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Back in 1994 America’s ABC network ran a four-episode limited series, on consecutive nights, based on the acclaimed Stephen King story, The Stand featuring the likes of Gary Sinise, Molly Ringwald and and Rob Lowe in key roles. King’s story deals with an post-apocalyptic take between the possible personfications of good...
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In recent months it appears that several significant British authors are finding their tomes acquired for the screen. EchoChamber noted that Alex North’s debut novel The Whisper Man has already had the rights snapped up by AGBO, founded by Emmy award-winning directors Anthony and Joe Russo, the team behind...
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It would appear that the long-standing rumours that Ben Affleck is hanging up the bat-cowl have now been confirmed. Industry site Deadline reported that Warner Bros. have pencilled in the next solo Batman film – which is to be entitled ‘The Batman‘ – for the summer of 2021 with...
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Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD received a late renewal from ABC and won’t actually be back on screens until the summer (probably July). But, on the positive side, that will allow it to side-step some of the issues raised by (and events between) the two cosmic Avengers movies and the infamous...
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When another anomalous reading is detected – similar to the mysterious pulses recently detected elsewhere in the galaxy – the only ship able to travel such distances in the needed speed is the Discovery. As Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and Pike (Anson Mount) compare notes – and Spock’s current whereabouts...
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Notorious hacker and punisher of evil men Lisbeth Salander (Claire Foy) returns to her base of operations and receives an offer that intrigues. A man named Frans Balder (Stephen Merchant) is horrified that the computer program he created is going to be used less scrupulously by the American paymasters....
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First Mark Millar conquered printed comics and then saw many of his ideas and creations find their way to the big screen. The Ultimates, his reinvention of The Avengers has informed much of the cinematic version of the super-team and there’s been more independent successes with the likes of...
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M. Night Shyamalan’s 1999 film The Sixth Sense was The Usual Suspects of the supernatural genre – rightly considered one of the most twisty, spooky, moody and ultimately satisfying thrillers of modern cinema and one that, two decades later, stands up to repeat viewing and ever-deeper scrutiny. It’s a big-screen...
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Fresh from circumventing the Klingon/Federation War and surviving the machinations of their Mirror Universe counterparts, the crew of the Discovery find there will be no shore leave as they are visited by Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) who says he is there to assume command of the vessel. Strange...
Back in 1994 America’s ABC network ran a four-episode limited series, on consecutive nights, based on the acclaimed Stephen King story, The Stand featuring the likes of Gary Sinise, Molly Ringwald and and Rob Lowe in key roles. King’s story deals with an post-apocalyptic take between the possible personfications of good...
In recent months it appears that several significant British authors are finding their tomes acquired for the screen. EchoChamber noted that Alex North’s debut novel The Whisper Man has already had the rights snapped up by AGBO, founded by Emmy award-winning directors Anthony and Joe Russo, the team behind...
It would appear that the long-standing rumours that Ben Affleck is hanging up the bat-cowl have now been confirmed. Industry site Deadline reported that Warner Bros. have pencilled in the next solo Batman film – which is to be entitled ‘The Batman‘ – for the summer of 2021 with...
Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD received a late renewal from ABC and won’t actually be back on screens until the summer (probably July). But, on the positive side, that will allow it to side-step some of the issues raised by (and events between) the two cosmic Avengers movies and the infamous...
When another anomalous reading is detected – similar to the mysterious pulses recently detected elsewhere in the galaxy – the only ship able to travel such distances in the needed speed is the Discovery. As Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and Pike (Anson Mount) compare notes – and Spock’s current whereabouts...
Notorious hacker and punisher of evil men Lisbeth Salander (Claire Foy) returns to her base of operations and receives an offer that intrigues. A man named Frans Balder (Stephen Merchant) is horrified that the computer program he created is going to be used less scrupulously by the American paymasters....
First Mark Millar conquered printed comics and then saw many of his ideas and creations find their way to the big screen. The Ultimates, his reinvention of The Avengers has informed much of the cinematic version of the super-team and there’s been more independent successes with the likes of...
M. Night Shyamalan’s 1999 film The Sixth Sense was The Usual Suspects of the supernatural genre – rightly considered one of the most twisty, spooky, moody and ultimately satisfying thrillers of modern cinema and one that, two decades later, stands up to repeat viewing and ever-deeper scrutiny. It’s a big-screen...
Fresh from circumventing the Klingon/Federation War and surviving the machinations of their Mirror Universe counterparts, the crew of the Discovery find there will be no shore leave as they are visited by Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) who says he is there to assume command of the vessel. Strange...
