Category: Features
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Nick Picks | Will Star Wars: The Force Awakens Score a Best Picture Nomination?
If Star Wars: The Force Awakens does live up to the hype, could it get into the Best Picture race? Read More >
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Krampus – A Look Inside Featurette
Krampus, a darkly festive tale of a yuletide ghoul, reveals an irreverently twisted side to the holiday. Read More >
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Where is The Leftovers headed now?
*Spoiler warning, do not read if you haven’t watched Season 2: Episode 7 – “A Most Powerful Adversary.”* It’s been a hard road for Kevin Garvey; the dark, possibly psychotic main character of HBO’s The Leftovers. In last week’s episode, “A Most Powerful Adversary”, Kevin (Justin Theroux) began the day handcuffed to his bed. A… Read More >
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Star Wars in 30 Seconds
With Stars Wars: The Force Awakens now just a month away, we’ve put together a video overview of all the Star Wars movies in 30 seconds. Beware spoilers… Read More >
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Should Elsa’s Love Interest be Female in Frozen 2?
Excluding The Rescuers Down Under and Fantasia 2000, Disney has avoided producing animated theatrical sequels. Of course they did put out a slew of needless direct-to-video sequels between 1994 and 2008. Seeing how Frozen became the highest-grossing animated film of all time and still has people singing along with the soundtrack, though, it isn’t surprising… Read More >
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The Green-Light | Why one scene in Jurassic World almost made me like it as much as the original
Welcome to The Green-Light, a new column from Gary Green. Find within spittle-flecked passion and encyclopaedic insight on everything to do with the movies. I love practical effects. I also love CGI, when it’s done right. Truly great effects can transport you further into the world of the movie, helping to create living, breathing characters… Read More >
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Why Game of Thrones is likely to win the Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series this year
For several weeks, audiences generally complained that nothing was happening this season on Game of Thrones. What those people failed to realize, is that there’s a difference between a show being slow and taking its time to build things up… Read More >
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The Master of the Light: Andrew Lesnie’s greatest moments
Following his death, there’s been an outpouring of love for cinematographer Andrew Lesnie’s work from film fans all over the world. Best known as the man who shot Middle-Earth, he worked with Peter Jackson on the Lord of the Rings films (and the latest Hobbit trilogy to boot); but apart from giving New Zealand’s tourism… Read More >
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The MCU Diary – Thor: The Dark World
In this series, I’ll be watching all the movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe so far. Working through the films one-by-one, I’ll dig into the good – and bad – of the immensely popular franchise, starting with 2008’s Iron Man, and ending with 2014’s Guardians of the Galaxy. Read on and refresh yourselves with these characters before Avengers: Age of… Read More >
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The MCU Diary – Thor
In this series, I’ll be watching all the movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to date. Working through the films one-by-one, I’ll dig into the good – and bad – of the immensely popular franchise, starting with 2008’s Iron Man, and ending with 2014’s Guardians of the Galaxy. Read on and refresh yourselves with these characters before Avengers: Age of… Read More >
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