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Being the directors of the film which is nanoseconds away form being the most successful of all time (Avengers: Endgame for those of you hiding under a rock) gives you a certain amount of clout and the ability to quick and choose what your next projects will be. The...
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When Bryan Singer cast Brandon Routh as the ‘Last Son of Krypton’ for 2006’s Superman Returns, it was perhaps the one thing that film got entirely right. In a production that otherwise sought to mine some of the goodwill and continuity of the Christopher Reeve / Richard Donner era,...
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“I feel the need – the need for speed…” is probably one of cinema’s best-known movie taglines and 1986’s Top Gun has, in many ways, remained a benchmark for a certain type of cinema. The Tom Cruise vehicle was the kind of testosterone, high-risks story that combines the bonafide...
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Local Kyoto authorities and news-services have reported that an unidentified male in his 40s entered the three-storey premises of respected studio Kyoto Animation (KyoAni) early Thursday morning local time and after shouting ‘Drop Dead’ several times, deliberately set fires with gasoline and ignited them. The fire – one of...
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For some time, New Zealand-born director Taika Waititi’s name has been associated with the much-discussed live-action version of cult eastern sci-fi epic Akira – originally the manga story and then as an ambitious animated film released in 1988. Though no names had been announced, it was known Waititi was...
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007 to be black and female??? Yes it’s the kind of click-bait news designed to cause much gnashing of teeth and angst among the die-hard party-faithful who haven’t actually read the important specific detail beyond that headline… For several years there’s been talk about the next Bond being black...
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Most horror fans will attest to the fact that 2016’s Train to Busan (directed by Yeong Sang-ho) was one of the best and – ironically – ‘fresh’ zombie movies to come out in a long while. None of the shuffling, shambling cadavers of The Walking Dead here, but fast-moving,...
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Michael Chiklis, who moved from family-friendly fare such as The Commish to make such an impact in FX‘s The Shield – before going on to star in projects including two Fantastic Four movies (as Ben Grimm) and more recently appeared in Gotham, is about to executive produce and star...
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Of late, Disney has been looking back at its many prestigious animated hits – such as Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin and reviving them as live-action productions (or in the case of the imminent The Lion King, a different, CGI approach). The next production will be a version...
Being the directors of the film which is nanoseconds away form being the most successful of all time (Avengers: Endgame for those of you hiding under a rock) gives you a certain amount of clout and the ability to quick and choose what your next projects will be. The...
When Bryan Singer cast Brandon Routh as the ‘Last Son of Krypton’ for 2006’s Superman Returns, it was perhaps the one thing that film got entirely right. In a production that otherwise sought to mine some of the goodwill and continuity of the Christopher Reeve / Richard Donner era,...
“I feel the need – the need for speed…” is probably one of cinema’s best-known movie taglines and 1986’s Top Gun has, in many ways, remained a benchmark for a certain type of cinema. The Tom Cruise vehicle was the kind of testosterone, high-risks story that combines the bonafide...
Local Kyoto authorities and news-services have reported that an unidentified male in his 40s entered the three-storey premises of respected studio Kyoto Animation (KyoAni) early Thursday morning local time and after shouting ‘Drop Dead’ several times, deliberately set fires with gasoline and ignited them. The fire – one of...
For some time, New Zealand-born director Taika Waititi’s name has been associated with the much-discussed live-action version of cult eastern sci-fi epic Akira – originally the manga story and then as an ambitious animated film released in 1988. Though no names had been announced, it was known Waititi was...
007 to be black and female??? Yes it’s the kind of click-bait news designed to cause much gnashing of teeth and angst among the die-hard party-faithful who haven’t actually read the important specific detail beyond that headline… For several years there’s been talk about the next Bond being black...
Most horror fans will attest to the fact that 2016’s Train to Busan (directed by Yeong Sang-ho) was one of the best and – ironically – ‘fresh’ zombie movies to come out in a long while. None of the shuffling, shambling cadavers of The Walking Dead here, but fast-moving,...
Michael Chiklis, who moved from family-friendly fare such as The Commish to make such an impact in FX‘s The Shield – before going on to star in projects including two Fantastic Four movies (as Ben Grimm) and more recently appeared in Gotham, is about to executive produce and star...
Of late, Disney has been looking back at its many prestigious animated hits – such as Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin and reviving them as live-action productions (or in the case of the imminent The Lion King, a different, CGI approach). The next production will be a version...
Surprising almost no-one, the BBC confirmed today that their collaboration with Disney+ on Doctor Who is formally coming to an end. It had long been speculated that the lack...
It’s said that the Doomsday Clock has stood at just a few minutes to midnight’ for a long time, philosophers and pundits alike noting that, if anything, the midnight...
Michael Connelly often has his finger on the pulse of interesting issues, but reading a preview copy of The Proving Ground in a week where the dangers of AI,...
I’ll be honest: I’m a sucker for a good cat-and-mouse story and in this era of fast-evolving tech and surveillance, characters staying one step ahead of their pursuers can...