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Why You Shouldn’t Care Where Kylo Ren’s Scar Is

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Neil Calloway takes aim at those getting worked up over a slight change in make up… I’m a huge Star Wars fan; I love the films, I’ve been known to defend elements of the prequels, and I’ll not really trust anyone who proudly boasts that they’ve never seen any of the films. Having said that, […]

Alternative Vader scene from Rogue One, Ewan McGregor on Obi-Wan, Deadpool and X-Force, Coming to America sequel – Daily News Roundup

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Rounding up yesterday’s big news stories… BE CAREFUL NOT TO CHOKE ON YOUR ASPIRATIONS Disney and Lucasfilm delivered one of – if not the – greatest Darth Vader moments with his final scene in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and screenwriter Gary Whitta has revealed that his original draft of the script featured an […]

Faster & Furiously: How Vin & the Family Owe an 80s & 90s Debt

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Tony Black on how Fast & Furious owes a debt to 80s and 90s action movies… You may have avoided the Fast & Furious franchise. I did, for ages. To me it was nothing more than ‘car porn’, full of slick machismo, bad dialogue and poorer plot choices. 2008’s semi-reboot Fast & Furious began a […]

Alan Menken: A Life in Disney

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As Beauty and the Beast shatters box office records worldwide, Sean Wilson looks back at the illustrious Disney career of its celebrated composer Alan Menken… Disney’s in-vogue trend of rebooting their animated classics shows no signs of abating, as their live-action take on 1991 masterpiece Beauty and the Beast waltzes onto screens. Starring Emma Watson […]

Marvel’s Iron Fist: A Reasonable Response to a Very Reasonable Show

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Samuel Brace on Marvel’s Iron Fist… Iron Fist is not good. That’s what you’ve been hearing in the build up to Netflix’s new Marvel series. You’ve been hearing that it is the first misfire from Marvel’s Netflix venture, a flop, a bag full of nothing good. Reviews have been indifferent to bad, its metacritic score […]

Is Disney’s Beauty and the Beast a misogynist horror story?

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Anghus Houvouras on Disney’s Beauty and the Beast… Walt Disney was a visionary who created the most powerful entertainment industry the world has ever known. Since its modest, hand-drawn origins, the company has worked its way into merchandise, theme parks, television, video games, and has spent untold billions for every major pop culture franchise they […]

Can we all just admit the Golden Globes are kind of terrible?

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Anghus Houvouras on the Golden Globe Awards… This headline feels redundant, as if it’s a deeply held belief by 88% of the civilized world. The other 12% are made up of the members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and people like my wife who enjoy watching the red carpet fashion on display no matter […]