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Zack Snyder explains why he didn’t cast Grant Gustin as The Flash in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

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When Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice arrives in cinemas this week, it won’t just be the Trinity assembling on the big screen. The movie is also set to feature cameo appearances from Justice League members Aquaman, Cyborg and The Flash. Somewhat disappointingly for fans of The CW’s hit superhero show, it won’t be Grant […]

The Flash Season 2 Episode 14 Review – ‘Escape from Earth-2’

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Jessie Robertson reviews the fourteenth episode of The Flash season 2… When your doppelgänger kisses your wife, you most certainly will have words with him! We return to Earth-2 this week (sans all the glorious Easter eggs from last week) to finish up the trek into Zoom’s side of the world. I honestly thought more […]

Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One pushed back to avoid Star Wars: Episode VIII, The Flash moved up a week

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The domino effect of Disney’s decision to push Star Wars: Episode VIII back to December 2017 continues, with Warner Bros. announcing that it has moved Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One to March 30th 2018. The Ready Player One adaptation was originally set for release on December 15th 2017, a date now occupied by Rian Johnson’s Episode VIII. To make room […]

The Flash Season 2 Episode 12 Review – ‘Fast Lane’

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Jessie Robertson reviews the twelfth episode of The Flash season 2… Iris West can be my fly-flag girl anytime! Tonight there was an anamoly, like the Singularity. We had one really compelling inner struggle going on and one really contrived flat story with an awful payoff. Where should we begin? As usual, Tom Kavanaugh (Harrison […]

The Flash Season 2 Episode 11 Review – ‘The Reverse-Flash Returns’

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Jessie Robertson reviews the eleventh episode of The Flash season 2… If anyone’s going to Big Belly, I’ll take 2 Triple-Triple’s please! Ok, now Patty’s gone….I think- This week was all about turning back the clock, er…I mean, erasing history….well, let’s start with the easy stuff. Patty, before she left, did some digging into Barry’s […]

Grant Gustin says he didn’t “bash” Ezra Miller as The Flash; fully endorses the casting

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Over the last couple of days, The Flash TV star Grant Gustin has been favouriting a few tweets from fans who were upset that DC and Warner Bros. had decided to recast him as Barry Allen for the film version of The Flash. Some news sites took this to mean that Gustin was upset with […]

Ezra Miller confirmed to play the Barry Allen version of the Flash in the DC Extended Universe

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Ever since Ezra Miller was announced as the actor to play the big screen version of The Flash in the DC Extended Universe, fans have debated which version of the character he’d be portraying. Some believed he’d be Wally West, thanks to the fact that Barry Allen is already played by Grant Gustin on the CW. Phil […]