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The Week in Star Wars – Episode VIII character details, Rogue One advance tickets, Game of Thrones star joins Han Solo, new LEGO sets revealed

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It’s a packed edition of The Week in Star Wars as we’ve got some possible character details for Star Wars: Episode VIII, a rumour about the Spider-Man: Homecoming trailer, loads of new posters and featurettes for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and more… We’ll kick things off this week with Star Wars: Episode VIII. […]

The Week in Star Wars – Everything you need to know about Lord and Miller, Ron Howard and Han Solo

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It’s a special edition of The Week in Star Wars following the shock news from the Han Solo spin-off movie, along with some bits from The Last Jedi, Episode IX and more… Before we kick things off, The Week in Star Wars celebrated it’s second birthday this week. Thanks to everyone who has read any […]

Top 10 Films of 2017 (So Far)

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The Flickering Myth team vote… July marks the second half of 2017, can you believe it’s been half a year already? We’ve seen so much already! Audiences have been wowed by the movies approved by the Academy, Beauty and the Beast earned $1 billion, we’ve seen Fate of the Furious push the franchise to whole […]

Lord and Miller: 12 other directors who left/got fired from movies during production

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Luke Owen looks at directors who left/got fired from movies during production… With the shocking news that Phil Lord and Chris Miller have vacated the director’s chairs for the yet-to-be-titled Han Solo movie over “creative differences” (some sources say they were forced out), I thought it was time to look at some other directors who […]

Michael Bay is a disgusting, deplorable director – and he should be ashamed of himself

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Luke Owen is not a fan of Michael Bay and his Transformers movies… Last night I was unfortunate enough to stumble upon a film I’ve not seen in nearly a decade. It’s an epic failure of a movie, an odious mess of horribly-shot action, gross depictions of women, bizarrely-placed racism and woefully bad writing. The […]

It’s time for us to admit that Batman ’66 was awesome

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Luke Owen with some thoughts about Batman ’66… Following the tragic passing of Adam West over the weekend I’ve been thinking a lot about Batman ’66, the TV show that entertained millions of children at the tail-end of the swingin’ sixties. Like many, it was my introduction to the character, and it genuinely might be […]

Movie Review – Wonder Woman (2017)

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Wonder Woman, 2017 Directed by Patty Jenkins Starring Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Connie Nielsen, Robin Wright, David Thewlis, Danny Huston, Elena Anaya, Ewan Bremner, Lucy Davis, Eugene Brave Rock, Emily Carey, Lilly Aspell, and Saïd Taghmaoui. SYNOPSIS: Before she was Wonder Woman she was Diana, princess of the Amazons, trained warrior. When a pilot crashes […]

We need to talk about the disappointing Wonder Woman box office tracking

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Luke Owen on the box office tracking for Wonder Woman… Last month it was reported that Wonder Woman, the latest entry in the struggling DCEU, was tracking around $83 million. While not a complete disaster, it really wasn’t a great number when compared to its contemporaries. However a new report yesterday stated it was more […]

Movie Review – Ghost Stories (2017)

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Ghost Stories, 2017. Directed by Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson. Starring Andy Nyman, Martin Freeman, Alex Lawther and Paul Whitehouse SYNOPSIS: Arch sceptic Professor Phillip Goodman embarks upon a terror-filled quest when he stumbles across a long-lost file containing details of three cases of inexplicable ‘hauntings’. With book adaptations, it’s often hard for film reviewers to separate the source […]