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Remember when Captain Planet did an episode on AIDS?

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Following the announcement of a new live-action film produced by Leonardo DiCaprio and their discussion on the Flickering Myth Podcast, Luke Owen looks back at the Captain Planet and the Planeteers episode “Formula for Hate”… In the late 1980s and early 1990s, no subject was perhaps more taboo than HIV and AIDS. Though many had died previously, […]

Why Attack of the Clones is the worst Star Wars movie

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Luke Owen looks back at Attack of the Clones… The year is 1999. The excitement and buzz surrounding the release of the first Star Wars movie since 1983 is at an all-time high. We’d recently just relived our love of the original trilogy via the 1997 Special Edition re-releases, and now here we are with […]

The true story behind Universal suing Nintendo over King Kong and Donkey Kong

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Luke Owen looks back at the court battle between Universal and Nintendo… “[King Kong] surpasses anything of its type which has gone before it in commercial film-making. The work has many flaws, but they’re overcome by the general results. The errors will probably be overlooked… While not believing it, audiences will wonder how it’s done. If […]

The true story behind The Garbage Pail Kids Movie

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Luke Owen revisits The Garbage Pail Kids Movie… “This is it. The worst. The absolute worst. No story, no character, no plot, just pain. Pure concentrated pain. There has never been anything this bad in the history of man. It should be studied, it should be analysed. It is pure evil. I don’t know whether […]

Transformers: A reminder that Megan Fox auditioned for the movie by washing Michael Bay’s car while he filmed it

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UPDATE – JUNE 2020: After a clip of Megan Fox talking to Jimmy Kimmel about working for Michael Bay on Bad Boys II resurfaced and went viral, the actress released the following statement regarding her audition for Transformers, where she clarified that she was not washing a car, but rather enacting a scene from the […]

The true story behind Dougray Scott playing Wolverine in X-Men and why Hugh Jackman took over

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Luke Owen looks back at a time when Hugh Jackman was not Wolverine… There was a lot of buzz and excitement in 1999. People around planet earth were excited to see what the new Millennium would bring; while big companies panicked that the Y2K bug would kill all their hard work and shut down the […]

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 has biggest Friday opening of 2014; although the lowest of the franchise

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It may be the lowest of the franchise thus far, but The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 has smashed records for 2014 with the biggest opening Friday of the year. Taking a whopping $55 million across 4,151 screens, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 has eclipsed Transformers: Age of Extinction, which had a Friday total of […]

It’s official – Will Smith, Jared Leto, Tom Hardy, Cara Delevingne and Jai Courtney join Suicide Squad

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It’s a cast list that has been rumoured for some time, but has now been confirmed by Warner Bros. that a star studded line-up will form alongside the previously confirmed Margot Robbie (The Wolf of Wall Street) as the Suicide Squad. Will Smith (Hancock) will be taking on the role of Deadshot, Cara Delevingne (Pan) […]

New James Bond movie titled Spectre – cast, car and synopsis also revealed

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Bond fans – the wait is finally over! Announced at Pinewood Studios today, we now know officially the new title for Sam Mendes’ Bond 24 – Spectre. Fans of the Bond franchise will certainly know what this is a nod to… Also announced today was that Bond will be driving the brand new Aston Martin […]