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Let’s Not Ban A Show Before It’s Made

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Neil Calloway thinks we should wait to see if Confederate is any good… While some of us are intrigued and excited by the news this week that HBO are planning an alternate history series Confederate, which portrays a United States where slavery is still legal, there are others who have taken a different view. A […]

Countdown to Batman v Superman – Kingdom Come

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Ricky Church continues his countdown to Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice with Kingdom Come… One of the most exciting factors regarding Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice isn’t just the first meeting of Batman and Superman in live action, but their first meeting with Wonder Woman as well. Earlier this week I recommended Trinity, […]

The Five Best Moments from The Walking Dead Season 7 Episode 8 – ‘Hearts Still Beating’

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Ben Robins with the five best moments from the eighth episode of The Walking Dead season 7… It was finally mid-season finale week on our favourite post-apocalyptic zombie nightmare, and as those ultra-miserable season 7 dominoes finally started to tumble towards the yet another cliffhanger (albeit, rather slowly), we actually got a half-decent tease for […]

Marvel’s Murder Problem

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Ben Robins on Marvel’s murder problem… With the most celebrated of all the cinematic universes very much knocking on the door of its 10th anniversary, there’s all sorts of retrospective business going round. And something that becomes more and more glaringly obvious within the Marvel world, especially moving forward, is its attitude towards death. Well, […]

Ranking the Spider-Man movie villains

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Ricky Church ranks the Spider-Man movie villains… Since 2001, we have been given five Spider-Man films, with the sixth – Spider-Man: Homecoming – opening in cinemas this week. Through these movies we’ve been introduced to many villains from Spider-Man’s rogues gallery, some of whom are very well known, and some not quite as famous as the others. […]

Autumn 2017 Movie Preview

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Liam Hoofe looks ahead to some of the biggest releases in cinema over the coming months… With summer nearly in the rear-view mirror, it is time to look ahead to the autumn – or fall, to our friends on the other side of the Pond – and all the fantastic movies it has to offer […]

Suicide Squad 2 and X-Force get directors, first look at Black Panther villain, Thor: Ragnarok beats Justice League and more – Daily News Roundup

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IT’S GOOD TO BE BAD After a long search, the director for Suicide Squad 2 has been revealed as Gavin O’Connor (Warrior), who will also write the script. Other directors WB previously looked at include Mel Gibson and Jaume Collet-Serra. While original Suicide Squad writer and director David Ayer is not returning, he will be moving onto Gotham City Sirens, […]

Suicide Squad 2 shooting next year, cancelled Justice League movie details, INSANE Lego set and more – Daily News Roundup

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IT’S GOOD TO BE BAD AGAIN Although it was reportedly on the fast track over at Warner Bros., it looks like the sequel to Suicide Squad is some time off yet. According to Variety’s Justin Kroll, the director-less Suicide Squad 2 will go into production in fall 2018 following scheduling difficulties with Will Smith’s Aladdin and […]

Game of Thrones Season 8: What’s In Store for House Targaryen?

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Tony Black on what might be in store for House Targaryen in Game of Thrones season 8… Game of Thrones may have begun as the story of the Stark family but, without question, we’ve spent most of the time eagerly keeping up with the Targaryens. Thanks in no small part to Emilia Clarke’s career defining […]

The Fastest Superheroes On Screen

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We all love the idea of having a superpower and there’s a wide range of superhuman abilities seen on TV and on the big screen. One of the most notable powers depicted has to be super speed, donned by the likes of comic book characters from The Flash to Disney’s Dash from The Incredibles. To […]