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Why is everybody hating on Ready Player One?

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Anghus Houvouras on Ready Player One… Ready Player One. Ernest Cline’s huge hit of a novel came out in 2011 and was embraced by the geek community like few other novels in the 21st century. It was a highly coveted book even before it’s release when publishers engaged in a bidding war for the rights. […]

If you’re a person who gives bad reviews to films you’ve not seen, perhaps you should rethink your life

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Samuel Brace on the campaign to sabotage the Rotten Tomatoes score of Marvel’s Black Panther… In the grand scheme of nefarious machinations, the topic of disgruntled movie fans (‘fan’ being a word I’m hesitant here to use) dishing out bad review scores to films which have yet to be seen, falls rather lower on the […]

How Far Can Star Wars Go?

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Tom Jolliffe takes a look at the Star Wars franchise and just how far it can go… Before I start the ball rolling, I think we’ve all established that Star Wars: The Last Jedi was divisive. In the end the big band of people who thought it was a Cleveland steamer upon the chest of […]

What can we expect from HBO’s Watchmen?

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Ricky Church on HBO’s Watchmen series… It goes without saying that Watchmen is one of the most celebrated and revered graphic novels ever made. It is constantly cited as a favourite among comic book readers and usually listed as one of the greatest ever written from numerous sources. Zack Snyder directed a feature film in […]

How Star Wars lost its luster

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Anghus Houvouras on the Star Wars franchise… Sic transit gloria. Glory fades. That’s the first thing that came to mind when I started thinking about how quickly the latest Star Wars movie came and went. It’s been just over a month since The Last Jedi was released and whether you loved the film or loathed […]

Why Certain Films Do Well During Awards Season

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Neil Calloway looks at why a certain type of movie will always get the nod at the Oscars… This coming Tuesday sees the announcement of this year’s Oscar nominations. We’ve already had the Golden Globes, and if you really care about that sort of thing, the Baftas are next month. We’re deep into awards season, […]

What it means to watch The Post on the anniversary of Trump’s inauguration

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Sean Wilson on why Steven Spielberg’s new movie couldn’t be more timely… A mere 20 minutes into The Post, the new drama from Steven Spielberg, I started to experience that pleasurable feeling that only the very best movies are capable of invoking. So confidently handled is Spielberg’s latest movie, the story of The Washington Post’s […]

Could Low Expectations for Solo: A Star Wars Story Be the Catalyst for Thundering Success?

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Samuel Brace on Solo: A Star Wars Story… Is Solo: A Star Wars Story, against all odds, a success waiting to happen? It’s more than possible and one could even argue probable given the circumstances. Solo: A Star Wars Story is the film nobody wanted, aspersions have been cast upon it since the moment of […]

4 Great Films To Watch (As We Mark One Year of President Trump)

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Graeme Robertson with four great films to watch as we mark one year of President Donald Trump… January 20th, 2017 will be a date that will continue to baffle us for many years to come. It’s a date in which many of our preconceived notions of what is possible where thrown out the window and […]