John Mosby

  • Eastern promise: Netflix’s new anime and drama slate…

    Netflix is simultaneously consolidating its commitment to international and genre content with the announcement of several anime projects for its platform.  It did so at a special all-star presentation in Singapore attended by the likes of House of Cards‘ Robin Wright, and Narcos actors Diego Luna and Michael Pena. Pacific Rim...
  • Is this ‘Breaking’ movie news good or Bad..?

    It’s not really any kind of news-flash to note that internet can sometimes spread information faster than it can be verified, confirmed or denied. In recent times everything from Star Wars director departures to changes in Doctor Who seasonal scheduling has produced massive interest, huge bandwidths of comments and...
  • Doctor Who and the shape of Ptings to come..?

    While scavenging for parts on a junk asteroid, the Doctor and her team accidentally set off a sonic mine and end up in the Tsungara medical facility, needing time to recover. But time may be a luxury because separated from the Tardis means that there’s no way off the...
  • Queen’s royal ‘Rhapsody’ will rock everything but the boat…

    It’s the 1970s and a million bands are created with their members hoping for stardom, but those dreams are about to come true for Brian May (Gwilym Lee) and Roger Taylor (Ben Hardy) when their band ‘Smile’ loses its lead singer and a fan named Freddie Mercury introduces himself...
  • ‘Witches’ discovers renewal for two more spells…

    Adapted from Deborah Harkness’s bestselling All Souls trilogy of books, the Sky original production, A Discovery of Witches – which launched in September and was produced by Bad Wolf – proved to be one of the biggest successes for  Sky One this year. The announcement came today that two...
  • Game on as ‘Thrones’ prequel takes Long Road…

    While production on the final six episodes of Game of Thrones is still underway for broadcast sometime in the first half of 2019, there are already plans for a prequel series which would likely debut around a year later. It was announced as far back as May 2017 that...
  • News-Flash! Will new reboot save every one of us?

    While it was previously thought that Matthew Vaughn (of X-Men: First Class and Kingsman fame) was in line to direct a revamping of the classic Flash Gordon concept, it now looks as if  Fox have asked Julius Avery to helm the project with Vaughn settling in to the role...
  • Winter (& Falcon) is coming… to Disney platform..?

    It was announced a few weeks ago that Disney was actively working on two superhero spin-offs for the subscription-platform part of its empire, due to launch towards the end of 2019. Impressively, both Tom Hiddleston and Elizabeth Olsen were being penciled in to reprise their respective cinematic roles as...
  • Dark (Sacred) Night Returns: Bosch & Ballard cross paths…

    A year ago, Harry Bosch made a promise to himself and a forlorn mother that he would solve the cold-case murder of her daughter, Daisy. The mother, Elizabeth Clayton, attempting to resist the pain-numbing lure of the streets on which Harry had found her and which claimed Daisy, is...
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