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We now have a firm date and some of the first footage for what will be the last series of Bosch on its current Amazon Prime Video platform. The series, based on the character created by Michael Connelly and featuring in over two decades worth of novels, is/was the first...
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Despite being a popular show, though never a huge ratings success, FOX‘s Prodigal Son won fans for its mix of procedural cases, dark humour and serial-killer vibe. However, as the networks start to plan their 2021-2022 schedules for later in the year, it has just been announced that the...
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In recent weeks and months the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, whose members vote for the nominees and recipients of the Golden Globes each year, has come under scrutiny and fire for charges ranging from bias and lack of relevance, to racism. A string of controversial remarks by former HFPA...
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In an age of rather cynical and dark television, one of the successes of the last decade was the far-more-positive vibes from Leverage. Created by Chris Downey and John Rogers, it told the tale of a group of grifters and con-artists brought together to act like a Robin Hood...
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The original Venom film, released in 2018, was something of a mixed bag. Part of SONY‘s Marvel Studios-Adjacent titles it occupied the space that couldn’t quite compare to its MCU cousins on character-development and CGI-budget, but despite withering reviews worked fairly well as a guilty-pleasure. Based on the famous...
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Late Thursday the UK’s Guardian newspaper ran a lengthy piece detailing numerous and serious allegations made against British actor/director/producer Noel Clarke – including that he allegedly used intimidation in projects he controlled, had threatened careers, inappropriately touched women he worked with and that he had shared explicit, inappropriate imagery without...
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For the best part of a decade Emilia Clarke played Daenerys Targaryenin, the ‘Mother of Dragons’ in HBO‘s Game of Thrones (only her third professional acting job), but it was the role that launched her career to a whole new level. After the show’s controversial ending, she went on to other genre...
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Marvel Studios‘ Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings began filming early in 2020 was originally due for release in May, then moved to July and now September 2021, just one of the many, many scheduling casualties of the covid pandemic. It’s an interesting choice for Marvel,...
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If reports on industry site The Hollywood Reporter are true then Marvel may be looking to cast a right royal actor for a key role in their upcoming Disney+ series Secret Invasion. Olivia Colman, who most recently played Queen Elisabeth II in The Crown (but whose other work includes...