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4 Great Films About Space Exploration To Mark 50 Years Since The Moon Landing

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Graeme Robertson celebrates the 50th anniversary of the moon landing with four great films about space exploration… On July 20th 1969, Neil Armstrong made history. After years of careful preparation, unfortunate setbacks, heartbreaking personal losses and fierce competition from Cold War rivals, Armstrong fulfilled humanity’s dream by becoming the first person to set foot on […]

What’s Next For The MCU? Phase Four and Beyond

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Eammon Jacobs on what comes next for the MCU in Phase Four and beyond… With Avengers: Endgame bringing the curtain down on The Infinity Saga and Spider-Man: Far From Home serving as the conclusion of Phase Three, Marvel are shifting their focus to newer heroes as we move into Phase Four, which promises to be […]

5 Best Moments From AEW’s Fight For The Fallen

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EJ Moreno with the five best moments from AEW’s Fight For the Fallen… Another All Elite Wrestling event in the book, and it’s another enjoyable entry for the new wrestling promotion. Fight For The Fallen comes about a month before their big show, ALL OUT, and they didn’t waste any time building towards it. Check […]

Ranking The Best American Horror Story Characters

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EJ Moreno on American Horror Story’s best characters… If any show prides itself on having memorable characters, American Horror Story will take that crown. The anthology show switches out characters and stories each season, delivering iconic heroes and villains as much as they do shocking storylines. One of the more exciting factors though is some […]

Is Inclusion Enough? What the MCU can learn from Joss Whedon’s Angel

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Christian Jimenez on what Marvel can learn from Joss Whedon’s Angel… Spider-Man: Far From Home represents the official end of Phase Three of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It also coincides on a curious beginning and end. In Avengers: Endgame, Marvel finally introduced an openly gay character onscreen, and Marvel President Kevin Feige and film producer […]

4 Things Disney Has Got So Right with Star Wars

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Samuel Brace on four things that Disney has got so right with Star Wars… Navigating the toxic pages of the internet can open oneself up to a host of narratives that are infuriatingly mendacious. This is, after all, a place where dwellers operate routinely in schadenfreude and where negativity rules the day. It’s hard not […]

5 Things We Want To See From Daredevil Season 3

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Samuel Brace with 5 things we want to see from Daredevil season 3… Daredevil has been an unequivocal success. The once forgotten blind vigilante has quickly become a house hold name, turning a second string hero into a true fan favourite thanks to the quite remarkable Netflix series. Capitalising on our so desperate urge to […]

Maybe they shouldn’t have brought back Han, Luke & Leia to Star Wars

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Anghus Houvouras on whether Lucasfilm should have kept Han, Luke and Leia out of the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy… There are times where I feel like Star Wars has become my white whale. At some point in my life I marveled at its magnificence, but now I’ve become embittered by its existence which continues to […]

Do Kaiju movies need human characters?

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Anghus Houvouras on kaiju movies and whether they need human characters… I love a good monster movie. They can, on occasion, still produce some of the childhood joy of watching massive creatures stomping on skyscrapers and battling one another to determine hierarchical dominance. All Kaiju movies deal with the same problem: the movie has to […]

Same-er Things: Yesterday, Stranger Things and the painful lack of originality in Hollywood

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Anghus Houvouras on Hollywood’s lack of originality… I’m not sure if I can convey the cringe-inducing feeling I get while watching any of the marketing for the new film Yesterday. As soon as the voice over establishing the basic premise of the movie is spoken, my brain begins to boil. “In a world where only […]