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The Best TV Characters of 2018

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Samuel Brace on the best TV characters of 2018… Continuing our countdown to 2018’s end, and following on from last week’s roundup of ‘The best TV moments of 2018’, today we are going to dive into the best characters that have populated the small screen this calendar year, highlighting a selection of vibrant, complex characters […]

Commander-in-Chief: The Top 10 Fictional US Presidents

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Cameron Frew on the top 10 fictional US presidents… Adam McKay’s take on the cataclysmic career of former Vice President to George Dubya Bush, Dick Cheney, in Vice, arrives in U.S. theaters today. The Presidency is a reoccurring casting across film; sometimes they’re biopic or factual works, which often give way to some fabulous performances […]

Is Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse the best comic book movie ever?

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Anghus Houvouras on Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse… If you would have told me at the start of 2018 that the most entertaining, most perfectly realized comic book movie would be released, I probably would have agreed with you. If you told me it was going to be an animated film from Sony, I probably would […]

The Worst Movie Action Sequences of 2018

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Harrison Abbott on the worst movie action sequences of 2018… With the imminent arrival of January 1st, it’s worth reflecting on all the different ways that we, as a society, celebrate the New Year. Some usher in the commencement of a fresh calendar by participating in lively social events and extravagant parties. Others indulge in […]

Ranking All of 2018’s Superhero Movies

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Liam Hoofe rounds up what has been an exceptional year for the superhero genre… By this point, saying that a year is a marquee year for superhero films feels a little redundant. The genre has established itself as the most financially bankable in all of cinema, and it feels as though barely a month goes […]

Why Better Call Saul is quickly surpassing the quality of Breaking Bad

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George Chrysostomou on Better Call Saul… We are only a few months removed from the finale of Better Call Saul and yet were are already thinking about other spin-offs based on the AMC hit show Breaking Bad, with the announcement of the Jesse Pinkman movie, based on the events following the final Walter White episodes. As we […]

Top 10 WWE Main Roster Superstars of 2018

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Liam Hoofe rounds up the top 10 WWE stars of 2018… It’s been an incredibly interesting year to be a WWE fan. Perhaps more than any other year in recent memory, there has been some serious highs and lows for the company, with Daniel Bryan’s return to the ring being a serious high, while Roman […]

My Favourite Christmas Movie – Love Actually

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The Flickering Myth writing team count down to Christmas by discussing their favourite festive movies; next up is Robert D. Spake with Love Actually… It’s been a tradition for a number of years now that I watch Love, Actually every Christmas Eve. It’s not just a film about Christmas, but about love as well, and […]

My Favourite Christmas Movie – Rise of the Guardians

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The Flickering Myth writing team countdown to Christmas by discussing their favourite festive movies; next up is Jackson Ball with Rise of the Guardians… Christmas can be a dreadfully nostalgic beast: it’s always better when you’re small, the old songs are the best and a Christmas film isn’t a ‘classic’ unless it predates the 90’s. It […]