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Interview: Ridley Scott talks streaming services, says “cinema is mainly pretty bad”

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Ridley Scott is currently producing a new show for the BBC called Taboo, which stars Tom Hardy and is set to get underway this coming weekend. During the press junket we spoke to the filmmaker about how television is now viewed with streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime. Scott stated that he thinks these […]

Exclusive Interview – James Iha Talks Composing James Franco’s Mother, May I Sleep With Danger? & More

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Flickering Myth chats with James Iha about composing the score for James Franco’s Mother, May I Sleep With Danger? and more… After being in the Smashing Pumpkins for so long how did you originally get into film/TV scoring? I was in the Smashing Pumpkins for 12 years and actually recently did some shows with them. […]

Do we really need a Deadpool movie?

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Anghus Houvouras on whether we really need a Deadpool movie… “Ryan Reynolds should play Deadpool.” I’ve been hearing this armchair casting presented online for what seems like a decade. What every comic fan claims to be ‘the perfect casting’. A character that has a huge presence in the comic book community. Certainly not a marquee […]

Why 1996 was the Most Important Year in Hollywood

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This week, Neil Calloway argues that 1996 was a hugely influential year in cinema… This month sees the release of the long awaited Independence Day sequel. In many ways it seems like a long time since the original came out; the film industry has moved on a lot, and there is no way that a […]

8 killer cues from Cliff Martinez’s The Neon Demon soundtrack

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Sean Wilson takes a closer look at the latest captivating collaboration between director Nicolas Winding Refn and composer Cliff Martinez… Filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn doesn’t court controversy and outrage so much as revel in it, and his latest hallucinatory nightmare The Neon Demon is no exception. A surrealistic and increasingly shocking tale of the fashion […]

Just Add Batman: The key ingredient to the DC Cinematic Universe

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Anghus Houvouras on Warner Bros.’ key ingredient to the DC Cinematic Universe… Warner Bros. has found themselves in an indefensible position ever since Marvel Studios entered the game and schooled them on the art of the cinematic universe. They’re an easy punching bag these days, seeing as Marvel game them a three decade head start […]

Would it be wise to split Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice?

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Thomas Roach on whether it would be wise to split Batman v Superman into two movies… A few days ago an image arrived online which suggested that there are plans to split the upcoming Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice into two movies – Part One being called Enter the Knight, which would be released […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #78 – Flying Shark

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With Ultimate’s Atic Atac, which was the last game looked at in the chart, our fortunes are continuing to run high as swooping in from Firebird at Number #78 is Flying Shark, the Taito coin-op classic from 1987. This is our second game in the countdown from Firebird so far – the first being Gyron – […]

The Callow Way – Why the Sony hack is hilarious but depressing

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Neil Calloway is amused but disappointed by the release of emails from Sony… It’s an old adage that show business is High School with money, and the release of emails that followed the hacking of Sony Pictures seems to prove it’s just like Mean Girls or Heathers, but where people earn $3 million dollar salaries […]