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Sicario: Villeneuve, Deakins and the quest for greatness

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Steve Jennings on Denis Villeneueve, Roger Deakins and the quest for greatness… He’s so nearly there, Denis Villeneuve. The Canadian-born director of Incendies, Prisoners, Enemy and most recently Sicario is making a habit of creating enthralling pieces of work that are on the verge of greatness. You sense Villeneuve will strike gold eventually. For now, […]

Interview with James Brown from Gang Beasts

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Villordsutch interviews James Brown from Gang Beasts… Gang Beasts at Play Expo is manned – from what I can see – by two people, James Brown and his father.  They are truly an indie game company and they are currently neck deep in people.  I can’t recall seeing an indie game stand politely asking people […]

Why The 33 soundtrack is a testament to James Horner’s memory

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Sean Wilson remembers one of film music’s great dramatists James Horner with his instrumentally varied and beautiful disaster movie score… Chilean mining drama The 33 may have generated mixed reviews, not least for its oddly international cast including Spain’s Antonio Banderas, France’s Juliette Binoche and Ireland’s Gabriel Byrne. However, it’s notable for being one of the […]

Mystery, Resolution and the Virtue of Ambiguity

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Samuel Brace on mystery, resolution and the virtue of ambiguity… A mystery, a puzzle that needs solving, and the facts unknown are key ingredients to what brings us back to our favourite TV shows episode after episode. They are the factors that hold our attention as a movie plays. The fact that all the pieces […]

Spielberg Is Right, Comic Book Movies Are The New Westerns

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This week, Neil Calloway agrees with Steven Spielberg about Comic Book Movies… A month or so after it began, and some might say right in time for his new film, the Tom Hanks starring Cold War espionage thriller Bridge of Spies, the debate over Steven Spielberg’s comments regarding comic book movies rumbles on. To be […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #83 – Football Manager

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It takes a steely nerve to put a curly-haired, bearded chap smiling on the cover of something and then expect it to sell well. In truth this only really happens once a decade it being Bob Ross’ (Deceased) turn the decade before.  However when Kevin Toms appeared, smiling on the cover of his Football Manager […]

The Week in Disappointment – Avengers: Infinity War, Spectre, Fantastic Four, Inhumans, Fast & Furious 8

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Anghus Houvouras with this week’s disappointments from the entertainment world… “Daniel Craig says he’d only do another Bond for the money” Does that mean you did Quantum of Solace for the artistic integrity? I love how cocky the star of Cowboys and Aliens gets when discussing another Bond film. As if 007 has prevented him […]

The Top 10 Greatest ZX Spectrum Tunes Ever!

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Going through the Top 100 Your Sinclair games [follow the countdown here] I’ve become aware of the rather brilliant – and also dire – tunes that were designed around the games – some hidden amongst levels, but most placed in a prominent spot as the game’s main theme. Not wanting to be overly biased I strolled along […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #98 – Pheenix

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Villordsutch counts down Your Sinclair’s Top 100 ZX Spectrum Games… Continuing on with the Your Sinclair Top 100 ZX Spectrum games ever made the next game on our list is Pheenix from Megadodo. Megadodo released three games in total – including Pheenix – and other than they share the same name of the publishing company behind the fictional Hitchhikers […]