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A Lack of Vision: The Missed Opportunities of the Skywalker Saga – Pharisees & Fiancees

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Anghus Houvouras continues his deep dive into the Skywalker Saga… In part one we discussed the missed opportunity of connecting Anakin’s emotional arc to the pain of slavery and losing his mother. Anakin’s disturbing past is abandoned. The anger and rage that we see him capable of in subsequent films never feels sufficiently connected to […]

A Lack of Vision: The Missed Opportunities of the Skywalker Saga – The Emancipation of Anakin

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Anghus Houvouras begins a deep dive into the Skywalker Saga … Believe me, I wish I could just… wish away my feelings. My relationship with Star Wars has changed significantly over my lifetime. From the first movie I ever saw in theaters to the pop culture universe I gleefully devoured in the form of comic […]

A Lack of Vision: The Missed Opportunities of the Skywalker Saga – Rey Nobody

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Anghus Houvouras completes his analysis of the missed opportunities of the Skywalker Saga… The following is a continuation of the thought process laid out in Part One: The Emancipation of Anakin where I suggest one minor pivot to Anakin’s core motivation; The deep psychological scar of slavery. Every motivating factor from why he wants to […]

Popeye coming to Blu-ray for 40th anniversary this December

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Paramount Home Entertainment has announced that Robert Altman’s 1980 musical comedy Popeye is set to arrive on Blu-ray for the first ever time this December in celebration of the film’s 40th anniversary; check out the cover artwork and details below…. The beloved anvil-armed sailor of the seven seas comes magically to life in POPEYE, arriving […]

Ray Fisher claims DC Films boss called Joss Whedon “an asshole”

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The very public spat between Cyborg actor Ray Fisher and Warner Bros. over the allegedly abusive behaviour of Joss Whedon towards the cast and crew of Justice League rolls on, with Fisher now claiming that DC Films boss Walter Hamada called Whedon “an asshole”. Responding to recent comments from Hamada that Fisher is refusing to […]

Live-action Your Name movie finds new director

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Last year it was announced that  Paramount Pictures, Bad Robot Productions and Toho are teaming for a live-action adaptation of Makoto Shinkai’s hit 2016 anime feature Your Name, and now THR is reporting that filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung (Minari) has signed on to direct. The film follows “a young woman living in a rural area […]

Tokyo Home Stay Massacre exclusive clip welcomes us to Japan

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Thanks to Leomark Studios, we’ve got an exclusive clip from Tokyo Home Stay Massacre, a new horror which follows three American teenagers on an unforgettable trip to Japan; check it out here… SEE ALSO: Japanese horror Tokyo Home Stay Massacre gets a bloody trailer, poster and images Three American late teens travel to Japan to […]

Trailer for Edward James Olmos-directed The Devil Has a Name starring David Strathairn and Kate Bosworth

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Momentum Pictures has released a trailer, poster and images for the Edward James Olmos-directed The Devil Has a Name which stars David Strathairn as a broke widowed farmer who goes up against a psychotic oil executive (Kate Bosworth) when he learns her company has been polluting his water; take a look here… Widowed, broke and […]

Alden Ehrenreich on Solo: A Star Wars Story finding new fans on Disney+ and its initial reception

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When speaking to Total Film, Brave New World actor Alden Ehrenreich candidly opened up about his time as Han Solo on the 2018 film Solo: A Star Wars Story. “Solo was a three-year experience, all said and done,” says Ehrenreich to Total Film. “I had been away from home pretty much for about three years. […]