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After a tumultuous couple of years, reality has done well in catching up with the bleak speculative-tech fictions of Black Mirror and Weird City. Not that we’ve seen the end of this ilk of dystopian fiction on our screens, but it does seem…

It’s a strange thing to say about a film drawing from a near half-century old franchise, but oh how Ryan Coogler’s Creed felt like a breath of fresh air when it came out in 2015. It may fit the modern blockbuster mould of relying on a…

When I watch Ryan Coogler’s films (2013’s Fruitvale Station, 2015’s Creed and 2018’s Black Panther) the palpability of feeling he puts into portraying key elements of the black experience washes over me.  His movies examine how a father’s…

The Rocky movies are one of those cultural touchstones that everyone is aware of on some subconscious level, even if they’ve never actually sat down and watched one. Most people know what an ‘80s training montage' is. The Eye of the Tiger.…

The Rocky franchise isn't all that different in many ways from Star Wars. Both of them are pop icon series of films birthed in the seventies but came to epitomise the death of that decade's cinema and usher in the glossier, muscle-bound…

The first trailer for Creed, the highly anticipated new chapter in the Rocky story was released by Warner Brothers yesterday and it looks like it could be interesting, considering the quality of leading man Michael B. Jordan who was…