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Marvel had a major presence at this year’s SDCC – at least in the television department. One of the projects that the studio (and FOX) are eager to promote is The Gifted. It’s the story of the government hunting down potential mutants. There’s something of a conflict of interest...
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Guillermo Del Toro has a reputation of visually-rich flights of fantasy – for films that range from Hellboy, through Pan’s Labyrinth and Pacific Rim. His next movie looks set to follow that visual style. The Shape of Water tells a love story between a mute woman (Sally Hawkins) and the...
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Caesar (Andy Serkis) wants nothing more than to live in peace, away from the humans that seem determined to make he and his fellow apes their enemy. But Caesar is more than willing to answer any attack with brute and savage force. He’s not without mercy but his patience...
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“Nevertheless, she regenerated…” Jodie Whittaker has formally been announced as the next Doctor Who. The decision – bound to be seen as controversial by some because it’s the first female incarnation of the Time Lord – was seen for the first time in a specially-shot teaser which debuted after...
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There’s been decidedly mixed reactions to the latest entry in Michael Bay’s chrome-plated Transformers pantheon, The Last Knight. Most mainstream critics have slammed the story as more of the same in what is arguably becoming a wash-rinse-repeat franchise… but it’s also undeniably a franchise that goes after a very...
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Three girls, Claire (Hayley Lu Richardson), Marcia (Jessica Sula) and loner Casey are abducted from a mall, kidnapped by a figure (James McAvoy) who slides into the car and chloroforms them without speaking. They awake in an underground cell, scared by the psychotic man holding them. But their anger and...
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Every breath you take, every move you make Every bond you break, every step you take I’ll be watching you Oh, can’t you see? You belong to me My poor heart(s) ache with every step you take… The Doctor, though fully aware of his Earthly duties concerning the Vault...
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David Haller (Dan Stevens) is completely aware he’s not like most other people. Unable to function well in society, he’s grown up accustomed to the voices in his head and not always being able to control his impulses. But the medications he receives in the lockdown facility that is...
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Before a second of its first episode had been broadcast, 24 arrived on television schedules in the Fall of 2001 with the kind of zeitgiest-grabbing topicality that can’t be programmed, engineered or bought. Mere weeks earlier viewers had watched helplessly as the all-too-real world came powering through their television screens...
Marvel had a major presence at this year’s SDCC – at least in the television department. One of the projects that the studio (and FOX) are eager to promote is The Gifted. It’s the story of the government hunting down potential mutants. There’s something of a conflict of interest...
Guillermo Del Toro has a reputation of visually-rich flights of fantasy – for films that range from Hellboy, through Pan’s Labyrinth and Pacific Rim. His next movie looks set to follow that visual style. The Shape of Water tells a love story between a mute woman (Sally Hawkins) and the...
Caesar (Andy Serkis) wants nothing more than to live in peace, away from the humans that seem determined to make he and his fellow apes their enemy. But Caesar is more than willing to answer any attack with brute and savage force. He’s not without mercy but his patience...
“Nevertheless, she regenerated…” Jodie Whittaker has formally been announced as the next Doctor Who. The decision – bound to be seen as controversial by some because it’s the first female incarnation of the Time Lord – was seen for the first time in a specially-shot teaser which debuted after...
There’s been decidedly mixed reactions to the latest entry in Michael Bay’s chrome-plated Transformers pantheon, The Last Knight. Most mainstream critics have slammed the story as more of the same in what is arguably becoming a wash-rinse-repeat franchise… but it’s also undeniably a franchise that goes after a very...
Three girls, Claire (Hayley Lu Richardson), Marcia (Jessica Sula) and loner Casey are abducted from a mall, kidnapped by a figure (James McAvoy) who slides into the car and chloroforms them without speaking. They awake in an underground cell, scared by the psychotic man holding them. But their anger and...
Every breath you take, every move you make Every bond you break, every step you take I’ll be watching you Oh, can’t you see? You belong to me My poor heart(s) ache with every step you take… The Doctor, though fully aware of his Earthly duties concerning the Vault...
David Haller (Dan Stevens) is completely aware he’s not like most other people. Unable to function well in society, he’s grown up accustomed to the voices in his head and not always being able to control his impulses. But the medications he receives in the lockdown facility that is...
Before a second of its first episode had been broadcast, 24 arrived on television schedules in the Fall of 2001 with the kind of zeitgiest-grabbing topicality that can’t be programmed, engineered or bought. Mere weeks earlier viewers had watched helplessly as the all-too-real world came powering through their television screens...
