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The 80s Movie Guide For The New Parent

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Tom Jolliffe with the 80s movie guide for the new parent… Last December I welcomed my baby daughter into the world. It was a momentous day. My first, and like all new parents who find the weight of responsibility fall into their lap after 9 months of increasing inevitability, I suddenly realised I had absolutely […]

Interview: Directors Kristoffer Nyholm and Anders Engström on Taboo

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Thomas Roach chats with directors Kristoffer Nyholm and Anders Engström about Taboo… Back in November, we had the opportunity to sit down and talk to the directors of the new show Taboo, Kristoffer Nyholm (who directed episodes 1-4) and Anders Engström (who directed episodes 5-8). Speaking with Kristoffer Nyholm, he revealed what attracted him to the project. […]

Interview: Tom Hardy and Chips Hardy talk Taboo

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Thomas Roach chats with Tom Hardy and Chips Hardy about Taboo… The new BBC series Taboo gets underway this weekend, and we caught up with the show’s creators Tom and Chips Hardy at the press junket, where they revealed that they have been working on the project for the last few years, and the initial idea […]

Interview: Steven Knight on Taboo

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Thomas Roach chats with Steven Knight about his new series Taboo starring Tom Hardy… Back in November, we had the opportunity to sit down and talk to Steven Knight about his new show Taboo, which features Tom Hardy in the lead role. When initially meeting Hardy to discuss writing Taboo, Knight took the opportunity to get […]

What the hell is going on with The Dark Tower movie?

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Samuel Brace is starting to get a little concerned about The Dark Tower… The Dark Tower adaptation currently set for release this summer seems to be in big trouble. We are months from release and there’s no trailer, the film has recently been delayed, and now reshoots are taking place. None of this looks good […]

Ranking the Marvel Cinematic Universe (2016 Edition)

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Flickering Myth ranks the Marvel Cinematic Universe… Kicking off back in 2008, the Marvel Cinematic Universe now contains a whopping fourteen movies, two TV shows and three Netflix series with more coming our way next year. We’ve seen the formation of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, the fall of S.H.I.E.L.D., the rise of Ultron and the introduction […]

Revisiting Sonic the Hedgehog

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Andy O’Flaherty takes a look back at the origins of Sega’s iconic mascot… Sonic the Hedgehog.  Now there’s a name that stretches far beyond the realms of the video game medium.  I guarantee that a large percentage of even non-video game players would instantly recognise him on sight.  Indeed, even my 3 year old daughter, who […]

15 Box Office Flops of 2016

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Luke Owen charts some of the box office flops 2016… Movie screenings were up, but the box office figures for 2016 are down on last year. Granted, we didn’t see a release like Star Wars: The Force Awakens (which grossed $1 billion domestically and $2 billion worldwide), but big titles like Batman v Superman: Dawn […]

Will Artificial Intelligence Save The Franchise Film?

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Neil Calloway wonders whether we’ll see the end of actors… James Gunn’s assertion that Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 will set the stage for the next twenty years of MCU films is intriguing, to say the least. It’s hard to imagine the MCU lasting that long, for a start; I doubt Robert Downey Jr. […]