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Bad Movies & Bad Content: There Has To Be Consequences

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Samuel Brace on bad movies on bad content… There has to be consequences for making a bad movie. There just has to. Consequences for bad movies, bad TV shows, bad video games, whatever. If a studio produces a movie, a bad one, one that is below a certain standard, a standard that we are not […]

What’s with all the hate for Ghostbusters II?

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Simon Columb on the hate for Ghostbusters II… Off the bat, I’ll admit it’s inferior to Ghostbusters. The combination of Dan Ackroyd, Harold Ramis and Bill Murray, in a family-friendly blockbuster, with a fiendishly spooky-but-fun script is a perfect cocktail of expertise. With these elements in mind, Ghostbusters II ultimately doesn’t have the innovation calling […]

Looking forward to Peaky Blinders Series 3

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Joshua Gill looks forward to the third series of Peaky Blinders… With Peaky Blinders returning to BBC2 in early 2016, the buzz surrounding Cillian Murphy’s reprisal of the Shelby name has risen with a number of press releases, interviews and advertisements. The show has publicised that there is to be an hour-long discussion surrounding the […]

Will PlayStation’s Bare Autumn Help Xbox Close The Gap?

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Samuel Brace on whether PlayStation’s bare autumn could help Xbox to close the gap… PlayStation is winning. There is no doubt about it. In all likelihood the Sony console is 10 million units ahead of Microsoft’s Xbox One. Now, Xbox isn’t doing badly, not by any stretch of the imagination, but PlayStation 4 — for […]

Why Tobey Maguire is a better Spider-Man than Andrew Garfield

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Anthony Stokes on why Tobey Maguire is a better Spider-Man than Andrew Garfield… Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man Trilogy will always have a special place in my heart. I watched them as a kid, then grew up and enjoyed them even more so as an adult. The style and art direction were ahead of their time, and […]

The Callow Way – Why Awards Season Doesn’t Matter

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Neil Calloway says that whoever wins this award season, it might not make a difference to their career… The Directors Guild of America Awards and the BAFTAs were last weekend, the Oscars are next weekend, we are right in the middle of award season. I hope you’re keeping your best dress or tuxedo clean. Whether […]

The Downside of The Avengers adopting Spider-Man

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Pim Razenberg on the downside of The Avengers adopting Spider-Man… So, there we have it! Monday this week Marvel announced their new partnership with Sony, after striking a deal to cement The Amazing Spider-Man’s future firmly within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The news was welcomed by many of the web-slinger’s fans, who were left disappointed […]

Interview: Paul Cornell talks Doctor Who

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Paul Cornell has been involved in the Doctor Who Universe for a long-time, writing numerous Doctor Who books & audio dramas, and the fantastic Who TV episodes “Father’s Day” and “Human Nature/Family of Blood”.  His latest involvement finds him penning Doctor Who: Four Doctors, a weekly comic event from Titan Comics which will start on August 12th […]

Birdman: Let Down By a Terrible Ending

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Anthony Stokes on Birdman and its ending (major spoilers follow)… When I first heard about Birdman, I was cautious; I tend to get annoyed with any movie that does the “one long take” gimmick because it seems to serve little purpose besides drawing attention to itself, and add in the idiosyncratic score, and it seemed […]