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  • FOX: Damned Shame as network kills cult shows…

    This time of year is always a controversial one for the US television networks. Plans are being made on which shows to greenlight for the next year – usually beginning broadcast between September and December. But to make way for those, other series are cancelled and there are usually...
  • Black to basics: ‘The Predator’ snares a revamp…

    Way back in 1987 Predator was a notable action film on a variety of levels, telling the story of a small elite military unit that were tracking an unknown assailant through the jungle – only to realise that they’d become the quarry . It was a major early success for...
  • No Kidding: YouTube’s “Cobra Kai’ waxes lyrical…

    Over thirty years ago, Johnny Lawrence (William Zarba) was a up-and-coming martial-artist, learning his technique from Kreese (Martin Kove), the sensei of the local Cobra Kai judo. But Kreese was ruthless and in the end both Johnny and Kreese found themselves on the wrong end of a more responsible,...
  • Feel the buzz: Ant-man & The Wasp trailer…

    There’s been quite a lot of publicity around Marvel‘s compact and bijou independent featurette known as ‘Infinity War‘, but it’s not the only film from the studio that will be in multiplexes this year – the next one stars at least one tiny hero conspicuously missing from the larger...
  • Winchester: Old school horror gets a realty check…

    Compromised and soon-to-be-impoverished psychiatrist Eric Price (Jason Clarke) is beginning to wonder whether his own addictions may have been the downfall of an otherwise respected career but he is approached to evaluate the mental state of Sarah Winchester (Helen Mirren), the widow of the man who created the famous...
  • Flying Solo: Star Wars spin-off gets final trailer…

    After all the directorial comings-and-goings that were widely reported during production, it’s just over a month until the next standalone Star Wars outing (Solo: A Star Wars Story to give it its full title) hits cinemas… and we’ve now got the final trailer flying on to screens.  There’s a...
  • Sorkin’s ‘Molly’ hedges its bets… (DVD)

    In the middle of the night Molly Bloom (Jessica Chastain) gets a phone-call that will change her life. It’s the FBI, they are outside her door, armed and they have a warrant for her arrest. Molly, once a ski-champion with realistic Olympic dreams, found her life going off on...
  • Logo/police? BBC Doctors the Who font…

    Over the years there’s been many titles and certainly a fair degree of different fonts for the iconic titles featuring Doctor Who. Every new showrunner and actor has made their mark, often with a wash-and-brush-up to the show’s font. Given the world’s longest running science-fiction show now has quite...
  • Flying ‘Solo’: Star Wars prequel gets SB push…

    There’s been much gnashing of teeth about the Star Wars prequel featuring the younger days of ne’er-do-well Han Solo. Behind the scenes, the film controversially lost its directors after many months of shooting (Ron Howard stepped in) and the lack of publicity ahead of its upcoming May release made...
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