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Exclusive Interview – Tate Taylor talks The Girl on The Train, casting Emily Blunt and flirtations with Marvel

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With the eagerly anticipated released of The Girl on the Train released later this week, Flickering Myth’s roving reporter Scott J. Davis sat down to chat with the film’s director Tate Taylor, who discussed the adaptation, the re-location of the story, casting and those Marvel rumours… The book has only been out for over a year, […]

The Universal Soldier film that foreshadows Donald Trump’s rise to power

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Tom Jolliffe on the Universal Soldier film that foreshadows Donald Trump’s rise to power… In case you haven’t noticed there’s an election race going on in America right now. Megalomaniacal business mogul, Donald Trump is head to head with former First Lady, Hillary Clinton. As for the general movie going public, I’d wager only a […]

The Week in Star Wars – Force Friday toy images, Warwick Davis set for Episode VIII, more Star Wars films confirmed

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Your weekend edition of The Week in Star Wars sees LOADS of promotional images from toys being released from Force Friday, a returning actor from the original trilogy, more Star Wars films on the way and more… Let’s kick things off with the latest updates from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and thanks to the […]

Luke Cage: Early Reaction to the Show’s Beginning

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Samuel Brace on Marvel’s Luke Cage… The imperative is on us to grade these things on their own merit, against a defined metric of excellence, an understood truth of quality. We know what is good and what is not. But with these Netflix Marvel shows, it’s impossible to not compare one to the others. Sure, […]

The Week in Spandex – Doctor Strange marketing blitz, new Black Panther villain, Tarantino on Luke Cage, Batman movie “a year and a half out”

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In this edition of The Week in Spandex, we look at Doctor Strange, Avengers: Infinity War, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Black Panther, Captain America: Civil War, Thor: Ragnarok, Luke Cage, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Agent Carter, Batman, Justice League, Suicide Squad, The Flash, Wonder Woman, Supegirl, The Flash, Arrow, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Gotham, Jupiter’s Legacy, Ninjak, Bloodshot, […]

Why is everyone so upset about the live-action Lion King remake?

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Luke Owen looks at the backlash to Disney’s live-action Lion King remake… Since Tim Burton re-imagined Alice in Wonderland in a live-action format in 2010 to an incredible box office return (the film earned over $1 billion), Disney have their new mission statement: re-telling animated classics for a new generation in live-action. This success continued with […]

Exclusive Interview: Asa Butterfield talks Tim Burton, Eva Green and superheroes

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In the second of our exclusive interviews with some of the cast of Tim Burton’s new film, Miss Peregrine’s School for Peculiar Children, Flickering Myth’s Scott J. Davis sits down with Asa Butterfield to talk about the film, working with Tim Burton and all that Spider-Man talk… When did you first hear about the film? […]

Exclusive Interview: Ella Purnell talks Miss Peregrine, her love of all things Tim Burton and working with her friend Asa Butterfield

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With Miss Peregrine’s School for Peculiar Children out in UK cinemas this week, Flickering Myth’s roving reporter Scott J. Davis was able to sit down with some of the cast to chat about the film. In the first of two exclusive interviews, he chats to star Ella Purnell about the film, working with Tim Burton and […]