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5 Actresses Who Should Play Captain Marvel

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Thomas Roach with five actresses who should play Captain Marvel… One of the projects Marvel is working on for Phase Three is Captain Marvel, which will be the studio’s first female led superhero movie. So far the new characters of Black Panther and Doctor Strange have been cast with Chadwick Boseman and Benedict Cumberbatch securing […]

The Evolution of James Bond

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Code number 007 is on the mind of fans as they anticipate the new Bond film which is expected to be released this year. Commander James Bond, CMG, RN is a fictional character created by novelist and British journalist Ian Fleming in 1952. Bond is a Secret Service agent who is a composite based upon […]

Do film critics matter?

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Anghus Houvouras on film critics and whether they matter… Do film critics matter? It’s an age-old question. One that has been asked as far back as the creation of the movie medium. Maxim Gorky, a Russian writer, was one of the first ever to pen a movie review after seeing a collection of Lumiere films […]

THEORY: Who Suicide Squad’s main villain really is…

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Oli Davis thinks he’s figured out who Suicide Squad’s main villain will be… Warner Brothers have now released three full length trailers for this August’s Suicide Squad, yet – because the teasers have focused on conveying a general sense of theme over any significant story elements – we’re still none the wiser on who or what the […]

Special Report – Flickering Myth Goes Tribal to Celebrate The Legend of Tarzan

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Waiting by the Woodland Ways standard in Oxfordshire, the air was still, peaceful, and atmospheric. Adam, one of the day’s instructors, brought me through the lone gate and away from any sign of civilisation – into the unknown. There were six of us in the group alongside the two instructors for the day. We were […]

Movember – Top 5 Movie Moustaches

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Luke Owen celebrates Movember… As a macho male man, I bloody love and appreciate a good moustache. Here in the UK, we use the month of November to help raise awareness of prostate cancer by growing our moustaches in the spirit of charity. It’s all for a great cause. But then we shave them off. […]

5 Actors Who Could Play The Joker

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Thomas Roach with five actors who could play The Joker in the new DC Universe… After Heath Ledger’s tragic death in 2008 and the actor leaving his mark on the world with his iconic portrayal of The Joker in The Dark Knight, the next person to take on the role of the Clown Prince of […]

Is Iron Man 4 closer than we think?

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Thomas Roach on whether Iron Man 4 is closer than we think… A few days ago Robert Downey Jr. took to his Facebook page and teased us with Iron Man 4. With Phase Three having been announced a few months back there was no sign of a fourth Iron Man movie, but it was revealed […]

Why don’t they just make a Doctor Doom movie instead?

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Anghus Houvouras on how to fix the Fantastic Four franchise… Fantastic Four is one of those cinematic enigmas. A concept that’s been around almost as long as Marvel Comics. A well-known, well established group of characters that are high on recognition factor but low on the public’s interest level. We’ve suffered through four terrible Fantastic […]

Is Box Office More Important Than a Film’s Critical Success?

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Samuel Brace on whether box office is more important than critical success… How should we measure a film’s success? The metric we use to determine whether or not the latest feature film has reached heights high enough to warrant being labelled successful, seems to be up for a rather heated debate. Is a film’s worth […]