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Bobba Fett remains something of a divisive character in the Star Wars saga. Largely a throwaway character in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, he seemed little more than a henchman-level bounty-hunter who ended up falling into a Sarlacc Pit and presumably dying. However he was...
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For more than one generation Toy Story holds a special place in the collective heart. The Pixar movie about the quest of two ‘rival’ toys – astronaut Buzz Lightyear (voiced by Tim Allen) and Woody (voiced by Tom Hanks) (and their friends) to escape larger-than-life perils in suburbia was...
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In the wake of all the Bat-news coming out of the Fandome event, it’s also been a strange week in the television corner of the Batverse, but not in a good way. Just over two years ago, The CW launched Batwoman, the first primetime superhero show with a LGBTQ...
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Red Notice is one of those films that is purpose-built with a very specific template – combining top self-deprecating actors at the height of their fame and a fun, caper plot and scene-filled banter designed to keep the action moving. It’s the sort of film that would have to...
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UPDATE: The situation and circumstances surrounding the fatal shooting on the set of western-thriller Rust seem to be getting more complex by the hour. It was revealed on Friday, the day after Alec Baldwin discharged a prop gun which subsequently killed the film’s DOP Halyna Hutchins and injured the...
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Back in 2018, Nathan Fillion created a unofficial passion-project short, his take on the SONY PS4 / Naughty Dog game Uncharted in which he recreated the central role of Nathan Drake (with screen veteran Stephen Lang cast as his mentor Victor ‘Sully’ Sullivan). The ‘film’ ran to less than...
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The online DC Fandome event (which took place on the 15th October) is an annual way for DC and Warner related-companies to unleash a barrage of promotional trailers and information about forthcoming projects. This year’s line-up of news items was pretty impressive giving audiences a glimpse of various features...
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Adding some fuel to the fire that suggests this could be the last year for record-breaking, top-rated US drama NCIS, its most enduring star, Mark Harmon, aka Leroy Jethro Gibbs, bowed out of the show in this week’s episode ‘Great Wide Open‘ after solving a final, personal case and...
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For the last week UK audiences have seen a very brief ‘interruption’ to their between-show BBC broadcasts as an image of Jodie Whittaker’s Doctor made a brief appearance, looking very worried indeed. Then, in the last few days all of the official Doctor Who social media accounts went dark,...
Bobba Fett remains something of a divisive character in the Star Wars saga. Largely a throwaway character in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, he seemed little more than a henchman-level bounty-hunter who ended up falling into a Sarlacc Pit and presumably dying. However he was...
For more than one generation Toy Story holds a special place in the collective heart. The Pixar movie about the quest of two ‘rival’ toys – astronaut Buzz Lightyear (voiced by Tim Allen) and Woody (voiced by Tom Hanks) (and their friends) to escape larger-than-life perils in suburbia was...
In the wake of all the Bat-news coming out of the Fandome event, it’s also been a strange week in the television corner of the Batverse, but not in a good way. Just over two years ago, The CW launched Batwoman, the first primetime superhero show with a LGBTQ...
Red Notice is one of those films that is purpose-built with a very specific template – combining top self-deprecating actors at the height of their fame and a fun, caper plot and scene-filled banter designed to keep the action moving. It’s the sort of film that would have to...
UPDATE: The situation and circumstances surrounding the fatal shooting on the set of western-thriller Rust seem to be getting more complex by the hour. It was revealed on Friday, the day after Alec Baldwin discharged a prop gun which subsequently killed the film’s DOP Halyna Hutchins and injured the...
Back in 2018, Nathan Fillion created a unofficial passion-project short, his take on the SONY PS4 / Naughty Dog game Uncharted in which he recreated the central role of Nathan Drake (with screen veteran Stephen Lang cast as his mentor Victor ‘Sully’ Sullivan). The ‘film’ ran to less than...
The online DC Fandome event (which took place on the 15th October) is an annual way for DC and Warner related-companies to unleash a barrage of promotional trailers and information about forthcoming projects. This year’s line-up of news items was pretty impressive giving audiences a glimpse of various features...
Adding some fuel to the fire that suggests this could be the last year for record-breaking, top-rated US drama NCIS, its most enduring star, Mark Harmon, aka Leroy Jethro Gibbs, bowed out of the show in this week’s episode ‘Great Wide Open‘ after solving a final, personal case and...
For the last week UK audiences have seen a very brief ‘interruption’ to their between-show BBC broadcasts as an image of Jodie Whittaker’s Doctor made a brief appearance, looking very worried indeed. Then, in the last few days all of the official Doctor Who social media accounts went dark,...
Surprising almost no-one, the BBC confirmed today that their collaboration with Disney+ on Doctor Who is formally coming to an end. It had long been speculated that the lack...
It’s said that the Doomsday Clock has stood at just a few minutes to midnight’ for a long time, philosophers and pundits alike noting that, if anything, the midnight...
Michael Connelly often has his finger on the pulse of interesting issues, but reading a preview copy of The Proving Ground in a week where the dangers of AI,...
I’ll be honest: I’m a sucker for a good cat-and-mouse story and in this era of fast-evolving tech and surveillance, characters staying one step ahead of their pursuers can...