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Magic Mike dances past Titanic and Avatar to top Super Bowl weekend box office

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Over the traditionally tough Super Bowl weekend, Channing Tatum’s striptease-swansong Magic Mike’s Last Dance took the top podium with a middling return of $8.2 million at the North American box-office.  It’s worth noting that Warner Bros. decided to release Steven Soderbergh’s trilogy-capper in only 1,500 domestic theatres, and although it performed worse than the 2012 […]

Ranking Marvel’s Phases One to Four from Worst to Best

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Liam Hoofe ranks all four of Marvel’s phases so far… The recent release of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever marked the end of Marvel’s Phase Four, at least as far as the movies are concerned. The phase was the company’s quickest, starting and ending in less than 18 months, but it managed to pack in more […]

Ranking Marvel’s Phase Four Movies From Worst to Best

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Liam Hoofe ranks every movie in Marvel’s Phase Four from worst to best… Black Panther: Wakanda Forever marked the end of Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and it is fair to say that it has been the studio’s most divisive yet.   Following on from the dramatic events of Phase Three was always going […]

The Sandler Paradox: Seriously… Adam Sandler Could (and Should) Win an Oscar!

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We look at The Adam Sandler Paradox and why Little Nicky himself could (and should) win an Oscar soon… Adam Sandler is a fans favourite. A purveyor of ‘low brow’ comedy where he has perfected the role of the laid-back underdog who is slightly shlubby. Among an array of legitimate comedy gems (which you might […]

The Best Horror Movies of 2022

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EJ Moreno lists his favourite horror movies of the year… 2022 was a year filled to the brim with amazing horror films. If anyone ever doubted the state of the genre, we’ve collected ten films to prove why horror was in a better shape than any other year in recent memory.  You will find ten […]

Sarah Michelle Gellar: The Horror Icon’s Journey from Buffy to Wolf Pack

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EJ Moreno on Sarah Michelle Gellar’s horror career and impending return in Wolf Pack…. If you were a pop culture lover from the 90s or the 00s, you knew the power of Sarah Michelle Gellar. She was your first crush, hero, fashion icon, or all mixed together. One group of fans got to appreciate Gellar […]

The Good and Bad of Indulged Filmmakers

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Some filmmakers get full autonomy. Sometimes this is good. Sometimes, not so much… When you hit a level of success in filmmaking as a director (or occasionally a producing star actor) you find that studios increasingly bend over backwards to your every whim. This can even be to the point of risky ventures with huge […]

Three Masterful Technical Achievements from 2022

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Tom Jolliffe looks back at three technical marvels of filmmaking which wowed audiences in 2022… 2022 was a pretty stellar year for film. We had some great indie films, some spectacular action films, some choice cuts of world cinema and we were also treated to one of the best years in horror for quite some […]

Riddick: Furya officially moving ahead with Vin Diesel and David Twohy

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As the Fast & Furious series begins to wind down with the penultimate instalment Fast X this year, Vin Diesel is looking to revisit another of his franchises with Deadline reporting that the star is officially set to reunite with writer-director David Twohy for the long-planned Riddick: Furya. The new film – the fourth instlament […]