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Why Guardians of the Galaxy was such a massive financial success

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Anthony Stokes on why Guardians of the Galaxy was such a massive financial success… As it stands now, Guardians of the Galaxy has $770 million dollars worldwide, passing every other comic book movie released this year, and second only Transformers: Age of Extinction in the highest-earning movies of the year. I did predict Guardians having […]

Batman Day: Don’t Push The Bat-Family To The Side

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Eammon Jacobs on the Bat-Family… Batman and Robin; the dynamic duo. When Dick Grayson was a created as a way of getting younger children to read Detective Comics in 1940, Batman creators Bill Finger and Bob Kane had no idea the legacy they had spawned; it was one that would rival the world’s greatest detective […]

The Batman Films That Were Never Made

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Neil Calloway looks at Batman movies that were planned but never shot… If you are over 30, by the end of this month you will have seen five actors play Batman on the big screen. That might seem like a lot, but it’s entirely possible that there could have been even more Batman movies down […]

Disney’s Ongoing Fight To Be Feminist

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Kate Harrold on Disney’s ongoing fight to be feminist… The Disney Princess is an iconic film archetype and one that has been around since Snow White and the Seven Dwarves premiered in 1938 and it doesn’t seem to be a figure fading from our cultural canon anytime soon. With reinvention being a continuous process, the […]

The Most Disappointing: Stranger Things Season 3

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Anghus Houvouras shares his disappointment with Stranger Things season 3… Sometimes it’s difficult to find the words to describe what particular elements of a creative endeavor felt disappointing. Other times it’s incredibly easy. The third season of Stranger Things was a depressing mess which exposes the flimsy foundation the series is built upon which includes […]

The Flickering Myth Reaction to Robert Pattinson’s casting as The Batman

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The Flickering Myth writing team share their thoughts on Robert Pattinson’s casting as the Dark Knight in The Batman… This past weekend it was confirmed that Warner Bros. and director Matt Reeves have selected Robert Pattinson as the man to succeed Ben Affleck and don the cape and cowl for 2021’s The Batman. And, much […]

Why are people getting so crazy about Joker?

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Anghus Houvouras on Joker… There’s one film right now that is generating a catastrophic level of buzz online. A movie that has some people ridiculously excited while others are working themselves up into a foaming frenzy on what the film could potentially represent. Based on early expectations, the movie looks to be a massive financial […]

The Most Disappointing: Fandom in the Social Media Age

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Anghus Houvouras on fandom in the age of social media… The internet has ruined everything. It has given us a window into the soul of humanity and the view is pretty damn depressing. Like all great technical innovations, people have found out how to exploit this potentially amazing resource into a method of control. Elections […]

The Flickering Myth Reaction to the final Joker trailer

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The Flickering Myth writing team share their thoughts on the new Joker trailer… This week, Warner Bros. and DC Films released the final trailer for Joker, director Todd Phillips’ upcoming standalone origin story for the Clown Prince of Crime and starring Joaquin Phoenix as the iconic comic book villain. The movie has been generating a […]