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The Worst Movie Action Scenes of 2017

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Harrison Abbott on the worst movie action scenes of 2017… In Absentia Luci, Tenebrae Vincunt – In the Absence of Light, Darkness Prevails. Likewise, in the absence of competence, asinine garbage will invariably triumph. Which means that for all the recent advancements in cinematic technique and film-making technology, you can always count on some hack to […]

Cinema’s Damaged Heroine

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Sarah Myles on cinema’s damaged heroine… “Badass.” As a word, it has become synonymous with determined women in movies. Why? Because that is how critics routinely describe them. “Black Widow gets extra bad-ass in this Avengers 2 trailer,” said Rob Bricken of i09. In Atomic Blonde, Charlize Theron plays “a career badass who enjoys both […]

Thor: Ragnarok has surpassed Wonder Woman at the global box office

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Marvel’s Thor: Ragnarok has now moved past DC’s Wonder Woman at the global box office. Much is said about the Marvel/DC rivalry, and while none of it really matters, it is certainly interesting to see how various superhero movies perform at the box office compared to one another. Thor: Ragnarok has been doing particularly well […]

American Film Institute announces AFI Top Ten for 2017

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The American Film Institute has announced its list of the top ten U.S. movies of 2017: The Big Sick Call Me By Your Name Dunkirk The Florida Project Get Out Lady Bird The Post The Shape of Water Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Wonder Woman The above films will all be hoping to pick up […]

Justice League performance leads to huge DC restructure at Warner Bros.

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Justice League might be edging towards $600m at the global box-office, but with Wonder Woman making much more than that on her own, the largely derided Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice nearing $900 million for its entire run, and Marvel’s equivalent superhero mashup, The Avengers topping out at $1.5 billion, there is no other way […]

Warner Bros. has eclipsed $5 billion at the 2017 global box office

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Led by Wonder Woman, Warner Bros. has gone past $5 billion at the 2017 worldwide box office, Variety has revealed. It’s been a big year for Warner Bros. at the box office, featuring some big surprise hits and some more obvious wins. On Tuesday, the studio announced that this is the eighth time in nine years […]

Patty Jenkins talks Wonder Woman 2 plans

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With Patty Jenkins currently hard at work on the script for Wonder Woman 2 with Dave Callaham (The Expendables) and DC’s Geoff Johns, the filmmaker has been speaking to Variety about the sequel to this year’s blockbuster superhero origin story, teasing what we can expect from the 2019 release. “It’s really still going to other […]

Failing On The Basics: Why You Can’t Fix a Film Which Never Had the Right Foundations

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Tom Jolliffe on why trying to salvage a film in post production is pointless if you never had the basics right in the first place… So Justice League came out. I’d say too much fanfare but whilst there was undoubtedly excitement, and whilst it has inevitably made a lot of money already (not as much […]