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  • SDCC: ‘Snowpiercer’ trailer looks set to track well…

    As fans of the original genre-twisting film, we’ve been pretty excited about the progress of the tv version of Snowpiercer which is set to debut on TBS next year and has already been renewed for a second run. The original 2013 film, based on French graphic novel Le Transperceneige,...
  • SDCC: Shang-Chi! Blade? FF? Mutants? Marvel Phase 4 plans…

    Away from Asgard, Marvel had a ton of other news to announce… 6th November 2020 is the date for the much-anticipated Eternals movie from Marvel, based on the galaxy-wide conflicts and cosmic concepts created by Jack Kirby for Marvel‘s publishing empire. The story deals with the powerful Celestials and...
  • SDCC: Marvel’s Asgardian plans – alt-Loki, female Thor…

    Spring 2021 will see Loki return to tv  screens with the popular anti-hero/villain getting his firstsolo adventure on Disney+.  But the set-up could provide you with something of a headache… This will be the version of Loki, once again played by Tom Hiddleston that we saw make an unscheduled...
  • SDCC: Rick goes to movies, third ‘TWD’ series starts shooting…

    The Walking Dead comic may have come to a surprisingly sudden end this past month, but its televisual cousin shows no signs of slowing down. The SDCC panels for The Walking Dead franchise were as popular as ever with a mixture of expected and unexpected news.  The expected aspect...
  • SDCC: Top Gun and Tom Cruise finally go ‘Maverick’…

    “I feel the need – the need for speed…” is probably one of cinema’s best-known movie taglines and 1986’s Top Gun has, in many ways, remained a benchmark for a certain type of cinema. The Tom Cruise vehicle was the kind of testosterone, high-risks story that combines the bonafide...
  • Thor 4, Akira 0?: Taika Waititi to return to MCU…

    For some time, New Zealand-born director Taika Waititi’s name has been associated with the much-discussed live-action version of cult eastern sci-fi epic Akira – originally the manga story and then as an ambitious animated film released in 1988.  Though no names had been announced, it was known Waititi was...
  • For Her Eyes Only? Bond 25’s 007 to be black and female… but…

    007 to be black and female??? Yes it’s the kind of click-bait news designed to cause much gnashing of teeth and angst among the die-hard party-faithful who haven’t actually read the important specific detail beyond that headline… For several years there’s been talk about the next Bond being black...
  • Black Mirror: ‘Ashley’ is a tale of Algorithm and Blues…

    Rachel is at that awkward age where she’s deciding whether fitting in to school-life and having friends is the most or least important to her. She tries not to care what others think but is still tempted to take paper in the talent show to prove something to herself....
  • Hard Wayne: Warners’ approves Pattinson for Batman trilogy…

    Last week, the internet scuttlebutt was that Robert Pattinson had been cast as Bruce Wayne for director Matt Reeves’ latest reboot of DC/Warners‘ key superhero. Then there was some backtracking as it appeared he was, more accurately, high on a shortlist which also included the likes of X-Men/Tolkien‘s Nicholas...
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