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The Week in Spandex – Batman v Superman, Suicide Squad, Captain America: Civil War, Doctor Strange, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Luke Cage, Deadpool, X-Men: Apocalypse and more

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In this edition of The Week in Spandex, we look at Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Suicide Squad, Supergirl, Vixen, Arrow, The Flash, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Gotham, Captain America: Civil War, Doctor Strange, Spider-Man, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Deadpool, X-Men: Apocalypse and more…We’ll start things off this […]

Justin Lin talks Idris Elba’s villain in Star Trek Beyond

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On Monday, Paramount Pictures unleashed the trailer for Star Trek Beyond, the third movie in the studio’s rebooted Trek universe. Featured in the trailer was our first glimpse of Idris Elba’s villain Krall, and speaking to Slash Film and Collider, director Justin Lin has offered up some details on the alien bad guy and his motivations.“When […]

Simon Pegg “didn’t love” Star Trek Beyond trailer

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It’s fair to say that the first trailer for Star Trek Beyond wasn’t the biggest of hits with fans of the franchise; the response from our writers in the Flickering Myth Reaction was mixed at best, both Wil Wheaton and George Takei weren’t overly impressed, and it seems that star and co-writer Simon Pegg wasn’t the biggest […]

Emily VanCamp discusses Sharon Carter role in Captain America: Civil War, will fight Black Widow

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During an interview with ET Online, Emily VanCamp has been speaking about reprising the role of Sharon Carter in Captain America: Civil War, as well as revealing that Agent 13 will square off against Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow in the Phase Three-launching threequel.“I can say that she’s openly going to be Sharon Carter in the […]

The Flickering Myth Reaction to the first Star Trek Beyond trailer

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The Flickering Myth writing team share their thoughts on Star Trek Beyond…Yesterday Paramount Pictures unleashed the first trailer for Star Trek Beyond, the third instalment of the rebooted Trek universe, which sees Fast & Furious helmer Justin Lin taking over the reins from J.J. Abrams. What did our writing team make of the trailer? Find […]

The Merc with a Mouth announces ’12 Days of Deadpool’

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With two new trailers for Deadpool set to land on Christmas Day, Ryan Reynolds’ Merc with a Mouth has revealed that Fox will be counting down to their release with the ’12 Days of Deadpool’, celebrating the holidays with new content every day; take a look at the announcement video here…SEE ALSO: New international poster […]

The Flickering Myth Reaction to the first trailer for Independence Day: Resurgence

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The Flickering Myth writing team share their thoughts on the first trailer for Independence Day: Resurgence…With Christmas just a little over a week away, Hollywood continues to roll out the trailers for some of 2016’s biggest releases. We’ve seen our first look at Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows and X-Men: Apocalypse over […]

Independence Day: Resurgence War of 1996 viral site reveals the fate of Will Smith’s Steven Hiller

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Following on from yesterday’s first trailer [watch it here], 20th Century Fox has launched a new viral site for the sequel entitled ‘War of 1996‘.https://youtu.be/-CbVSZpht8EIncluded on the site is a breaking news item which reveals the fate of Will Smith’s character Steven Hiller; entitled ‘Alien Tech Malfunction Kills Col. Hiller’, the report reads: “While test […]

Star Wars: The Force Awakens shatters a host of records at the UK box office

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UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 18th December to Sunday 20th December 2015… This won’t really come as much of a surprise, but Star Wars: The Force Awakens has shattered a host of records at the UK box office.Debuting on Thursday, the film pulled in the biggest ever opening day with […]