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Is Cinema Really Dead If Scorsese Says It Is?

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Henry Bevan on whether cinema is really dead…The ‘cinema is dead’ narrative has gone around for a while. It is normally spouted by some blogger who wants to get across their “hot take”. But, sometimes, someone of note joins in, and as 2016 came to a close, a director trifecta chimed in — Martin Scorsese, […]

Interview – Michael Ramova, director of the NES Friday the 13th fan film

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Jordan Jones chats with Michael Ramova, director of the NES Friday the 13th fan film…Nostalgia is a powerful force. It can paint vivid memories of the most bizarre, or mundane things in our lives. As gamers, and cinephiles, we tend to have a soft-spot for anything retro. Especially when it comes to horror. Bad, or […]

Exclusive Interview: Director Barry Jenkins on Moonlight

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Freda Cooper talks to director Barry Jenkins about the Oscar-nominated Moonlight…A portrait of African American life and a meditation on family, friendship and identity, Moonlight chronicles the life of a young black man as he grows up in a rough part of Miami.  For its director, Barry Jenkins, it was also a personal project, as […]

Exclusive Interview – Composer Michael Levine on creating Resident Evil 7: Biohazard’s famous theme ‘Go Tell Aunt Rhody’

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We chat with Michael Levine about his work on Resident Evil: Biohazard…Composer Michael Levine is no amateur when given the task of creating an iconic theme for a project. Levine is the man responsible for creating the famous Kit Kat ‘Gimme A Break’ jingle that every person with a TV has heard. More recently he […]

Exclusive Interview: Director Benjamin Ree on Magnus, his documentary about the World Chess Champion

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Norway’s Magnus Carlsen celebrated his 26th birthday this year by retaining his World Chess Champion title for the second successive time.  Freda Cooper talked to Benjamin Ree, who directed the recent documentary about the man known as “the Mozart of chess.”…Magnus Carlsen recently retained his World Chess Champion title for the second time running.  Have you spoken […]

Interview: Ganzeer on The Solar Grid

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Mark Allen chats to Ganzeer about The Solar Grid…Writer/artist Ganzeer’s first full-length comics project is certainly an ambitious one. His nine-part series The Solar Grid is a sprawling socio-political science fiction story that spans centuries of future history and interplanetary distances, featuring a diverse array of characters each struggling with the state of the world in […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #2 – Rebelstar

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Hoping that we’ll never see a purple courtyard in our lives again, we wave goodbye to All or Nothing and beam out of that world, arriving somewhere very different in our next helping within the Your Sinclair Top 100.  No.#2 is a game that is still causing “Gaming Wave Ripples” to this day, through both […]

How X-Men: Days of Future Past derailed the X-Men franchise

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Anthony Stokes on why X-Men: Days of Future Past has derailed the X-Men franchise…I grew up with the X-Men franchise, and found myself getting less and less invested with every movie. They haven’t aged well, and there’s something a bit dull about some of the drama, especially that centered around Jean Grey, Wolverine, and Cyclops.  […]

30 Things We Learned About the Justice League Movie

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Tai Freligh with 30 things we learned about the Justice League movie…News about Zack Snyder’s follow up to Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice had been few and far between in terms of photos, logos, plot descriptions, etc.  Then late last week the news leaked that several reporters were heading to London to do a […]