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The 10 Best Villains in Arnold Schwarzenegger Movies

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Arnold Schwarzenegger is one of cinema’s greatest action heroes and he’s come up against some great villains. Here’s the 10 best! Arnold Schwarzenegger was one of the defining heroes of the 1980s and early 90s, ruling the action genre alongside Sylvester Stallone and making up one-half of an iconic cinematic rivalry. When you look through […]

An Exploration of Bro Camp: The Best of Campy Guy Movies

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EJ Moreno on the best of bro camp… We all know the infamous campy films: think of movies like The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Mommie Dearest, or Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar. These are movies known for their bright and wacky aesthetic, filled with queer appeal, and targeting a particular type of […]

10 Stunning Performances Outrageously Snubbed by the Oscars

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It’s the Oscars, so it’s time to look at ten stunning performances the Academy outrageously snubbed… Oscar season is an exciting time of the year. It’s fair to say that every year, for one reason or another, contentious decisions are made as well as glaring omissions. The desperation from some actors to snag an Oscar […]

Fantastical, Flawed and Madcap: 80s British Horror Cinema

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We take a look back at the curious case of 80s British Horror – an era of odd fusions, oddities, indulgent auteurs and flawed cult favourites… Think of those iconic periods in horror around the world. German expressionist horror of the 1920s and 30s, the Giallo boom of the 60s and 70s, British hammer horror […]

The Most Overhated Modern Superhero Movies

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EJ Moreno looks at a selection of unfairly maligned superhero movies… Nowadays, all we hear is “superhero fatigue,” with audiences and critics growing tired of the genre. As cinema has been dominated by DC and Marvel for decades now, it seems like almost every superhero movie is met with a blah reaction. But that wasn’t […]

Six Overhated Modern Horror Movies

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EJ Moreno looks at six overhated recent horror movies… Horror is often the genre that gets this most unfair shake of things. Often, mainstream critics and audiencegoers don’t “get” what the genre film is going for and will write it off as ‘bad’ instead of ‘not for them.’ So, we’ve compiled a list of modern […]

The Best Retro 2000 AD Video Games

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Andrew Newton revisits the best retro 2000 AD video games… The weekly sci-fi magazine known as 2000 AD was a staple for young lads growing up in the late 70s and throughout the 80s and 90s (and perhaps still is?). Each issue (or prog as it is called) is filled with amazing and fantastical tales […]

Ten Action Sequels The World Needs To See

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Originality be damned in Hollywood, it’s time to look at some action sequels the world needs… Recently it was announced that Sly Stallone would be donning his climbing gear and hitting the mountains for a Cliffhanger sequel. That sent the Flickering Myth office into a frenzy of ideas… actually, it was just me in a […]

Knight Rider: The Story Behind the Classic 1980s David Hasselhoff Series

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Hasitha Fernando looks at the classic 80s TV series Knight Rider… To say, Knight Rider was one of the most popular TV shows of the 80s era is something of an understatement. The show catapulted David Hasselhoff into the stratosphere and made the Pontiac Firebird Trans Am the epitome of cool. Originally broadcast on NBC […]

The Essential Man vs. AI Movies

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AI technology is developing to astonishing levels and if you’ve seen any of these sci-fi films, you know it’s all going to go wrong…  Technology is great. Whoever invented the waffle iron is a genius. Video games keep us amused, even though I think that games peaked at 16-bit. When it comes to everyday functions, […]