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Interview: How Gore Verbinski and Dane DeHaan turned their nightmares into A Cure For Wellness

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Dan Jolin chats with Gore Verbinski and Dane DeHaan about A Cure for Wellness… During the summer of 2015, while shooting A Cure for Wellness in Germany, Dane DeHaan went through what he describes as “my month of torture”. In the space of a few weeks, the then-29-year-old star of Chronicle and The Amazing Spider-Man […]

Hacksaw Ridge and our attitude towards violence

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Henry Bevan on Hacksaw Ridge and our attitude towards violence… A ultra-violent pacifist movie. That’s the oxymoron greeting you when you watch Hacksaw Ridge, Mel Gibson’s film about Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield), a conscientious objector involved in the Battle of Okinawa. The film is open to multiple readings. Some are obvious, with Doss’s comparison with […]

How to fix the X-Men Cinematic Universe

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Anghus Houvouras on how Fox can fix the X-Men: Cinematic Universe… Fox has been cultivating the X-Men cinematic universe for nearly two decades. It’s been that long since fans were first treated to Marvel’s most magnanimous mutants on the big screen. The first X-Men movie wasn’t perfect, but it was a solid first entry into […]

Mel Gibson Directing Suicide Squad 2? So Crazy It Might Just Work

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Anghus Houvouras on the possibility of Mel Gibson directing Suicide Squad 2… Recently I wrote a column about the inherent struggles that come with separating the art from the artist. Most of the time this isn’t a problem as even the most educated film fans probably don’t know the intimate personal details of the writers, […]

Oscars: What Should Have Won – Good Night, and Good Luck. for Best Picture over Crash

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Graeme Robertson on why Good Night, and Good Luck. should have won Best Picture at the 78th Academy Awards… The Oscars celebrating the best of 2005 are probably among the most controversial and divisive on record. For it was Paul Haggis’s race-based ensemble drama Crash that received the Best Picture trophy, beating the favourite to win […]

The Top 5 Sporting Documentaries

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Everybody loves a good documentary. But not everybody loves sport. However, a really good sport documentary will bridge this gap perfectly and before you know it you’ll feel like the biggest fan of [insert sport] there is and that you want to know every tiny detail of it. One of those is BEST (George Best […]

Is Finn from Star Wars a hero or a mentally imbalanced, disgruntled former employee?

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Anghus Houvouras on whether Star Wars’ Finn is a hero, or a mentally imbalanced, disgruntled former employee… If Star Wars: The Last Jedi has taught us anything, it’s that there are those who take the happenings of a galaxy far, far away a little too seriously. I didn’t like The Last Jedi. It was messy, […]

Exclusive Interview – Rebecca Ford of Digital Extremes talks Warframe: The War Within, developers and PC & Console differences

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Villordsutch talks with Rebecca Ford, ‎Live Operations & Community Producer at Digital Extremes, about Warframe: The War Within… Rebecca Ford is the Live Operations and Community Producer at Digital Extremes and with the recent release of the rather massive update for Warframe titled The War Within arriving on the PS4 and Xbox One, Villordsutch got the chance to speak with Rebecca […]

Why $1 Billion For Avengers: Infinity War Is Good Business

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Neil Calloway thinks the supersized budget for Avengers: Infinity War makes sense… With news this week that seems like confirmation that the nest two Avengers films, Infinity War and the so far unimaginatively titled Avengers 4 will have a budget of $1 billion, my first reaction was “I bet it doesn’t; it’s all part of […]