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Are we drowning in nostalgia?

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Anghus Houvouras on whether we’re drowning in nostalgia… Yes. We absolutely are. There’s the short version for anyone who doesn’t feel like putting any additional thought into the subject. I’m nothing if not considerate. We are currently adrift in a sea of the familiar. Living in an era of entertainment avarice where our fondest wishes […]

The Decline Of British TV

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This week, Neil Calloway looks at the state of TV coming from the UK at the moment… This week, Jane Lush, the new head of BAFTA, accused British TV companies of losing their nerve and subjecting viewers to a tsunami of nostalgia. Quite a brave move from someone whose job it is to promote British […]

The Man Creating Retro VHS Covers For Your Favourite Films

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Flickering Myth caught up with the man creating retro VHS covers for your favourite films… The digital age is fantastic. High-speed broadband, data burning and e-mail has revolutionised the film industry dramatically. Now, trailers can appear on a Twitter post, full-length films can be downloaded in a matter of minutes and interviews of our favourite […]

Interview: Paul Mormando on Bound By Debt

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Marc Cardenas chats with Bound by Debt producer and star Paul Mormando… Paul Mormando, a martial arts veteran known as “Mr. Karate USA” and for pioneering the Cha Ki Do style along with the Real Life Defense System, has since crossed over to the world of action films, starring in 2013’s indie actioner Double Fist, […]

Good Concept, Bad Delivery

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Tom Jolliffe takes a look at when good concepts are badly executed… Occasionally you’ll see a film or a TV show and you wonder why they bothered at all. Everything goes wrong. Sometimes it starts from the very concept. In the case of remakes for example, you know right off the bat that some films […]

Interview – Greg Carpenter on The British Invasion: Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison and the Invention of the Modern Comic Book Writer

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Tony Black talks exclusively to Greg Carpenter, writer of The British Invasion: Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison and the Invention of the Modern Comic Book Writer (read our review here), about his book and the comic-book industry past, present and future… What served as the inspiration for writing a book about Moore, Gaiman & […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #1 – Deathcase

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Well this is it!  We turn off Rebelstar and load up the final game in the Your Sinclair Top 100.  It’s been over three months but finally we get to see what the greatest ZX Spectrum* magazine believed was the ultimate title in the Spectrum’s history.  At No.#1 we have Deathcase from Micromega! (*probably) It was […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #5 – Head over Heels

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After well and truly informing the Bydo Empire where they can put their invasion plan yesterday in R-Type, we decide on staying in the black void that our ancestors so imaginatively called,”Space” for our next game in the Your Sinclair Top 100.  Number Five is another one from Ocean Software and bizarrely it involves the […]