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Film4 FrightFest 2015 Review – Turbo Kid (2015)

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Turbo Kid, 2015Written and directed by François Simard, Anouk Whissell, Yoann-Karl Whissell Starring Munro Chambers, Laurence Leboeuf, Michael Ironside, Edwin Wright. Aaron Jeffery, Romano Orzri, Orphée LadouceurSYNOPSIS: In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a comic book fan dons the persona of his favourite hero to save his enthusiastic friend and fight a tyrannical overlord.To paraphrase the producer of […]

Film4 FrightFest 2015 Review – Stung (2015)

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Stung, 2015Directed by Benni Diez Starring Clifton Collins Jr., Jessica Cook, Lance Henriksen, David Masterson, Matt O’Leary, Cecilia Pillado, Kathleen RenishSYNOPSIS: A fancy garden party turns into upper class prey when a colony of killer wasps mutates into seven foot tall predators.Imagine if you took The Fly, The Thing, Aliens, Eight Legged Freaks and that cockroach […]

Humble Audiobook Bundle brings back classic Star Wars radio dramas featuring Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels and Billy Dee Williams

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With Star Wars Mania running wild in the lead up to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Humble Audiobook Bundle have teamed with HighBridge Audio to bring back classic Star Wars radio dramas.Press release follows:Humble Bundle is teaming up with HighBridge Audioto launch an audiobook bundle showcasing Star Wars, introducing these classic NPR radio dramas to […]

Jeremy Renner says it’s unlikely we’ll see The Avengers team with Guardians of the Galaxy

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With Phase Three building towards The Avengers: Infinity War Parts 1 & 2 and Thanos appearing in James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy, many fans assumed we would be seeing Earth’s Mightiest Heroes crossing paths with the Guardians.Well, according to Jeremy Renner. We probably won’t.“You’ll be eighty years old by then, and I won’t be […]

The Week in Star Wars – The Force Awakens runtime, Drew Struzan calls it the best Star Wars movie ever, Pop! Vinyl figures revealed, Darth Vader PS4 and more

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In this week’s edition of The Week in Star Wars, we recover from the bumper edition coming off D23 with some smaller nuggets of news for The Force Awakens and more…Kicking things off with Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and J.J. Abrams has revealed the runtime for the highly-anticipated movie. It’s shorter than any of […]

R.I.P Yvonne Craig (1937 – 2015)

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We are sad to report this morning the passing of Yvonne Craig, who has died at the age of 78. Her official website broke the news.Craig was perhaps best known for her role as Batgirl in the 1960’s Batman TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward. She also featured in the Star Trek episode […]

Original version of Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four had Galactus, Mole Man, Herbie the Robot, the Fantasticar and Doctor Doom as a Latverian dictator

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Like Tim Burton’s Superman Lives or James Cameron’s Spider-Man, we will never see the true version of Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four. Among the many public problems the film has had in the last couple of weeks (see here, here, here, here, here and here), it was revealed by screenwriter Jeremy Slater that not much of his script was […]

New details about Bebop and Rocksteady in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2

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Warning – minor spoilers below…We’ve seen some set photos of Gary Anthony Williams and WWE Superstar Sheamus as Bebop and Rocksteady pre-mutation, and it was always assumed they would end up as the rhino and warthog that we know an love from the cartoon.Well, looks like that is the case.Former WWE Superstar and current UFC trainee […]

Ali Larter says Resident Evil: The Final Chapter will be the last in the series

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Filming for Resident Evil: The Final Chapter begins in South Africa next month, and Ali Larter (who was announced to return last month) has confirmed that this will, indeed, be the final chapter of the long-running franchise.“We are not allowed to say one thing,” she told IGN. “I am held to secrecy, but what I […]