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Movies to Watch For in 2016 Part II

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Samuel Brace casts his eye over the second half of 2016 with four movies to look out for… Here we are guys. We are nearly halfway through 2016, a year that has been pretty tepid on the cinematic front. We’ve had some absolute stinkers, some surprising hits and a few excellent hangovers from last year’s […]

Neill Blomkamp not optimistic on Alien 5 chances

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The world was pretty excited when Neill Blomkamp released his concept for an Alien sequel, and things seemed to be going pretty well, looking like it would be worked on alongside Ridley Scott’s Prometheus sequel. But this has all seemed to have fallen apart and now Blomkamp doesn’t see much chance of the sequel going […]

VOD is Beating Cinema, and Maybe, Just Maybe, That’s a Good Thing

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Samuel Brace on the rise of VOD… Sometimes you have to go off the beaten path to find quality films these days. Gone is the time where you could solidly rely on what was top billed at your local cinema to be the cream of the crop. Those days are well and truly over. If you […]

Video Games Are Valid Entertainment, Stop Trying to Make Them Into Films

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Samuel Brace calls for an end to video game adaptations… Name a good video game to movie adaptation. Go on, name one. Name one bona fide hit with both critics and fans that’s source was a video game. Coming up short? That’s okay, it was an impossible task. There are of course some that are […]

Is Box Office More Important Than a Film’s Critical Success?

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Samuel Brace on whether box office is more important than critical success… How should we measure a film’s success? The metric we use to determine whether or not the latest feature film has reached heights high enough to warrant being labelled successful, seems to be up for a rather heated debate. Is a film’s worth […]

UPDATE: Game of Thrones’ Hardhome and Battle of the Bastards director returning for final season

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The director of Hardhome, and other infamous episodes, will be returning to Game of Thrones for the final season. Hardhome and Battle of the Bastards are two episodes that live in infamy, even by Game of Thrones’ standards, and what these two episodes have in common is that they were both directed by Miguel Sapochnik. […]

Shane Black’s The Predator is not a sequel, Arnold Schwarzenegger cameo unlikely

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According to actor Boyd Holbrook, The Predator will not be a sequel and may not feature any cameo from Arnold Schwarzenegger. Predator is one of those franchises, like Terminator, Robocop, and Alien, that is never likely to die. The film has spawned numerous sequels and offspring at this point, but fans are still excited to […]

Where Will The Next Great Directors Come From?

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Samuel Brace wonders where the next great directors will come from… We are in a dilemma. We are in a dilemma right now and it’s a pretty serious one. In fact the more I think about it, the more I pontificate on it, the more it depresses me and it should depress you too. We live […]