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24 was a flagship show for FOX for nearly a decade. It featured the central character of Jack Bauer, an anti-terrorism task-force leader who found himself plunged into a terrorist conspiracy and for which he only had the titular amount of hours to unravel the plot. Each of the...
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Like many a franchise, the Terminator movies have had their ups and downs and it is generally considered that beyond the first two films (both directed by James Cameron) and an ambitious but ratings-challenged FOX tv series, The Sarah Connor Chronicles (featuring Lena Heady and Summer Glau), the subsequent...
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M. Night Shyamalan burst onto the scene with 1999’s superb The Sixth Sense, still considered a classic slice of cinema. Much was predicted for the writer / director but his 2000 follow-up, Unbreakable – also featuring Bruce Willis, now alongside Samuel L. Jackson – was not quite what was...
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Godzilla has been a mainstay for eastern cinema for decades but his Hollywood vacations have been more problematic. The 1998 version starring Matthew Broderick and Jean Reno promised a croc of epic proportions but turned out to be a crock of something else entirely. In 2014, Warner Bros. tried...
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Though it’s been known for several weeks now, the SDCC panel for The Walking Dead was the first time that the cast and AMC have officially acknowledged that Andrew Lincoln will be departing the hit show at some point in the forthcoming season (which, once more, is due to...
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There was once a time when Joss Whedon could do no wrong. Projects such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Firefly remain touchstones of the fantasy genre that affected many a project that came after them; he was heavily involved with Dollhouse, Agents of SHIELD (showrun by brother...
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Robocop, directed by Paul Verhoeven, is one of those seminal touchstones of the action genre, its blend of unapologetic hard-boiled violence with an often under-appreciated vein of satire about society and its throwaway culture (prediction: a reality-show President – who knew?) arguably way ahead of its time. The original...
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As even the most casual of Stephen King fans know, a lot of his stories take place in or around the town of Castle Rock, the fictional Maine enclave which has seen murderous clowns, possessed cars, rabid dogs and no shortage of dead bodies and deadly intents. So perhaps...
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A group of people slowly make their way around the ramshackle remains of a small city store – its staff, inhabitants and a majority of its stock now long gone. It’s soon clear that this isn’t some opportunistic theft, but a family on the wrong side of something recent...
24 was a flagship show for FOX for nearly a decade. It featured the central character of Jack Bauer, an anti-terrorism task-force leader who found himself plunged into a terrorist conspiracy and for which he only had the titular amount of hours to unravel the plot. Each of the...
Like many a franchise, the Terminator movies have had their ups and downs and it is generally considered that beyond the first two films (both directed by James Cameron) and an ambitious but ratings-challenged FOX tv series, The Sarah Connor Chronicles (featuring Lena Heady and Summer Glau), the subsequent...
M. Night Shyamalan burst onto the scene with 1999’s superb The Sixth Sense, still considered a classic slice of cinema. Much was predicted for the writer / director but his 2000 follow-up, Unbreakable – also featuring Bruce Willis, now alongside Samuel L. Jackson – was not quite what was...
Godzilla has been a mainstay for eastern cinema for decades but his Hollywood vacations have been more problematic. The 1998 version starring Matthew Broderick and Jean Reno promised a croc of epic proportions but turned out to be a crock of something else entirely. In 2014, Warner Bros. tried...
Though it’s been known for several weeks now, the SDCC panel for The Walking Dead was the first time that the cast and AMC have officially acknowledged that Andrew Lincoln will be departing the hit show at some point in the forthcoming season (which, once more, is due to...
There was once a time when Joss Whedon could do no wrong. Projects such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Firefly remain touchstones of the fantasy genre that affected many a project that came after them; he was heavily involved with Dollhouse, Agents of SHIELD (showrun by brother...
Robocop, directed by Paul Verhoeven, is one of those seminal touchstones of the action genre, its blend of unapologetic hard-boiled violence with an often under-appreciated vein of satire about society and its throwaway culture (prediction: a reality-show President – who knew?) arguably way ahead of its time. The original...
As even the most casual of Stephen King fans know, a lot of his stories take place in or around the town of Castle Rock, the fictional Maine enclave which has seen murderous clowns, possessed cars, rabid dogs and no shortage of dead bodies and deadly intents. So perhaps...
A group of people slowly make their way around the ramshackle remains of a small city store – its staff, inhabitants and a majority of its stock now long gone. It’s soon clear that this isn’t some opportunistic theft, but a family on the wrong side of something recent...
