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  • La Brea’king Bad. Template show is another land of the LOST…

    On a sunny morning, the (relative) calm of a packed LA freeway is disturbed by a cracking of the sidewalk… and then a chasm, quickly becoming the biggest sink-hole ever recorded.  Buildings start to topple, vehicles fall… and so do people. Families are suddenly torn apart and separated, but...
  • Johansson & Disney finish their Endgame and Infinity War of words…

    UPDATE – 30th September: Scarlett Johansson and Disney appear to have stepped back from the edge of vitriolic exchanges – ones  that had many commentators saying that whatever the merits of the actual case, the ‘House of the Mouse’ had acted very questionably in its personal criticism of Johansson...
  • Evil’s Love, Death and Taxes: The spirit is willing, the flesh is weak…

    The IRS approaches the church when a denomination of the Church of Satan applies for tax-free status under religious remits. The massive and powerful institution that is the IRS figures that a team working with another massive and powerful institution, the Catholic Church, might be in a great position...
  • The Walking Dead’s Quiet Place: If these walls could talk…

    As the long-lost Connie and Virgil seek to escape the pursuing mob of the undead, they think they might have found salvation in an old house. But even as the zombies circle outside, Connie begins to sense there’s something off in the house. She can’t hear anything, but she...
  • Incisive Netflix to give Hemsworth another ‘Extraction’…

    Chris Hemsworth, hot off his Marvel Cinematic Universe job, frontlined Netflix‘s 2020 film Extraction. Though a throwback to a more traditional gung-ho age, the film – based on the graphic novel Ciudad by Ande Parks, penned by Avengers: Endgame‘s Joe Russo (and directed by Sam Hargrave) it became one...
  • Applying Foundation: Ambitious, classic sf adaption builds slowly…

    A group of children on the desolate planet of Terminus try to breach the defenses of a legendary beacon, only to be driven back by a force-field that doesn’t seem to allow anyone through. Only one person can even get close, its warden Salvor Hardin (Leah Harvey) and she...
  • Breaking: Doctor Who goes back to the future for next showrunner…

    Fans have been expecting news regarding the future of Doctor Who for a while. After months of rumours it was announced that current star Jodie Whittaker and current show-runner Chris Chibnall would both be departing after the current series and three 2022 specials… but that left the question of...
  • Hammered Time: The Asgardian Dude abides in a What If..? party favour…

    Though half-brother Loki has been the proverbial thorn in the side of the God of Thunder he was also a factor in Thor learning to balance his love of the broth-spilling party-life with his general godly responsibilities. In another reality, denied that influence, Thor has no reason to be...
  • Comma Denominators: Apostrophe’d NCIS variant heads to Hawai’i…

    When a jet-fighter crashes into a Hawai’ian mountainside, Jane Tennant, the head of NCIS’s Pearl Harbor office has to leave her daughter’s baseball game to be flown from the playing-field to the site of the crash. There she has to fight  – very effectively – to assert control of...
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