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Why are the stakes in Marvel movies so low?

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Anghus Houvouras on the low stakes in Marvel movies… There are so many things the Marvel movies have done right. They’ve launched a new era of studio blockbusters, faithfully adapted some of their most exciting characters with care, and delivered consistently entertaining feature films that, for the most part, are well worth the price of […]

Does It Hold Up? Avengers: Age of Ultron – One Year On

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Tony Black revisits Avengers: Age of Ultron one year on to see how it holds up… One of my main outlets is podcasting, and recently I asked online if anyone would like to do a speculative episode of my film show in which we ‘fix’ a broken movie, discussing why it failed and how we […]

Exclusive interview with Eye in the Sky director Gavin Hood

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With modern warfare thriller Eye in the Sky out now in cinemas [read our reviews here and here], Scott J. Davis sat down with director Gavin Hood to discuss the film. Eye in the Sky features a stellar cast including Helen Mirren (Woman In Gold), Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad) and the late Alan Rickman (A Little Chaos), […]

How to turn Green Lantern into a mega huge multi-film franchise

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Anghus Houvouras on how to turn Green Lantern into a mega huge multi-film franchise… There are a handful of comic book adaptations that make fans of the source material cringe. Like when Joel Schumacher gave us bat-nipples and bat-butt shots in Batman Forever. Or when Zack Snyder transformed the world’s most popular hero into a […]

Star Trek: Why I’m with Takei, not Pegg, over Sulu

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Before we get started, let’s agree on one thing here: an openly gay main character on modern Star Trek is a great thing. It should have been included as part of Gene Roddenberry’s forward thinking, utopian vision for the 23rd century, but that was the 60’s and, well, the general message then was ‘straight people […]

You Should Be Watching… Casual

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Tony Black on why you should be watching Casual… Be honest, you’ve done online dating, haven’t you? I bet you have. I certainly have, infact I was lucky enough to meet the woman I’ve been with for over a year and will likely spend the rest of my life with via online dating. I bet […]

24 Legacy: Could Jack Bauer be its finest hour?

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Tony Black on 24: Legacy… If you were to name a TV character who helped define modern pop culture in the last decade or so, who would you say? Walter White maybe? Tony Soprano? All great shouts. Mine would be Jack Bauer. Oops sorry, JACK BAUER!!!!!! The hero of long running, real time action series […]

Game of Thrones: The Book Plots Lost on the Show

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Tony Black on the book plots lost in Game of Thrones… And so it begins, the great post-Game of Thrones withdrawal period, and it’s especially potent this year given how season six was arguably one of the most exciting seasons David Benioff & D.B. Weiss have ever given us. Looking ahead to the final (or […]

Game of Thrones: What Sam Tarly may find at the Citadel

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Tony Black on what Samwell Tarley may find at the Citadel when Game of Thrones returns… You almost forgot about good old Samwell Tarly, didn’t you? Be honest. Season six of Game of Thrones has been stocked so heavy with major plot developments, changing geopolitical situations and lots and lots of characters meeting untimely ends, that […]