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VOD is Beating Cinema, and Maybe, Just Maybe, That’s a Good Thing

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Samuel Brace on the rise of VOD… Sometimes you have to go off the beaten path to find quality films these days. Gone is the time where you could solidly rely on what was top billed at your local cinema to be the cream of the crop. Those days are well and truly over. If you […]

Forget The BFG, Spielberg ain’t past it yet…

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Tony Black on what the future holds for Steven Spielberg following the box office disappointment of The BFG… This week, The BFG joined this year’s list of ‘illustrious’ flops, at least in the US where it tanked hard as it released off the back of Indepedence Day: Resurgence and the much more successful Finding Dory. […]

Video Games Are Valid Entertainment, Stop Trying to Make Them Into Films

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Samuel Brace calls for an end to video game adaptations… Name a good video game to movie adaptation. Go on, name one. Name one bona fide hit with both critics and fans that’s source was a video game. Coming up short? That’s okay, it was an impossible task. There are of course some that are […]

Interview: Michael Gross talks Tremors 5: Bloodlines

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Stu Greenfield chats with Michael Gross about Tremors 5… It has been 11 years since audiences were last exposed to the underground terror that is the Graboids. The cult franchise has so far delivered 4 films and an ill-fated TV series. Causing a whole generation of B-Movie fans to question whether or not it is […]

The Oscar Race or the Oscar Master Race: Sexism, Racism, and the All-White Award Show

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Anghus Houvouras on the Academy Awards and a lack of diversity… ‘Armchair quarterback’. It’s a popular phrase here in the United States, referring to those know-it-all fans who sit in their armchairs yelling at the screen during a football game. Some d-bag who is certain that he or she can make better decisions than the […]

Sundance 2015: Films to look out for at this year’s festival

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Scott Davis on films to look out for at Sundance 2015… It’s the most wonderful time of the year, when many of Hollywood’s big hitters gather together to be awarded a variety of different prices on the Awards circuit, culminating with the 87th Academy Awards on February 22nd. But on Thursday weekend in west USA […]

Star Trek: Beyond Political Correctness

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Anghus Houvouras on Sulu’s sexuality in Star Trek Beyond… “God save us from people who mean well.” – Virkram Seth Diversity has become such a buzz word and used so frequently that it has almost lost all value. All we hear about is the need for more diversity in entertainment, constantly berated with columns about Hollywood’s lack […]

Hail Hydra: Nick Spencer, Captain America, and the increasing reliance on shock value

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Anghus Houvouras on Nick Spencer, Captain America, and the increasing reliance on shock value… Hail Hydra. Two words that broke the internet last month after writer Nick Spencer debuted his epic new arc on Captain America. The reveal on the final page seemed to imply that Captain America has been a deep cover agent for […]

Exclusive interviews with Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg, Karl Urban and Justin Lin at the Star Trek Beyond London premiere

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The cast and crew of Star Trek Beyond beamed into London’s Leicester Square yesterday for the UK premiere of the sci-fi threequel, and Flickering Myth’s Scott Davis was on hand to chat with the stars on the white carpet. Check out our exclusive interviews with Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg, Karl Urban and director […]