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Loki season 2 concluded with the titular immortal finally embracing the burden of his Glorious Purpose. To save not just the Sacred Timeline, but also its alternate strands, the God of Mischief became the God of Stories, taking He Who Remains’ place and overseeing the timelines. Meanwhile, the TVA’s focus …

Amazon has not forgotten about the film fans this Black Friday. Today, Friday, November 17, 2023, marks the first day of the Black Friday Week event the retail giant has just started. Included in the endless air fryer and beauty deals are a number of massive DVD and Blu-ray discounts. …

But there’s also a far older one, made when the big social networks were MySpace and Friends Reunited. “Prepare to have the stuffing scared out of you” ran the tagline of Roth’s fake promo for a then non-existent video nasty which featured in Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s 2007 horror …

If you’ve watched Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s 2007 double feature Grindhouse then you may have a sense of déjà vu about this movie, as the premise was one of the fake trailers that featured in that movie.  Created by director Eli Roth, who is known for films that have …

It was 45 years ago today that the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special aired on the American TV channel CBS. A year earlier in 1977, Star Wars had smashed box office records becoming the highest-grossing movie of all time. But before The Empire Strikes Back, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and …

Here, the director of the final three films based on Suzanne Collins’s trilogy sticks with a winning formula with a tale set six decades before Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss was forced to fight for her life in the deadly reality TV show. It’s another heady mix of teen romance, glamorous frocks, …

Back in 1950, John Wayne starred in Rio Grande, the third of his Cavalry Trilogy (alongside Fort Apache and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon) with director John Ford. Cast and crew struggled terribly with the extremely hot Utah location, with sets and stages having to be built in such challenging …

The Fantastic Four have not had a great run at the cinema, with both iterations by 20th Century Fox being panned by the critics. Nevertheless, now that Disney has the rights the MCU can finally do Marvel’s First Family right. We were treated to a fan-cast variant of Mr Fantastic …

Back in 1963, John Wayne starred in a Western comedy loosely based on William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. Duke played an ageing rancher called George Washington McLintock, a wealthy self-made man facing a number of issues. High-ranking government officials, his own sons and local Native Americans all want …

Tom Holland may be Spider-Man in Disney’s MCU thanks to a deal with Sony, but the latter studio continues to churn out Marvel villain solo movies set in other universes. Following Tom Hardy’s Venom, Jared Leto’s Morbius and the delayed Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s Kraven the Hunter comes Dakota Johnson’s Madame Web. …