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Exclusive Interview – Us composer Michael Abels on playing with silence, collaborating with Jordan Peele and more

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Flickering Myth writer Justin Cook chats with composer Michael Abels ahead of today’s home video release of Us… In hindsight, Jordan Peele’s Us had the thankless job of being the follow-up to the director’s previous directorial outing — indisputably one of the most culturally impactful films of the past decade — Get Out. It should […]

Exclusive Interview – Avengement star Scott Adkins and writer Stu Small

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To celebrate the release of the acclaimed, violent and action-packed thriller Avengement, we caught up with leading man Scott Adkins and writer Stu Small at the UK Premiere to discuss the film. In Avengement, while granted leave from prison, Cain Burgess (Adkins) evades his guards and returns to old haunts to take revenge on the […]

Exclusive Interview with Slasher: Solstice and Supernatural’s Lisa Berry

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Ricky Church chats with actor Lisa Berry… Netflix recently released the third season of the Canadian horror anthology series Slasher, which went under the full title of Slasher: Solstice. The new season follows a group of residents in an apartment complex on the anniversary of a brutal murder of one of their neighbours by a killer known […]

Exclusive Interview – Dirty God star Vicky Knight and director Sacha Polak on telling the story of an acid attack survivor

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Tom Beasley sits down with Sacha Polak, director of Dirty God, and her leading lady Vicky Knight to discuss their powerful tale of a young woman dealing with the aftermath of an acid attack that leaves her scarred… London has been referred to in various reports as “the acid attack capital of the world”, which […]

Exclusive Interview – Michael Gatt discusses his score to the newly relaunched DC Super Hero Girls

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We chat with composer Michael Gatt about DC Super Hero Girls… DC Super Hero Girls have been around since 2015, originally premiering with a toy line and webseries, but when Emmy winning writer/producer Lauren Faust announced she was relaunching the series for Cartoon Network fans and critics immediately began anticipating the return. One of the […]

Exclusive Interview – Writer-director Sebastian Lelio on Gloria Bell

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For Sebastian Lelio, making Gloria Bell is like visiting a much-loved friend.  The film, which is released in cinemas and online this Thursday, June 6th, is the second time he’s told the story of the divorced woman in her 50s trying to find her place in the world. First time round, the film was Gloria.  […]

Exclusive Interview – O’Shea Jackson Jr. on Godzilla: King of the Monsters

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Having taken on the role of Chief Warrant Officer Barnes, O’Shea Jackson Jr. is on the ground level for much of Godzilla: King of the Monsters. Dodging lightening strikes, explosions and falling debris, he’s the closet thing the film has to a human action hero and – judging by his infectious enthusiasm – he clearly relished […]

Exclusive Interview – Michael Dougherty on Godzilla: King of the Monsters

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Releasing five years after its predecessor, the long-awaited sequel Godzilla: King of the Monsters has finally made it’s way into cinemas and is filled with all the monster-mash action you’d expect. In the lead up to the film’s release, we were lucky enough to sit down with writer-director Michael Dougherty (Trick ‘r Treat, Krampus) to […]

Exclusive Interview – X-Men: Dark Phoenix director Simon Kinberg on star wrangling, leaving out Hugh Jackman, and the Disney/Fox merger

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Tom Beasley sits down with Simon Kinberg to discuss X-Men: Dark Phoenix and the wider universe in the wake of Disney’s takeover of Fox… The X-Men are finally back. Three years after Apocalypse proved to be divisive, to say the least, Charles Xavier’s team of mutant heroes have returned to the big screen for X-Men: […]

Exclusive Interview – X-Men: Dark Phoenix producer Hutch Parker on saying goodbye to these characters

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Tom Beasley chats to producer Hutch Parker about X-Men: Dark Phoenix and bidding farewell to this roster of superhero characters… After a turbulent path to the big screen, we’re now just days away from the release of X-Men: Dark Phoenix, arriving in the wake of the big Disney-Fox merger. The film allows Simon Kinberg – […]