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2015 Awards Race Update: Carol named Best Picture by New York Film Critics Circle

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Last night I jotted down some thoughts on the National Board of Review unexpectedly giving audience and critical darling Mad Max: Fury Road the top honor (alongside a look at the other categories and their respective winners), and now we have the New York Film Critics Circle getting in on the action. Following in line […]

Mad Max: Fury Road named 2015’s Best Film by National Board of Review

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If you hadn’t noticed, we are venturing into yet another Oscar season, as evident by the National Board of Review having handed out some awards. Some of the winners are no-brainers, but there are also a fair share of surprises in the mix. Best Film: Mad Max: Fury Road Best Director: Ridley Scott – The […]

Report from UK launch of Ash Vs Evil Dead, debuting on Virgin Media demand service tonight

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After making a big splash in the US on cable channel Starz, Ash vs. Evil Dead has been picked up by Virgin Media for their new on-demand service, debuting on Tuesday, December 1st! To celebrate the announcement and the airing of the show, Senior Staff Writer Scott J. Davis had the chance to see the […]

Mega Drive Turns 25 – The 16 Best Sega Mega Drive/Genesis Games

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Luke Owen celebrates an important birthday… Although the console was released in Japan and America in 1989, we here in the UK didn’t get the Sega Mega Drive (or Genesis as it was known in the US) until November 30th, 2015. So, it’s the consoles 25th birthday today. At least in the UK. Bet you […]

How The Old Hunters’ First Boss Reminded Me of What it Means to Play Bloodborne

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Mild spoilers for Bloodborne: The Old Hunters follow… Despite it being my first venture into a game of the Souls ilk, I never found Bloodborne to be too cripplingly difficult. Yes, it had a healthy level of challenge and was certainly tougher and less forgiving than anything I had played in a long time, but […]

The Least Profitable Films Of The Year Prove The Star Is Dead

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This week Neil Calloway argues that big name film stars alone are no longer a guarantee of box office return… This week the least profitable films of the year were announced, with films starring household names such as Chris Hemsworth, Bill Murray and Sean Penn all appearing in movies that made the list. At first […]

Interview: River star Stellan Skarsgård

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Paul Risker chats with River star Stellan Skarsgård… River is a series that is difficult to boil down into a simple description, on one level it is a detective, crime and mystery story that looks to feed the audience’s enduring appetite for this variety of drama. And yet beneath its surface River will be seen […]

Movies Are Getting Worse & It’s All Our Fault

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Samuel Brace thinks movies are getting worse, and its all our own fault… My friend and I went to see Bridge of Spies, the new Tom Hanks/Steven Spielberg movie. It was a Friday, a Friday night, the end of a long day and an even longer week. “Is this supposed to be good?” she asked […]

The Week in Disappointment – Star Wars, The Hobbit, Merlin, Spectre and Gambit

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Anghus Houvouras with this week’s disappointments from the entertainment world… “Peter Jackson admits ‘I didn’t know what the hell I was doing’ on the Hobbit” You know, I have to give Peter Jackson some props. Last year when I included The Hobbit films amongst ‘the most disappointing films of all time’, I got so much […]

Is Spectre the worst James Bond movie?

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Anghus Houvouras on Spectre… Sweet, sweet hyperbole. Where would we be without you? Let’s just put it out there: Spectre was terrible. A lazy, lifeless, sloppily put together excuse for a 007 outing. It had all the elements of a 007 outing: action, espionage, scenic locations, beautiful women. However, none of it seemed to click. […]