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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 […]

Why Rick and Morty is the best animated series ever

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Anghus Houvouras on Rick and Morty…What are the best animated series ever produced? It’s something I’m going to explore in my next column. Animation is such an exciting medium with so much untapped potential. Probably because it wasn’t taken seriously for so many years, written off as a form of storytelling for children. Even after […]

Star Wars on the Small Screen – Ewoks: The Battle For Endor (1985)

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Continuing our countdown to The Mandalorian by revisiting Lucasfilm’s early Star Wars television output, we turn our attention to the Ewoks’ second TV movie The Battle for Endor… Although George Lucas’ 1984 television special Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure had met with general disregard from critics, ratings for the feature were impressive enough for […]

Interview with comic book writer Austin Allen Hamblin

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Austin Allen Hamblin is an up and coming comic book writer from small town Iowa. Though only 21 years of age he already has 14 published credits in comic books. He loves to write sci-fi, horror, and fantasy comics. Austin loves comic books, professional wrestling, anime, writing, rock music, and power rangers.  He also already […]

Free Critics From Disney (Or How I Should Learn to Stop Worrying About Marvel)

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Tony Black on the conspiracy theory that Disney is paying critics to attack non-Marvel superhero movies…In what could be the most ludicrous movie news this year, and possibly the most ridiculous Change.org petition yet, a group of frustrated fans appear to have fired the first salvo in a war against critics they believe Disney are […]