• Read it and weep. The Walking Dead #193 rests in peace…

    Robert Kirkman is the man who has penned every single issue of The Walking Dead since it began in 2003 (first with artist Tony Moore and then, for most of the run with Charlie Adlard). In an industry of reboots, stunt variant covers, fake ‘deaths’ and ever-changing creative teams,...
  • Development Hell? The Shape of Pin(head) series to come…

    It looks as if yet another film franchise may be heading to television. After ten Hell-raising widescreen chapters, Pinhead and his horror cohorts will likely make it to the smaller screen in a version of the Hellraiser mythology. Ready Player One producer Dan Farah and It producer Roy Lee...
  • Good Heavens? ‘Charlie’s Angels’ Banks on new reboot…

    You might have been forgiven for not knowing that there was yet another Charlie’s Angels reboot on the horizon. The marketing surrounding the upcoming film hasn’t exactly been kicking into gear until now and other attempts to reinvent the classic 70s show have had decidedly mixed fortunes.  the original...
  • RIP: Billy Drago (veteran screen ‘bad guy’)…

    Veteran screen bad-guy Billy Drago passed away on Monday at the age of 73, with early word that it was from complications from a recent stroke. The chances are, if you’re a die-hard action star, or even if you just watched any television show from the 1980s forward, you’ll...
  • All Linc’d Up: Connelly’s Lawyer heads for series adaptation…

    Michael Connelly has consistently produced best-selling procedural thrillers, featuring the likes of characters such as Mickey Haller, retired detective Harry Bosch and new character, detective Rachel Ballard, all of whom circle each other and occasionally interconnect in the same literary ‘Connellyverse’. Haller was portrayed by Matthew McConaughey in the...
  • Ray Winstone is one of Black Widow’s merry men…

    There’s a deal of irony in the fact that it’s taken over a decade of MCU movies before fan-favourite Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) gets her own solo outing and that it didn’t happen until after ***spoilers*** the character’s demise in the recent blockbusting Avengers: Endgame. Given the Endgame events,...
  • Iraq War’s ‘Official Secrets’ exposed in new trailer…

    Over the years there have been a lot of films made that looked at key events and potential cover-ups involving world-altering events. Some are in the realms of hard-to-prove conspiracy theories and others meticulously trace out the way that evidence was eventually uncovered of high crimes and misdemeanours.  It’s...
  • Oh, the horror! Bloody Bananas split the difference?

    For those of a certain age, there are likely fond but likely incredibly surreal memories of an American television show called The Banana Splits (technically, ‘The Banana Splits Adventure Hour‘) which was originally broadcast between 1968 and 1971. Though hard to explain, it was essentially a mixture of live-action...
  • Netflix pleads the infernal Fifth for final ‘Lucifer’ run…

    When Lucifer was cancelled by FOX after three seasons, its fanbase got pro-active and made it known they’d follow the show and support it if someone else was to pick it up. At almost literally the eleventh hour, Netflix stepped up and did just that, bringing the show back...
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