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There were raised eyebrows and lots of frustrations last year when Warner Bros. took a look at their financials and decided that they would take extreme measures to ensure their profit margins. In some cases this meant cancelling forthcoming projects that didn’t have a high-degree of certain success, reorganising...
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As the historic actors’ strike ends, it’s a case of ‘How we got here, how it’s going…’ It’s officially been 118 days – 2nd May – since the actors’ union SAG-AFTRA announced that its members were on strike. The combination of the WGA strike ands the actors’ strike essentially...
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After two Jack Reacher films starring Tom Cruise in 2012 and 2016, which received mixed reviews (decent story and action but controversial casting for a 6ft+ man-mountain of a character), it’s generally conceded that last year’s Reacher tv series finally got all the ingredients of Lee Child’s novels and...
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Ghostbusters has been a generationally successful franchise – the first movie (released waaaaaay back in 1984) being a landmark movie that still works today. Its 1989 sequel was not quite as popular but was still a relative hit. The female Ghostbusters reboot of 2016 was perfectly decent in and...
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Marvel‘s shows on the Disney+ platform have been divisive amongst fans – many applauding the characters getting their own shows and the initial ambition and diversity in their styles… but equally the shows have a tendency to start strong and finish weak, perhaps showing their role as ‘filler’ between...
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There’s no shortage of archive material to mine for future features and this coming March, seminal ’80s action series The Fall Guy sees an adaptation, or sorts. Ryan Gosling most recently appeared in Barbie and Emily Blunt was in Oppenheimer (the weirdest double-date of the year) and here they’re...
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Nautilus, originally commissioned in the UK by Disney+ for a potential ten-part series looked to be heading to a watery grave when Disney+ reversed its decision as part of cost-cutting and streamlining its content. However AMC has stepped up and thrown the show a lifeboat (seriously, we can do...
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It seems that 2023 is the year for timer-travel. Or was. Or will be. As everyone knows it’s the sixtieth anniversary of Doctor Who, complete with three specials starting next month and a Christmas adventure for the incoming Doctor. Quantum Leap got a second season, we’ve also had Netflix‘s...
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Over their long lives, Roderick and sister Madeline Usher have had astoundingly successful careers – they have come from nothing to head an empire with wealth, power, influence and a notorious lack of accountability. Roderick’s children – with several different mothers over the years – have also seemed to...
There were raised eyebrows and lots of frustrations last year when Warner Bros. took a look at their financials and decided that they would take extreme measures to ensure their profit margins. In some cases this meant cancelling forthcoming projects that didn’t have a high-degree of certain success, reorganising...
As the historic actors’ strike ends, it’s a case of ‘How we got here, how it’s going…’ It’s officially been 118 days – 2nd May – since the actors’ union SAG-AFTRA announced that its members were on strike. The combination of the WGA strike ands the actors’ strike essentially...
After two Jack Reacher films starring Tom Cruise in 2012 and 2016, which received mixed reviews (decent story and action but controversial casting for a 6ft+ man-mountain of a character), it’s generally conceded that last year’s Reacher tv series finally got all the ingredients of Lee Child’s novels and...
Ghostbusters has been a generationally successful franchise – the first movie (released waaaaaay back in 1984) being a landmark movie that still works today. Its 1989 sequel was not quite as popular but was still a relative hit. The female Ghostbusters reboot of 2016 was perfectly decent in and...
Marvel‘s shows on the Disney+ platform have been divisive amongst fans – many applauding the characters getting their own shows and the initial ambition and diversity in their styles… but equally the shows have a tendency to start strong and finish weak, perhaps showing their role as ‘filler’ between...
There’s no shortage of archive material to mine for future features and this coming March, seminal ’80s action series The Fall Guy sees an adaptation, or sorts. Ryan Gosling most recently appeared in Barbie and Emily Blunt was in Oppenheimer (the weirdest double-date of the year) and here they’re...
Nautilus, originally commissioned in the UK by Disney+ for a potential ten-part series looked to be heading to a watery grave when Disney+ reversed its decision as part of cost-cutting and streamlining its content. However AMC has stepped up and thrown the show a lifeboat (seriously, we can do...
It seems that 2023 is the year for timer-travel. Or was. Or will be. As everyone knows it’s the sixtieth anniversary of Doctor Who, complete with three specials starting next month and a Christmas adventure for the incoming Doctor. Quantum Leap got a second season, we’ve also had Netflix‘s...
Over their long lives, Roderick and sister Madeline Usher have had astoundingly successful careers – they have come from nothing to head an empire with wealth, power, influence and a notorious lack of accountability. Roderick’s children – with several different mothers over the years – have also seemed to...
