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News Round-up – Star Wars spin-offs on hold, Black Widow directors, Creed 2 trailer and more

24/06/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 1917, Alfonso Cuarón, Amma Asante, Black Widow, Cate Shortland, Creed 2, Eurovision, Guillermo del Toro, Maggie Betts, Michael B Jordan, News, News Round-up, Robert Zemeckis, Ryan Coogler, Sam Mendes, Scarlett Johansson, Spider-Man, Spider-Man: Far From Home, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Star Wars, Steven Caple Jr, Sylvester Stallone, The Witches, Tom Holland, Will Ferrell

Lucasfilm is putting a pin in the Star Wars spin-offs for a while and Marvel is eyeing female filmmakers for Black Widow.

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The Popcorn Muncher Podcast – Avengers: Infinity War Spoiler Discussion

07/05/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment Avengers, Avengers: Infinity War, Benedict Cumberbatch, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Pratt, Josh Brolin, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Podcast, Robert Downey Jr, Scarlett Johansson, Spoiler Discussion, Superhero, The Popcorn Muncher Podcast, The Russo Brothers, Tom Holland

It’s been a week or two since the release of Avengers: Infinity War, so now is the time to take a look at Marvel’s superhero team-up in spoiler-filled detail.

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Review – ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ pays off a decade of storytelling with a mad action spectacle

28/04/201828/04/2018 Luke Stevenson 0 Comment 2018, Action, April 2018, Avengers, Avengers: Infinity War, Benedict Cumberbatch, Bradley Cooper, Certificate: 12, Chadwick Boseman, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Pratt, Josh Brolin, Marvel, Rating: Pop, Road to Infinity War, Robert Downey Jr, Scarlett Johansson, Sci-Fi, Superhero, The Russo Brothers, Tom Holland, Vin Diesel, Zoe Saldana

A decade of the most ambitious movie franchise in the history of a cinema finally comes to a head with Avengers: Infinity War. But was it worth the wait?

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Review – Quirky animation ‘Isle of Dogs’ is the most Wes Anderson movie imaginable

07/04/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Animation, April 2018, Bill Murray, Bob Balaban, Bryan Cranston, Certificate: PG, Comedy, Edward Norton, Frances McDormand, Greta Gerwig, Harvey Keitel, Isle of Dogs, Jeff Goldblum, Koyu Rankin, Kunichi Nomura, Liev Schreiber, Rating: Pop, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton, Wes Anderson

Symmetrical frames and weird line readings are king in Wes Anderson’s oddball animated comedy Isle of Dogs.

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News Round-up – Golden Globe winners, BAFTA and DGA noms, DiCaprio joins Manson movie and more

15/01/201818/01/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment BAFTAs, BAFTAs 2018, Channing Tatum, DGA Awards, Ellen Page, Francis Lawrence, Gambit, Gary Oldman, Golden Globes, Golden Globes 2018, Gore Verbinski, Greta Gerwig, Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo DiCaprio, Marvel, News, News Round-up, Oprah Winfrey, Quentin Tarantino, Red Sparrow, Scarlett Johansson, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Tim Miller

Awards season is in full swing this week and there’s also a lot of stopping and starting in the world of superheroes.

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9 cool things we learned from the Avengers: Infinity War trailer

30/11/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment Avengers, Avengers: Infinity War, Benedict Cumberbatch, Benedict Wong, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Pratt, Don Cheadle, Elizabeth Olsen, Josh Brolin, Mark Ruffalo, Marvel, Paul Bettany, Paul Rudd, Robert Downey Jr, Scarlett Johansson, The Avengers, Tom Hiddleston, Tom Holland

Marvel has lifted the lid on the most ambitious blockbuster ever made, so here’s what we know about Avengers: Infinity War.

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Analysis – Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk and prioritising puzzles over people

09/09/2017 Tom Beasley 1 Comment Analysis, Anne Hathaway, Christian Bale, Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk, Fionn Whitehead, Harry Styles, Hugh Jackman, Inception, Jessica Chastain, Kenneth Branagh, Leonardo DiCaprio, Marion Cotillard, Matthew McConaughey, Rebecca Hall, Scarlett Johansson, The Prestige, Tom Hardy

Is there any humanity to Christopher Nolan? Does it matter that his films focus more on puzzles and mysteries than emotion?

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The Popcorn Muncher Podcast: Episode 71 – Is Logan Lucky a big return worthy of Steven Soderbergh?

07/09/201706/09/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment Adam Driver, Adam Wingard, Channing Tatum, Death Note, Detroit, Ed Skrein, Hellboy, Hellboy: Rise of the Blood Queen, Kathryn Bigelow, Logan Lucky, Matthew McConaughey, Podcast, Riley Keough, Rough Night, Scarlett Johansson, Steven Soderbergh, The Popcorn Muncher Podcast, Tobe Hooper, Will Poulter

Steven Soderbergh is back with Logan Lucky, Kathryn Bigelow takes on history with Detroit and Adam Wingard takes on fantasy tale Death Note.

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Review – Rough Night

04/09/201704/09/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, August 2017, Certificate: 15, Comedy, Demi Moore, Ilana Glazer, Jillian Bell, Kate McKinnon, Lucia Aniello, Paul W Downs, Rating: Poop, Rough Night, Scarlett Johansson, Ty Burrell, Zoe Kravitz

Scarlett Johansson stars alongside the corpse of a dead stripper in the woefully misjudged hen do caper Rough Night.

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Review – Ghost in the Shell

16/04/201723/04/2017 Luke Stevenson 0 Comment 2017, Action, Certificate: 12, Chin Han, Ghost in the Shell, Juliette Binoche, March 2017, Michael Pitt, Pilou Asbæk, Rating: Poop, Rupert Sanders, Scarlett Johansson, Sci-Fi, Takeshi Kitano

An anime/manga classic is remade for 2017 in Ghost in the Shell, but it has been somewhat overshadowed by a Scarlett Johansson whitewashing fiasco.

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The Popcorn Muncher Podcast: Episode 50 – Ghost in the Shell is a ghost at the multiplex

14/04/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment André Øvredal, Armie Hammer, Batgirl, Ben Wheatley, Brian Cox, Brie Larson, Emile Hirsch, Free Fire, Ghost in the Shell, Joss Whedon, Podcast, Ridley Scott, Scarlett Johansson, Sharlto Copley, Sylvester Stallone, The Autopsy of Jane Doe, The Expendables, The Expendables 4, The Popcorn Muncher Podcast, The Secret Life of Pets

Scarlett Johansson is suffering a severe box office bomb with her remake of anime classic Ghost in the Shell.

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