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With Marvel's Avengers: Endgame crowned as the all-time box office champion (for now), toppling James Cameron's Avatar from that spot, it is clear the global audience cannot get enough o...
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With the release of Mark Hartley's documentary Not Quite Hollywood in 2008, there was a twenty-first century resurgence of interest in the genre movies coming out of Australia, specifically tho...
Babylon Berlin is a television series on a mission, a mission to prove that the best television drama in the world was not necessarily made in English and set out to create a series that would ...
For some, Detour is the greatest B-movie ever made, from the era when a second feature was simply taken for granted, even tolerated as something to get through until the main attraction began, ...
The Likely Lads was created by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais for the then-new BBC 2 channel in 1964, and was an immediate hit, with the tide turning towards placing other accents than the Sou...
Evil machines had been in vogue for science fiction in its written form for decades before the movies caught on, but although there was the occasional computer trouble in Forbidden Planet or
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