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New Mortal Kombat 11 trailer reveals the greatest super-villain of them all

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Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and NetherRealm Studios have revealed a new Mortal Kombat 11 trailer showcasing possibly the most iconic supervillain of all time, The Joker.  The chaotic clown will be arriving in Mortal Kombat 11 on 28th January as one of the Kombat Pack roster of fighters.  Check out Gotham’s most notorious villain in […]

The Top Ten Film Scores of 2019

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Hasitha Fernando on the top ten film scores of 2019… In terms of films both original and otherwise, 2019 proved to be quite a strong one. Although the box-office landscape was largely dominated by a plethora of comic-book films there were a great many creatively inspiring films like Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story, Rian Johnson’s Knives […]

Flickering Myth’s Top Ten Movies of 2019

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The Flickering Myth writing team present our top ten movies of 2019… 2019. A year that has seen Disney dominating the multiplexes, the Mouse House setting records left, right and centre (not least Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame, which dethroned 2009’s Avatar to become the highest-grossing film of all-time). It’s seen legendary filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese […]

First look preview of Joker/Harley: Criminal Sanity #3

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DC Comics releases Joker/Harley: Criminal Sanity #3 next month, and we have an unlettered first look preview of the issue for you here… Gotham City Has Never Needed a Hero More! Joker/Harley: Criminal Sanity continues Harley Quinn follows the evidence-and it leads her to a dangerous conclusion: she might know the true identity of the […]

Movie Review – Joker (2019)

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Joker, 2019. Directed by Todd Phillips. Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Zazie Beetz, Robert De Niro, Brett Cullen, Frances Conroy, Douglas Hodge, Shea Whigham, Marc Maron, Bryan Callen, Bill Camp, Josh Pais, Glenn Fleshler, Dante Pereira-Olson, and Brian Tyree Henry. SYNOPSIS: A gritty character study of Arthur Fleck, a man disregarded by society. Here’s a killing joke: […]

Kathy Bates praises Joaquin Phoenix’s performance as Arthur Fleck in Joker

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American Horror Story and Misery star Kathy Bates has praised Joaquin Phoenix’s Golden Globe-winning performance as Arthur Fleck in the Todd Phillips directed film, Joker. In an interview with Deadline, Bates said she found Phoenix’s performance to be “electrifying” and it has inspired her to “do better” with her own performances and to see what’s possible. “Well, recently […]

Margot Robbie confirms that Jared Leto’s Joker won’t be appearing in Birds of Prey

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Margot Robbie, who is known for playing Harley Quinn, has confirmed Jared Leto’s Joker won’t be included in the upcoming Birds of Prey (And The Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), “not even as a cameo,” during a recent interview with Variety. During Suicide Squad, Robbie says she “fell in love with” Harley Quinn, though […]

Todd Phillips doesn’t believe the success of Joker is tied to Batman

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Todd Phillips, the director of the hugely successful Joker, believes the success of the film is not due to the character’s affiliation to Batman. In a recent interview with Deadline, during their The Contenders New York Event, Phillips was asked if the Joker’s ties to the Dark Knight made it successful, to which he responded with […]

Kevin Smith claims Joker originally had a much darker alternative ending

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While Warner Bros. and DC Films’ Joker wasn’t the most cheerful of films to begin with, filmmaker and comic book fan Kevin Smith has claimed that the movie originally had an ever bleaker ending – one that would have seen Joaquin Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck gunning down not only Thomas and Martha Wayne, but poor young […]