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Rogue’s Gallery: Star Wars actor Ben Mendelsohn’s greatest villains

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With Rogue One: A Star Wars Story imminent, Sean Wilson explores the litany of memorable bad guys from Orson Krennic actor Ben Mendelsohn… There are many reasons to be intergalactically excited about the release of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, not least because it will reveal the events leading up to Darth Vader’s majestic […]

Why more franchises should embrace the Alien model

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Anghus Houvouras on why more franchises should embrace the Alien model… First off, let’s go ahead and address the giant-sized Space Jockey in the room: When referring to ‘The Alien model’, I’m taking about the original four films. I’m not talking about the ridiculous Alien vs. Predator duology or the beautifully rancid idiocy of Prometheus […]

Not The First Choice, But The Right Choice

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This week, Neil Calloway can’t imagine anyone else in La La Land… There’s a genre of fiction known as alternative history, where writers speculate on “what ifs?” of history. You want to see what would happen if South African Neo-Nazis went back in time to intervene in the American Civil War? You got it. Aliens […]

How Can A Successful Film End Up Losing Money?

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This week Neil Calloway looks at Hollywood Accounting… Earlier this week it was revealed that Harry Shearer  is suing Vivendi for his share of the profits from This Is Spinal Tap. Shearer – probably best known now for providing the voices for Mr Burns, Principal Skinner, Reverend Lovejoy and others on The Simpsons – played […]

Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson and other stars’ strange paths to fame

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With the upcoming Blu-ray and DVD release of Central Intelligence starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Kevin Hart, we take a look at a cluster of actors who didn’t take the normal path to stardom. Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson Hart’s co-star in Central Intelligence and all round big screen titan, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson started […]

Why won’t Marvel take their heroes seriously?

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Anghus Houvouras asks why Marvel won’t take their heroes seriously… Humor as a defense mechanism. It’s something that used to be reserved for certain characters in comic books and comic book movies. Robert Downey Jr. took inspiration for Mark Millar’s legendary Ultimates series and made Tony Stark a guy who didn’t take life too seriously. This […]

Fall TV’s Top 5 New Shows

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Rachel Bellwoar on Fall TV’s top five new shows… Due to how pilots are spaced out this fall, figuring out to the right time to launch a top five list gets complicated. Wait too long and you fall behind on shows that have started airing as early as August. Submit too early and newcomers like […]

Interview: Composer Kris Dirksen on creating the right score for Cinemax’s Quarry & Banshee

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We chat to Composer Kris Dirksen about creating the right score for Cinemax’s Quarry & Banshee… As with a lot of television shows, the score that accompanies it can easily make or break the show. The most recent example being Kyle Dixon & Michael Steins’ much buzzed about score to Netflix’s Stranger Things which has […]

Does every second movie need to be The Empire Strikes Back?

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Anghus Houvouras asks why every second movie needs to be The Empire Strikes Back… Is there anything worse than the widening pit of quicksand that nostalgia has become? It’s one thing when we’re constantly forced to deal with the ‘member berry’-centric society of fandom. My expectations of fans is lower that current metrics are able to […]