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BFI to award Bourne director Paul Greengrass with Fellowship award

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Director Paul Greengrass is to be awarded with the BFI Fellowship later this year. Greengrass, who brought his distinctive style to mainstream with The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum, will receive the BFI Fellowship at this year’s 61st BFI London Film Festival. The BAFTA winning director will be presented with the honour at the […]

Marvel’s The Defenders Teaches Us That Less Is More

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Samuel Brace on Marvel’s The Defenders… Less is more. This is never truer than when it comes to TV content. Too much of something, even a good thing, can become damaging. Netflix has unfortunately ignored or just failed to understand this concept when it comes to its Marvel properties. However, with their latest series, The […]

All the Money in the World just qualifies for the Golden Globes in time

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Ridley Scott has just about managed to get All the Money in the World across the line in time for Golden Globes consideration. Scott has been busy reshooting parts of his historical biopic All the Money in the World, having to recast Kevin Spacey with Christopher Plummer after the former’s sexual assault scandal broke. The […]

Christopher Plummer on replacing Kevin Spacey: “It’s such a shame”

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Christopher Plummer has commented on replacing Kevin Spacey for All the Money in the World. One of the biggest last minute changes in recent movie history has occurred with Spacey being pulled from Ridley Scott’s biopic All the Money in the World in favour of Christopher Plummer. Spacey was removed from the role, even though […]

Avengers: Infinity War’s Tom Holland on how Peter Parker has changed since Spider-Man: Homecoming

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In the build up to his appearance in Avengers: Infinity War, Tom Holland has spoken about how Spider-Man has changed since Spider-Man: Homecoming. With all the myriad characters that are set to appear in the hotly anticipated Avengers: Infinity War, significant character arcs might be few and far between. One character that will surely get […]

Neill Blomkamp has confirmed that he’s moved on from his Alien movie

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We now have confirmation from Neill Blomkamp that his proposed Alien movie is no longer a project that he is thinking about. When Ridley Scott brought back the Alien franchise with Prometheus a number of years ago there was indeed a lot of excitement about where the series could go, and Blomkamp was being lined […]

Star Wars’ Kylo Ren has been voted the seventh greatest movie villain ever

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Kylo Ren, the antagonist from the sequel trilogy of Star Wars films, has been voted as the seventh greatest movie villain ever. Ren caught the attention pretty quickly upon his debut in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, thanks to his distinctive mask and odd looking lightsaber. But the character, played by Adam Driver, has more […]

Ridley Scott says he is “too dangerous” to direct a Star Wars film

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Legendary director Ridley Scott has described himself as being “too dangerous” to be chosen to direct a Star Wars film. Scott has been behind some of cinema’s most iconic pictures, one of which, Blade Runner, has recently spawned a sequel directed by Denis Villeneuve. In an interview with Vulture, Scott commented on Blade Runner 2049’s […]