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Civil War comic writer Mark Millar was not a fan of the film and felt it was too bleak

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The film may have made over $1 billion for Marvel and Disney this year, but the man who wrote the comic on which its based – Flickering Myth’s friend Mark Millar – felt the film was too bleak. “Civil War had a good opening twenty mins, but then I honestly can’t remember what the movie […]

Deadpool goes to war with his wife in Til Death Do Us crossover

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Deadpool and Shiklah’s marital problems are set to reach a whole new level this March, as The Merc with a Mouth is forced to choose sides when Queen of the Monster Metropolis declares war on humanity in the six-issue crossover event Deadpool: Til Death Do Us…, which will run through the pages of Deadpool, Spider-Man/Deadpool and Deadpool […]

Logan Marshall-Green to star in Leigh Whannell’s sci-fi thriller Stem

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Logan Marshall-Green (Prometheus) has signed on to star in Stem, a sci-fi thriller from writer-director Leigh Whannell (Saw, Insidious), which is set to go into production in Whannell’s home town of Melbourne, Australia. THR is reporting that the project “is set in a near-future when technology controls nearly all aspects of life and centers on […]

12 Days of Christmas Horror: Day 6 – Child’s Play (1988)

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Child’s Play, 1988. Directed by Tom Holland. Starring Brad Dourif, Alex Vincent, Catherine Hicks and Chris Sarandon. SYNOPSIS: Widowed mother Karen is eager for her young son Andy to have the best birthday possible so she buys him a Good Guy doll named Chucky, a toy that Andy had been desperate to have. After her […]

Blu-ray Review – Hellgate (1989)

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Hellgate, 1989. Directed by William A. Levey. Starring Ron Palillo, Abigail Wolcott, Carel Trichardt, Petrea Curran and Evan J. Klisser. SYNOPSIS: A beautiful young woman murdered in the 1950s by a motorcycle gang returns from the dead after her father finds a magic crystal to revive her. In the 1950s a ruthless biker gang kidnap […]

Will Smith suffers worst box office opening of his career with Collateral Beauty

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Will Smith may have enjoyed a solid box office hit earlier in the year with Warner Bros.’ DC ensemble Suicide Squad giving him the biggest opening weekend of his career, but he’s ended 2016 on a sour note, with his new film Collateral Beauty doing the exact opposite. The movie, which sees Smith starring alongside […]

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them tops $700 million worldwide

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While Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was topping the charts around the globe, Warner Bros.’ Harry Potter spinoff Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them passed another box office milestone this weekend as it crossed the $700 million mark worldwide. Fantastic Beasts has grossed $207.7 million domestically and now has a total of $717.5 […]

Video Game Review – Space Hulk: Deathwing

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Andy O’Flaherty reviews Space Hulk: Deathwing… Ever since the original Space Hulk board-game was released by Games Workshop in 1989 there have been many computer games that have born the name, and pretty much all of them have been slow-paced strategic titles that require patience and planning to succeed.  For those familiar with Space Hulk, […]

Blu-ray Review – Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988)

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Hell Comes to Frogtown, 1988. Directed by Donald G. Jackson & R.J. Kizer. Starring Roddy Piper, Sandahl Bergman, Julius LeFlore, RCB, William Smith and Brian Frank. SYNOPSIS: In a post-nuclear war USA, a fertile man is sent into mutant territory to rescue the last fertile women in the country in order to replenish the human […]