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Zombieland (released in 2009) was a comedy timed to simultaneously lampoon and celebrate the amount of undead staggering around, but – ten years later – the zombie genre shows no sign of dying off any time soon. The Walking Dead (or the tv version, at least) is still in...
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“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die…” It was announced today that veteran actor Rutger...
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Over the years, Alan Moore has made it clear of the distaste he has for others’ adaptations of his works. His experience with the troubled The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was the last straw (Warner Bros. settled an alleged plagiarism suit aimed at the movie from a third party,...
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As fans of the original genre-twisting film, we’ve been pretty excited about the progress of the tv version of Snowpiercer which is set to debut on TBS next year and has already been renewed for a second run. The original 2013 film, based on French graphic novel Le Transperceneige,...
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The first season of Jonathan Nolan’s Westworld for HBO was as much a masterclass in misdirection as it was an examination of what it is to be human or robot. The second season built on those ideas, but its multiple timelines and skewed chronology were less effective this time...
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Away from Asgard, Marvel had a ton of other news to announce… 6th November 2020 is the date for the much-anticipated Eternals movie from Marvel, based on the galaxy-wide conflicts and cosmic concepts created by Jack Kirby for Marvel‘s publishing empire. The story deals with the powerful Celestials and...
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Spring 2021 will see Loki return to tv screens with the popular anti-hero/villain getting his firstsolo adventure on Disney+. But the set-up could provide you with something of a headache… This will be the version of Loki, once again played by Tom Hiddleston that we saw make an unscheduled...
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There’s been a resurgence in Star Trek over the last year or so and though you can’t please everyone all the time, the line-up of projects (the current Discovery, the upcoming animated Lower Decks and the character-driven Picard) undoubtedly has a diverse enough tone to attract a wide audience....
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The Walking Dead comic may have come to a surprisingly sudden end this past month, but its televisual cousin shows no signs of slowing down. The SDCC panels for The Walking Dead franchise were as popular as ever with a mixture of expected and unexpected news. The expected aspect...
Zombieland (released in 2009) was a comedy timed to simultaneously lampoon and celebrate the amount of undead staggering around, but – ten years later – the zombie genre shows no sign of dying off any time soon. The Walking Dead (or the tv version, at least) is still in...
“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die…” It was announced today that veteran actor Rutger...
Over the years, Alan Moore has made it clear of the distaste he has for others’ adaptations of his works. His experience with the troubled The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was the last straw (Warner Bros. settled an alleged plagiarism suit aimed at the movie from a third party,...
As fans of the original genre-twisting film, we’ve been pretty excited about the progress of the tv version of Snowpiercer which is set to debut on TBS next year and has already been renewed for a second run. The original 2013 film, based on French graphic novel Le Transperceneige,...
The first season of Jonathan Nolan’s Westworld for HBO was as much a masterclass in misdirection as it was an examination of what it is to be human or robot. The second season built on those ideas, but its multiple timelines and skewed chronology were less effective this time...
Away from Asgard, Marvel had a ton of other news to announce… 6th November 2020 is the date for the much-anticipated Eternals movie from Marvel, based on the galaxy-wide conflicts and cosmic concepts created by Jack Kirby for Marvel‘s publishing empire. The story deals with the powerful Celestials and...
Spring 2021 will see Loki return to tv screens with the popular anti-hero/villain getting his firstsolo adventure on Disney+. But the set-up could provide you with something of a headache… This will be the version of Loki, once again played by Tom Hiddleston that we saw make an unscheduled...
There’s been a resurgence in Star Trek over the last year or so and though you can’t please everyone all the time, the line-up of projects (the current Discovery, the upcoming animated Lower Decks and the character-driven Picard) undoubtedly has a diverse enough tone to attract a wide audience....
The Walking Dead comic may have come to a surprisingly sudden end this past month, but its televisual cousin shows no signs of slowing down. The SDCC panels for The Walking Dead franchise were as popular as ever with a mixture of expected and unexpected news. The expected aspect...
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...