Spider-Man’s most AMAZING friend

As a kid growing up in the 1980s, your CultBox correspondent had several pre-adolescent crushes on female characters in imported cartoon series. Two that immediately spring to mind are Princess in Battle of the Planets and Sheila, the Thief from Dungeons and Dragons. Whether that was because they both had a tendency – thanks to … >

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Win ‘Project X’ on Blu-ray™ Triple Play!

To celebrate the release of Project X on Blu-ray Triple Play, DVD and Digital Download on 2nd July, we’ve got copies of Project X on Blu-ray Triple Play (includes Blu-ray, DVD and UltraViolet™ Digital Copy) to give away to five of our Twitter followers! > Buy the DVD on Amazon. For a chance to win, … >

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‘Look out, he is a Spider-Pig!’

One of the most memorable moments in the enjoyably average Simpsons movie was Homer’s adopting of a porcine pet. Here, with visuals provided by whoever uploaded it to YouTube, is the full song from the end of the film. Ironically, given that the pig also adopts the guise of Harry Plopper later in the picture, … >

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Spider-Man and the World Trade Centre, Summer 2001

In July 2001, the first teaser trailer for Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man was released to cinemas. By the time the film itself appeared a year later, the promo had long since been withdrawn and none of the footage it contained was apparent anywhere in the finished movie. Why? Well, according to distributors Sony, the sequence was … >

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Win a set of gangster movie DVDs!

To celebrate the DVD release of The Rise and Fall of a White Collar Hooligan, we’ve got sets of the movie plus The Football Factory on DVD to give away to three of our Twitter followers! For a chance to win, just follow CultBox on Twitter and tweet the following text: Follow @cultboxtv and RT … >

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Win a set of epic classic movies on Blu-ray!

To celebrate the release of silver screen classics Lion of the Desert and The Message on Blu-ray, we’ve got sets of both Blu-rays to give away to three of our Twitter followers! For a chance to win, just follow CultBox on Twitter and tweet the following text: Follow @cultboxtv and RT for a chance to … >

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‘Total Recall’ or total rip-off?

The cinematic remake is a tricky thing to pull off successfully – particularly if the movie being modernised was a smash-hit in the first place. The best thing to do, of course, is to reboot the franchise and pretty much ignore what went before, as Christopher Nolan did with Batman – and provided the studio … >

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