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Full list of all 44 Free Comic Book Day 2023 titles revealed

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Free Comic Book Day is back for 2023 this coming May, and today has brought a full reveal of all 44 titles that will be available from local comic book shops worldwide as part of the FCBD 2023 festivities! First up are the thirteen Gold Sponsor, which feature everything from superheroes to movies, video games […]

Sana Starros to lead new Star Wars miniseries from Marvel

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Marvel and Lucasfilm have announced that Sana Starros is set to strike out on her own this coming February with the launch of the five-issue miniseries Star Wars: Sana Starros from writer Jurstina Ireland and artist Pere Perez. “Justina and Pere give you the kind of Star Wars joy ride that old and new fans will thrill […]

Money to Burn: When Hollywood Spending Gets Silly

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Tom Jolliffe on when spending in Hollywood gets out of hand… Money is great isn’t it? It makes the world go round, and since the birth of the studio system in Hollywood, a lot of money has been thrown into creating movies. Even making films deemed lower budget can be deemed a costly exercise. Actors […]

Now Is The Time for Indie Films To Strike

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Tom Jolliffe looks at a pre-Covid rise in popularity for independent films, and a big upcoming push for content going forward… Slowly but surely, changes were afoot this time last year. It had been a progressive rise for a few years. Cinema was still monopolised by the mega budget blockbusters. In particular, Disney and every […]

Overkill: Star Wars, Marvel and Disney’s upcoming slate

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Tom Jolliffe on the next few years of content for Star Wars, Marvel and Disney… Sometimes you can have too much of a good thing. Ask my belly. He likes chocolate, but this sack of indulgence is such that my daughter used it as a bongo drum this morning and shouted ‘wobbly wobbly.’ True story. […]

Simu Liu praises Destin Daniel Cretton’s Marvel upgrade to Avengers: The Kang Dynasty director

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As Destin Daniel Cretton moves onto Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, what does that mean for his Marvel introductory character Shang-Chi? If you ask actor Simu Liu, the man who starred in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Cretton is a perfect choice for the job of reassembling Earth’s Mightiest Heroes – which may […]

A Different Landscape: The Box Office Two Years On From Avengers: Endgame

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Tom Jolliffe looks back at Avengers: Endgame, the last mega event movie. Will anything ever come close again? The simplicity of a finger snap. It was an act that brought to a close Avengers: Infinity War, where Thanos’ grand plan had come to pass. There’s no spoiler here, virtually every one with a passing interest […]

Could Last Night in Soho be Edgar Wright’s leap to greatness?

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Tom Jolliffe looks at the exciting prospects for Last Night in Soho, and a potential leap up the pantheon for Edgar Wright… Edgar Wright has been delivering nuggets of fried gold for over 20 years now. A rambunctious industry upstart got his start young, and had been in the game even before breaking out with […]

Comic Book Preview – Demon Wars: Shield of Justice #1

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Marvel releases Demon Wars: Shield of Justice #1 this Wednesday, and you can get a sneak peek at the issue below with the official preview… Iron Samurai vs. Shield of Justice! Mariko Yashida is torn between two worlds: the human world and the yokai dimension–a strange world filled with stranger creatures. The denizens of the […]