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The 4 Spider-Man Storylines We Need In the MCU

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Ben Robins on the 4 Spider-Man storylines we need in the MCU… With this month’s Spider-Man: Homecoming marking the third big screen incarnation of the famous wall-crawler in the 21st century alone, you’d think we’d be hard-pressed by this stage to find storylines that hadn’t already been adapted at least somewhere down the line. We’ve […]

Directorial Vision vs Crowd Pleasing

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Tom Jolliffe on directorial vision vs crowd pleasing… We’ve all done it in our lives. The crowd leans a certain way and we adhere to that. Maybe it was in school. Oasis vs Blur (yes, I’m old). The consensus is Oasis, so you put Oasis in your tape deck to please everyone. Secretly though you’re […]

Interview – David Bradley talks about his role as the First Doctor in Doctor Who “Twice Upon a Time”

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With the Doctor Who Christmas Special “Twice Upon a Time” now just a week away, here at Flickering Myth we’ve got interviews with David Bradley who plays the First Doctor, Mark Gatiss as The Captain and also Pearl Mackie who returns as the excellent Bill Potts, along with a few words from both Steven Moffat […]

Why 1980s Science Fiction Is Huge Right Now

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Neil Calloway looks at why dystopias from thirty years ago are the biggest influence on Hollywood… With a new Blade Runner movie opening to rave reviews, a new (and hopefully decent) Terminator film on the way, it looks like 80s science fiction is the way to go if you want to get a movie made […]

The Rise of the Stupid Smart Character, or Why Helmets Matter

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Henry Bevan on the rise of the stupid smart character… If you’ve been browsing this website over the last couple of days you will have noticed there has been a lot of Alien: Covenant content. We’ve published not one, not two but three reviews. We’ve written letters to David Fincher, we’ve talked about Ridley Scott, […]

Nine Actresses Who Could Play Batgirl in the DCEU

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Liam Hoofe takes a look at nine actresses who could play Batgirl in Joss Whedon’s upcoming DCEU movie…  Very little is currently known about the Batgirl movie. The DCEU project, to be directed by Joss Whedon, will reportedly take inspiration from the New 52 version of the character, and rumours have surfaced that it has become […]

6 Female-Led Superhero Movies We’d Like To See

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Ricky Church with six female-led superhero movies we’d like to see post-Wonder Woman… It’s probably an understatement at this point to say Wonder Woman has done exceedingly well since its release earlier this month. The film has become one of the summer’s biggest blockbusters and disproved the notion that female-driven superhero films do not sell. […]

New Justice League footage, Creed 2 director revealed, Michael Fassbender slams Assassin’s Creed and more – Daily News Roundup

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MORE JUSTICE After unveiling the final trailer for next month’s Justice League over the weekend, Warner Bros and DC Films released an alternate UK cut – which features more new footage from the hotly-anticipated superhero ensemble. Check it out here. THOR CONCEPTS Over to Marvel Studios for a brief moment, and visual development supervisor Andy Park took […]

Are franchise blockbusters too big to fail?

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Anghus Houvouras on whether franchise blockbusters are too big to fail… Sequels, prequels and reboots. Hollywood is in love with the familiar because more often than not it’s a safe bet. This year’s monumental blockbuster clusterfuck Justice League is proof of that. Can you think of a big studio film more maligned? More inherently flawed […]