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5 Alternatives to Netflix

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Tony Black with five alternatives to Netflix… Remember the days when to watch a movie you either had to trek over to the multiplex or wait almost a year for a VHS or DVD release? Oh, how times have changed. With the advent of smartphones and tablets, you can now stream movies from anywhere on […]

Exclusive interviews with Captain America: Civil War co-director Anthony Russo and executive producer Nate Moore

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We’ve already brought you our highlight video from this week’s Captain America: Civil War European premiere [watch it here], and now we’ve posted two exclusive interviews from the red carpet as Scott Davis chats to co-director Anthony Russo and executive producer Nate Moore; check them out here… SEE ALSO: Read our ★★★★ review of Captain […]

Does It Hold Up? Avengers: Age of Ultron – One Year On

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Tony Black revisits Avengers: Age of Ultron one year on to see how it holds up… One of my main outlets is podcasting, and recently I asked online if anyone would like to do a speculative episode of my film show in which we ‘fix’ a broken movie, discussing why it failed and how we […]

Defending The Amazing Spider-Man

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As the wall-crawler prepares to make his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut in Captain America: Civil War, Henry Bevan defends 2012’s The Amazing Spider-Man… A child is trapped in a car that is hanging off a bridge. The hero swings down, takes off his mask and reassures the trapped child that everything is going to be […]

The Huntsman’s Winter War: Why the Box Office Defeated Him

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Tony Black on the box office failure of The Huntsman: Winter’s War… So it seems we have the first confirmed box office dud of 2016: The Huntsman’s Winter War, positioned as a potential new fantasy franchise under the Universal banner. It was confirmed in the Guardian yesterday that Universal, who broke box office records last […]

Movies Marvel Should Make: Vision & The Scarlet Witch

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Anghus Houvouras would like to see Marvel making a Vision and Scarlet Witch movie… Earlier this week I talked at length about why The Inhumans was possibly pulled from the Marvel Movie slate. While I have nothing against The Inhumans, it was the Marvel movie I was the least interested in seeing brought to life. […]

Oh, the Inhumanity: Why Marvel needs to bury the Inhumans

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Anghus Houvouras on why Marvel need to bury the Inhumans… Back when Marvel was first drawing up battle plans for their eventual takeover of blockbuster cinema, there were a few weapons in their arsenal that seemed unconventional in their selection. No one was surprised to see Captain America: The Winter Soldier or Iron Man 3, […]

Chris Evans: “If the Avengers were real, I’d be on Team Iron Man”

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With the release of Marvel’s latest superhero extravaganza Captain America: Civil War just days away (you can listen to our spoiler-free early verdict here), Flickering Myth has been gearing up to the film’s release by attending the UK press conference in London earlier today. Scott J. Davis was lucky enough to be in attendance at today’s […]

Going Against the Critical Grain: When Expressing An Opinion Takes Bravery

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Sean Wilson explores the difficulties writers face when their opinion flies in the face of the popular consensus… Film journalists such as myself frequently get slammed for daring to criticise a movie we hated: we didn’t make it, we had no idea of the stress involved in organising a small army of cast and technicians […]