Flickering Myth

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How the Star Wars franchise keeps in pulling in billions

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As a generation of Star Wars fanatics await the return of one the biggest movie franchises of all time with the Christmas release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens (albeit with that controversial crossguard lightsaber), we got thinking – just how big is the Star Wars franchise? When Harrison Ford, Luke Hamill and Carrie Fisher […]

Horror movies: how big has their impact really been?

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Have you ever stopped to consider the level of impact horror movies have on our society? I’m not talking about theories where horror movies turn people into killers or whatever. I’m talking about how horror movies have impacted what we wear, the shows we watch on TV, the music we listen to and even the […]

Dispatches from the Potterverse: An Update on Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

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With filming due to start this summer we still don’t know nearly as much about Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them as we would like. However, change is in the air as official news slowly starts to emerge – and let’s face it, even the tightest lips can’t stop secrets escaping once the cameras […]

The Calloway Way – Why The New Alien Movie Might Disappoint

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This week Neil Calloway is wary of Neill Blomkamp’s Alien film… When Neill Blomkamp released some of the artwork for his proposed Alien film, I was impressed – concept art for science fiction films is often better than the films themselves – and mentally filed it in my “great unmade films” drawer. It sat there […]

Ocean’s Eleven is Back: A Celebration of the Franchise

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In recent years, Hollywood has come under increasing pressure to address what’s seen as a huge gender inequality issue within the movie industry. With an overwhelmingly positive response to Paul Feig’s upcoming all-female remake of Ghostbusters, and now the news of a possible Ocean’s Eleven reboot, this time with an all-star female cast, it’s looking […]

Star Wars Pokies from Disney?

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The recent launch of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, has enjoyed a huge media uproar and was the favorite subject across social media platforms for the following week, and justifiably so; Star Wars has been a cultural phenomenon since it hit the big screen in 1977. Naturally, this has stoked the flame of slots and […]

Which 2015 film character are you?

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2015 has certainly been a big year for blockbuster movies; we’ve seen Marvel bringing the curtain down on Phase Two with Avengers: Age of Ultron and Ant-Man, Universal Pictures enjoying huge success with the likes of Jurassic World, Minions, Fast & Furious 7 and Fifty Shades of Grey, The Hunger Games franchise drawing to a […]

Director Wes Ball talks Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials

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The filmmaker discusses heading back to the director’s chair for the second time with The Maze Runner sequel. “I wasn’t going to do the second one originally but the cast were the reason that I came back.” Director Wes Ball is referring to his second feature film, The Scorch Trials; the second instalment of dystopian […]

Nima Nourizadeh talks American Ultra

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Jesse Eisenberg is slacker turned sleeper agent in Nourizadeh’s hi-octane action-comedy, American Ultra. “For me, the script combined so many different things in an interesting and organic way. The conventions will be familiar to filmgoers, but they are mashed up a little bit, which changes everything.” Iranian-British filmmaker Nima Nourizadeh is talking about action comedy […]