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The Outsider’s Opinion: Who Can Play the New Doctor Who?

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Tom Jolliffe with an outsider’s opinion on who could play the next Doctor in Doctor Who… There’s a certain level of fandom reserved for a select type of film or TV show. Think of Trekkies, or Star Wars nuts, or Adam Sandler fans…okay, forget Adam Sandler, but as well as those who know the exact […]

Why Harley Quinn is a far more dynamic character than the Joker

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Anghus Houvouras on why Harley Quinn is a far more dynamic character than the Joker… The Joker. The most iconic comic book villain in the history of the medium. The go to villain when writers are creating an epic Batman pitch. The scene stealing comic book character that every legitimate method actor wants to play. […]

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them – IMAX Preview Report

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With Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them set for release on Friday November 18th, we were were given a chance to preview some never-before-seen footage of the film and listen to a Q&A with the film’s cast and crew. Here’s Eric Bay-Andersen’s report… On 13th October at the IMAX in Leicester Square, Edith Bowman […]

Why Batman?

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Anghus Houvouras on The Dark Knight… Yesterday was Batman Day, an annual celebration of the Caped Crusader allowing the world to pay homage to the world’s most popular superhero. How did that happen? It seems like such a strange question to ask as we celebrate three-quarters of a century of the character who would come […]

3 Ways DC Can Beat Marvel – Hint: Don’t Be Marvel

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Samuel Brace with three ways that DC can beat Marvel… 1) Know Your Strengths This would seem obvious, and it is, just not to DC. They know good and well what they have going for them and just as importantly, what they do not, but instead they are going for what they think everyone wants, […]

Trends and the Lack of Originality in Hollywood

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Eric Bay-Andersen on trends and the lack of originality in Hollywood… At the beginning of this year I went to the cinema and saw a preview of all the big films coming out in 2016, and it really depressed me because almost every upcoming ‘event’ film was a sequel, a re-boot, or a prequel to […]

The Flickering Myth Reaction to the Star Wars: The Last Jedi trailer

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The Flickering Myth writing team share their thoughts on the new trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi… Last night (or in the early hours of this morning, for those of us in the UK), Disney and Lucasfilm unleashed the second trailer for December’s massively-anticipated Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Despite Rian Johnson’s recommendation that […]

Why Are Film Sets Increasingly Troubled Places?

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This week, Neil Calloway looks at why franchise movies seem to spawn arguments between film-makers and studios… Rumours of a troubled production – and two differing cuts – of Suicide Squad add to a growing list of films that appear to have led to arguments and disagreements between the creative teams behind them and the […]