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Manzur Iqbal, AKA Futurecop!, is an artist from the UK creating futuristic and cinematic sounds in the synthwave genre. We chatted. FinalBoss: How did you first start “Futurecop!”? Your bio says that you had no previous music experience. What made you decide to find some? Futurecop!: Around 2005 I heard the track In My Arms […]

Earlier this year a fan film titled “MICHAEL vs JASON: Evil Emerges” was uploaded to Youtube. It was an ambitious, low-budget movie that follows an encounter between two of Horror’s biggest, baddest figures in a fight to the death. The gritty 30-minute short currently has over 11 million views online and was featured on huge […]

Breaking news out of Dillydale today, as Mr Tickle becomes the latest in a string of celebrity personalities to be embroiled in on-the-job harassment controversy. Described as being ‘too hands on‘ by unnamed victims, Mr Tickle faced questions outside his home. Jon Holmes has the full story. Star of both screen and page, Mr Tickle’s […]

In, what is without a doubt, our biggest interview so far, FinalBoss talk to indie filmmaker Benjamin Dickinson. From plucky beginnings as one of the Waverly Films alumni, Benjamin has worked for major ad brands and even bigger music artists such as Reggie Watts, Killer Mike and Yoko Ono. In 2015, Dickinson released his feature […]

Artspear Entertainment are the creators of the Toon Sandwich brand on Youtube. Headed up by proud Aussie creators/performers Rita Artmann and Joe Bauer, they are known for their comical takes on the superhero genre through their animated work – and elsewhere, their low budget efforts in the live action realm. Through their extraordinarily successful animated […]

Jo Roy is a Canadian director working in the music industry sector. She is currently making, frankly, some of the most creative music videos on the web – most recently showcasing Meg Myer’s incredible Running Up That Hill; an energetic video bursting with invention that was hand-coloured by school children. Via email, FinalBoss awkwardly extended […]

With her Youtube channel at now over 120 thousand subs, Tina Tran found recent viral success with her “Stranger Things Audition Tape Parts 1 & 2”. Using a green screen and editing herself in to the background of the latest season, she creates a perfect mix of Uncanny Valley meets peak Fan-Girling. FinalBoss reached out […]

You’ve heard about it, your Uncle’s talked about it, and your mums probably even played it…  World of Warcraft: Classic is being released on Tuesday, 27th August 2019. Heralding the arrival of new adventurers and returning veterans to one of the most popular MMORPGs ever, World of Warcraft: Classic promises to be the (debatably) authentic […]

April 2019 saw the release of Anno 1800, the seventh addition to the Anno series. Let’s get to our Anno 1800 review. Quickly, this title picked up positive reviews and actually became the fastest-selling Anno game ever released. While the PC RTS rarely sees the love and hype that it used to, Anno 1800 seems […]

Steve Sterlacchini and Steve Green worked together in various creative roles on Judge Minty, a 2000 AD fan short. The pair followed up their working relationship by collaborating on Search/Destroy: A Strontium Dog Fan Film, a few years later. Both shorts found their audience almost immediately, with big supporters in on the Hollywood scene more […]

Jon from Jon Breaks Bad News is an American man in his late 20s who is tasked with breaking bad news to unsuspecting people. His Facebook page currently has over 60 thousand followers, all watching eagerly as he breaks the news with a dishevelled beard and the bluntest of approaches. Via email, we talked about […]

Ethan Aguilar is the main creator of the Facebook phenomenon STORM AREA 51 group. At the time of writing, the page stands at 13 thousand fans. Hysteria around the event gained so much coverage even the US government has released a statement addressing it. Before he can get his filthy human hands on a fresh […]

Having been in the filmmaking industry since the early 90s, Teo Smoot has seen a lot of what goes on in Hollywood. Via email, we talked about his infamous whip scene from Starship Troopers, (sort of) working with Pamela Anderson and even a bit of nude sun bathing… As expected, Teo’s a really cool guy […]

Ctrl Shift Face is a creator on Youtube, recently finding viral fame through his videos of actors faces mapped against others to make it appear as if they are someone else – their most current work shows us what it would be like if Jim Carrey had starred in The Shining. But this isn’t just […]

HBO’s latest sleeper-hit, Chernobyl, has taken on a life of its own.  Currently sporting a 9.5 rating on IMDB, it’s being touted as one of the best TV series ever made. An emotional rollercoaster from start to finish, the series ends with what can only be described as an epic information dump about what happened […]

Via Skype, FinalBoss talked to director David Walton Smith from his home in Charleston. With a five hour gap between us, David came off as open and frank about his work; the industry as a whole, and was refreshingly down to Earth as he spoke with a voice that jumped between an American accent occasionally […]

Apex Legends finally has new content! This comes in the form of new hop-ups, map changes and a whole slew of weapon and character changes, breathing new life into the meta of the game. Below are all the changes for your convenience! Weapons New Airdrop Weapon: L-STAR EMG [ watch it in action here ] This can […]

If there’s one thing that the majority of Game of Thrones fans seem to agree on, it’s that the final series did not live up to their expectations. It’s no surprise that such an invested fandom, which has spent nearly 10 years with these characters, has strong opinions about the end of the epic series. […]

EDIT: Since publishing this post, Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons, talking at Comic Con 2019 has come out and confirmed that a second Simpsons movie will happen… eventually! Let me start this off by saying that this definitely is not happening. But instead that you, dear reader, should treat this post as a “What […]

HBO and Sky’s five-episode series, “Chernobyl”, has been a grim treat. Painting the 1980s catastrophe as a fictionalised real-life horror series, both putting a spotlight on the victims but in an accessible and perversely watchable eye line, and in turn bringing a whole new sense of how we use the term “EVENT” to describe a […]

We constantly reminisce about our childhood memories; the life-changing experiences with our family and friends that will always be embedded in our minds. For the modern individual, with many of us being introduced to the gaming world from a young age, video games now play a big part in this. Think back to the ‘good […]

SPOILERS FOR GAME OF THRONES SEASON 8 AHEAD Like many Game of Thrones fans, I viewed the final episodes of Season 8 with a growing sense of dread. As a diehard Dany fan, I watched in horror as she burned King’s Landing and its citizens to the ground, shocking her closest advisors and ultimately prompting […]

Game of Thrones is over sob and while some fans feel that the ending was too random, others say that it was foreshadowed from the start. Whether you agree with how the show finished or not, here are five times Game of Thrones hinted at how the show would end, starting way back in Season […]

This weekend Disney’s Live Action remake of Aladdin opened in cinemas across the UK. FinalBoss journeyed back to the bustling streets of Agrabah to see whether Will Smith’s Genie was as fresh and princely as we were expecting and if Guy Ritchie could resist giving everyone cockney accents. While Ritchie, Smith and the principal actors […]