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Race and Superhero Movies: Are minorities stealing white superhero roles?

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Anthony Stokes on race and superhero movies… Michelle Rodriguez made some comments about race swapping in comic book movies over the weekend, which she later went back and clarified, but the general gist was for minority actors to “stop stealing roles from white people”. Because there are so many white actors and actresses starving for […]

The Callow Way – Why Jack Black Was Right…

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This week Neil Calloway unexpectedly finds himself in agreement with the guy from Tenacious D… It pains me to say it, but Jack Black had a point. During his interjection into the opening song of last week’s Oscars, Black jokingly bemoaned the current state of cinema, complaining about sequels, prequels and comic book movies. It’s […]

Interviews: Try a New Form of Questioning

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Simon Columb on press junket interviews… I listen to many film podcasts. When I get behind, I’ll try and desperately catch up and inevitably listen to interviews with the same guest on different shows. This means that if Tom Cruise is speaking on various podcasts, then I’ll hear Cruise speak time and again about his new […]

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 […]