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Why Star Wars: The Last Jedi Has A Lot To Live Up To

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Neil Calloway on why the second films in Star Wars trilogies are the best… Unless you’ve been hiding out on Dagobah or in the Outer Rim Territories, you’ll be aware that Star Wars: The Last Jedi is released this week. It’s a Star Wars movie, so has a lot to live up to, but it’s […]

Why The VHS Tape Changed Films

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This week, Neil Calloway remembers the humble VHS tape with fondness… With VCRs no longer being produced, the death knell of videotapes has finally come. In reality, its heyday only lasted at most twenty years – from the 1980s to the year 2000, overtaken by DVDs, hard disc recorders, Blu-rays and now streaming services. VHS […]

Sherlock Series 4: Moriarty’s Return Theory

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Liam Hoofe with a theory on the Moriarty mystery in Sherlock… The Russian playwright Anton Chekhov once gave some simple advice about the construction of a narrative: if it is not essential, then do not put it there in the first place. This idea has become known as Chekhov’s Gun – simply put, if you […]

Martin Scorsese’s Lost Masterpiece: Remembering The King of Comedy

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With Silence getting the critics salivating, Sean Wilson examines what is possibly Martin Scorsese’s greatest – and almost certainly most underrated – film, The King of Comedy… Do portrayals of celebrity culture and fan worship get more lacerating and acute than 1983’s masterpiece The King of Comedy? Martin Scorsese’s follow-up to Raging Bull is quite […]

7 awe-inspiring tracks from David Arnold’s classic Independence Day score

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Ahead of the release of Independence Day: Resurgence, Sean Wilson remembers one of the first movie’s greatest assets in the form of David Arnold’s absurdly rousing and patriotic soundtrack… However long-overdue sci-fi sequel Independence Day: Resurgence turns out, it’ll be lacking the thunderous impact of David Arnold on soundtrack duties. The British composer reportedly wasn’t even […]

Terminator 2 at 25: Revisiting Cinema’s Greatest Sequel

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Edward Gardiner revisits Terminator 2: Judgment Day on its 25th anniversary… *Spoilers for the Terminator franchise There was a time, if you remember, when James Cameron wasn’t weirdly obsessed with those funny blue aliens over on Pandora. Back in the early ’90s, when Tarantino was paving his way into Hollywood and Spielberg was bringing dinosaurs back to life, Cameron […]

Not All Sequels Suck

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Helen Murdoch with ten sequels that are actually decent… 2016 has been hit and miss for sequels and reboots. So far we’ve had the dull Independence Day: Resurgence, the reboot of Ghostbusters, as well as the forgettable Now You See Me 2 and Bad Neighbours 2. Sitting through the latest Alice in Wonderland film was […]

Interview: Uncharted and Firefly composer Greg Edmonson on the art of the soundtrack

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Sean Wilson talks to the BAFTA-award-winning film, TV and video game composer about his celebrated soundtrack work… In today’s pop culture climate, no longer are composers limited to one genre or field of speciality. Increasingly our greatest musicians are diversifying across a host of different platforms, and one of the greatest is Greg Edmonson whose […]

Flickering Myth Film Class: Using Colour

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In this instalment of Flickering Myth’s Film Class, Tom Jolliffe looks at intentional use of colours in film… When it was discovered that film stock could have colour painted onto it, though painstaking and meticulous, it opened up a new dimension in cinema, previously locked into black, white and grey. It allowed a film-maker to […]