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The term ‘gentle giant’ is used a lot, but it must certainly apply to actor Peter Mayhew, who passed away this week at the age of 74 from a heart attack. Mayhew was, of course, the man behind Chewbacca, the hairy, reliable co-pilot of the Millennium Falcon in the...
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“When your best friend is murdered before your 17th birthday, you don’t develop a keen sense of mercy…” So muses Kristen Bell’s Veronica Mars as she heads back to tv. The original critically-acclaimed ‘teen-noir’ television series depicted Bell as Veronica, a young girl who was just about to finish...
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With Marvel reigning supreme at the international box-office, it seems that the company and its characters are in no mood to take a rest. hulu , the platform that’s 60% owned by Disney is the current home of another Marvel tie-in, Runaways and has announced two more live-action series that will...
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There’s been as much gnashing of teeth as cocking of glocks where the next James Bond movie is concerned. For a long time it wasn’t even clear if Daniel Craig would be sticking around in the role for another outing – he famously noted he’d rather ‘slash his wrists’...
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Just as FOX finishes their run of Gotham, detailing the early days of James Gordon and the metropolis that will one day be home to the Batman, another American platform is gearing up a pre-Dark Knight series that will focus on the younger years of another of the caped...
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Imagine if the ensemble of George R. R. Martin’s bloody, murderous, raping, pillaging, drinking, killing, incest-ing, dragon-riding characters had actually managed some therapy ahead of their evil-doings? In a new collaborative clip, the Children’s Television Workshop and HBO have combined to suggest there are better ways to settle one’s...
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It’s been unusually quiet on the Star Wars battlefront recently, but now we have a trailer and a name for the chapter previousy entitled Episode IX. Though several possibilities had been thrown around by fans (the most popular being the evergreen ‘Balance of the Force‘), the massive Star Wars...
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Lucifer, the darkly-humoured FOX show, in which British actor Tom Ellis plays Lucifer Morningstar, the egotistical fallen angel spending time in Los Angeles – and dividing his time between solving crimes with Police Detective Chloe Decker (Lauren German) and trying to redeem his credibility and find his place in...
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Those who are watching the trailers for the almost-upon-us Avengers: Endgame will know that though he didn’t feature in Avengers: Infinity War, Clint Barton (alias Hawkeye) did indeed survive the fateful Thanos finger-snap -though early indications from his less-than-sunny demeanour suggest some of those close to him may not...
The term ‘gentle giant’ is used a lot, but it must certainly apply to actor Peter Mayhew, who passed away this week at the age of 74 from a heart attack. Mayhew was, of course, the man behind Chewbacca, the hairy, reliable co-pilot of the Millennium Falcon in the...
“When your best friend is murdered before your 17th birthday, you don’t develop a keen sense of mercy…” So muses Kristen Bell’s Veronica Mars as she heads back to tv. The original critically-acclaimed ‘teen-noir’ television series depicted Bell as Veronica, a young girl who was just about to finish...
With Marvel reigning supreme at the international box-office, it seems that the company and its characters are in no mood to take a rest. hulu , the platform that’s 60% owned by Disney is the current home of another Marvel tie-in, Runaways and has announced two more live-action series that will...
There’s been as much gnashing of teeth as cocking of glocks where the next James Bond movie is concerned. For a long time it wasn’t even clear if Daniel Craig would be sticking around in the role for another outing – he famously noted he’d rather ‘slash his wrists’...
Just as FOX finishes their run of Gotham, detailing the early days of James Gordon and the metropolis that will one day be home to the Batman, another American platform is gearing up a pre-Dark Knight series that will focus on the younger years of another of the caped...
Imagine if the ensemble of George R. R. Martin’s bloody, murderous, raping, pillaging, drinking, killing, incest-ing, dragon-riding characters had actually managed some therapy ahead of their evil-doings? In a new collaborative clip, the Children’s Television Workshop and HBO have combined to suggest there are better ways to settle one’s...
It’s been unusually quiet on the Star Wars battlefront recently, but now we have a trailer and a name for the chapter previousy entitled Episode IX. Though several possibilities had been thrown around by fans (the most popular being the evergreen ‘Balance of the Force‘), the massive Star Wars...
Lucifer, the darkly-humoured FOX show, in which British actor Tom Ellis plays Lucifer Morningstar, the egotistical fallen angel spending time in Los Angeles – and dividing his time between solving crimes with Police Detective Chloe Decker (Lauren German) and trying to redeem his credibility and find his place in...
Those who are watching the trailers for the almost-upon-us Avengers: Endgame will know that though he didn’t feature in Avengers: Infinity War, Clint Barton (alias Hawkeye) did indeed survive the fateful Thanos finger-snap -though early indications from his less-than-sunny demeanour suggest some of those close to him may not...
In 1955… Lee Shaw has to make some hard decisions about protecting Keiko and keeping the future of Monarch assured, wondering how long it may be between doing what...
The end is nigh… but don’t worry too much: HBO‘s critically-acclaimed The Last of Us adaptation is safe and well (or as safe and well as apocalypses get) and ...
It’s been speculated for a long time, but Marvel has been keeping a close eye on the court case involving actor Jonthan Majors (Creed III). The actor, who had...
The very name of Dungeons and Dragons is forged in fire, the stuff of legends and perhaps a few stereotypes. But in the modern era, it’s fast becoming a...