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Disney+/Marvel recently announced that in one way or another there’d be fresh new collaborative content almost every week for the entirety of 2021 – whether it be tv episodes or films. The delay to Black Widow (from May to July) means that schedule is a little askew now, but...
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Let’s be honest… it was only a matter of time. This morning, Disney confirmed the inevitable and announced that the next Marvel movie Black Widow will not be the cinema-only release that the company had been insisting was their preference, but will instead debut simultaneously on big-screen and Disney+....
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Emerald Fenell has received multiple Oscar-nominated for her direction of Promising Young Woman and it now looks as if one of her forthcoming projects will be a superhero movie. It might have been asking too much of pigment-based irony for Emerald to write a Green Lantern movie, but it...
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For a long time, James Cameron’s Avatar maintained the position of ‘most successful film of all time’, essentially taking that top spot from his own Titanic outing. The film, a ground-breaking mixture of motion-capture, CGI and human characters, was a massive financial success (and a reasonable critical one) that...
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You might have been forgiven for thinking there wouldn’t be an Academy Awards in 2021. For much of 2020, cinemas were closed and film production either slowed down or ground to a halt. Most films couldn’t be made and even the ones that were completed couldn’t be seen easily....
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A couple of years ago we reported that the latest attempt to revive the Kung Fu series was possibly going to move forward at Fox. The original Kung Fu concept was, of course, a hit for the late David Carradine during its run from 1972-1975. The series followed Kwai Chang...
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With pandemic information fluctuating – the rate of infections coming down with the availability of the vaccine but with numbers of infected still scarily high – there continues to be disruption and changes to release patterns for tent-pole movies Univeral‘s F9 (the latest part of the Fast and Furious...
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The seventh and final series of Amazon Prime‘s screen adaptation of Bosch, the best-selling book-series featuring Michael Connelly’s detective Harry Bosch, has just finished filming ahead of a summer launch and for a while now many of the show’s (and books’) fans have been campaigning for another season of...
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After several days of its lead actors posting ‘fake’ titles for the next Spider-man movie, Marvel have come clean and revealed what the real title will be. Following the tradition of putting ‘Home’ in the title (Homecoming, Far from Home), the third Spider-man movie with Tom Holland in the...
Disney+/Marvel recently announced that in one way or another there’d be fresh new collaborative content almost every week for the entirety of 2021 – whether it be tv episodes or films. The delay to Black Widow (from May to July) means that schedule is a little askew now, but...
Let’s be honest… it was only a matter of time. This morning, Disney confirmed the inevitable and announced that the next Marvel movie Black Widow will not be the cinema-only release that the company had been insisting was their preference, but will instead debut simultaneously on big-screen and Disney+....
Emerald Fenell has received multiple Oscar-nominated for her direction of Promising Young Woman and it now looks as if one of her forthcoming projects will be a superhero movie. It might have been asking too much of pigment-based irony for Emerald to write a Green Lantern movie, but it...
For a long time, James Cameron’s Avatar maintained the position of ‘most successful film of all time’, essentially taking that top spot from his own Titanic outing. The film, a ground-breaking mixture of motion-capture, CGI and human characters, was a massive financial success (and a reasonable critical one) that...
You might have been forgiven for thinking there wouldn’t be an Academy Awards in 2021. For much of 2020, cinemas were closed and film production either slowed down or ground to a halt. Most films couldn’t be made and even the ones that were completed couldn’t be seen easily....
A couple of years ago we reported that the latest attempt to revive the Kung Fu series was possibly going to move forward at Fox. The original Kung Fu concept was, of course, a hit for the late David Carradine during its run from 1972-1975. The series followed Kwai Chang...
With pandemic information fluctuating – the rate of infections coming down with the availability of the vaccine but with numbers of infected still scarily high – there continues to be disruption and changes to release patterns for tent-pole movies Univeral‘s F9 (the latest part of the Fast and Furious...
The seventh and final series of Amazon Prime‘s screen adaptation of Bosch, the best-selling book-series featuring Michael Connelly’s detective Harry Bosch, has just finished filming ahead of a summer launch and for a while now many of the show’s (and books’) fans have been campaigning for another season of...
After several days of its lead actors posting ‘fake’ titles for the next Spider-man movie, Marvel have come clean and revealed what the real title will be. Following the tradition of putting ‘Home’ in the title (Homecoming, Far from Home), the third Spider-man movie with Tom Holland in the...
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...