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Special Features – Watching fifteen Godzilla movies or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Monsters

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David Bishop reflects on his 15 movie Godzilla marathon… If you’ve been reading fellow Flickering Myth writer Luke Owen’s various articles, you’ll know that Luke, our partner in crime Jon Lipscombe and I undertake a movie marathon each month. For February we chose Godzilla, or, more specifically, the first fifteen Godzilla movies. As there are twenty-nine altogether, […]

Revisiting the Nakatomi Plaza: Die Hard

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With A Good Day to Die Hard currently in cinemas, Tom Jolliffe revisits the original Die Hard… The fifth Die Hard has now exploded into cinemas. It’s been 25 years since the film world was introduced to Officer John McClane. The latest instalment has been pounded with a barrage of criticism and undisputedly called the […]

The Terry Gilliam Retrospective Part 3: The Maverick Expatriate

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Paul Risker continues his Terry Gilliam retrospective… Brazil is the film that best represents the pinnacle of Gilliam’s career, and if not it would certainly feature in any such discussion. If I am permitted to express my subjective opinion, then I would land on the side of it being his masterpiece, comparable to both Orson […]

Joss Whedon discusses Marvel’s S.H.I.E.L.D.

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As well as launching Phase Two of its Cinematic Universe with the release of Iron Man 3 and Thor: The Dark World, Marvel is also hoping to branch out into live-action television this year with S.H.I.E.L.D., the pilot episode of which has been co-written and directed by The Avengers mastermind Joss Whedon. Having wrapped filming […]

R.I.P Richard Briers (1934-2013)

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R.I.P Richard Briers The actor Richard Briers, best known for his role as Tom Good on the hit 70s BBC comedy The Good Life, has passed away at the age of 79. According to his agent the star died “peacefully” at his home in London on Sunday. In a fairly recent interview, Briers said that […]

Community Season 4 – Episode 2 Review

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Scott Davis reviews the second episode of Community season four… “Hallo-tine” (Halloween on Valentine’s Day) time on Community this week, as Season 4 does its season staple Halloween episode, hoping for the success of the previous episodes, all of which were undoubted highlights in each of the previous season. Sadly, the cracks are beginning to […]

The Walking Dead Season 3 – Episode 9 Review

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Piers McCarthy reviews the ninth episode of The Walking Dead season 3… Much to some readers’ consternation, I felt the midseason finale of The Walking Dead’s third season wasn’t all that wonderful. It was still energetic, visceral and enjoyable (bettering the majority of contemporary television) but was noticeably poorer than the 7 episodes that had […]