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Last week’s Doctor Who episode ‘Kerblam!‘ was a dark satire on a certain massive delivery corporation and though – in the end – the real cosmic threat didn’t come directly from the business model, there were those who wondered if Amazon was even slightly perturbed by the comparisons. On...
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Outgoing President of ABC Entertainment Channing Dungey confirmed today that Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD has now been confirmed for both a sixth AND seventh season, with both outings believed to be thirteen episode orders. It was revealed earlier in the year that the television show was getting a reduced...
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In a city and industry built on a foundation of a million maxims and intangible trends, there’s perhaps only absolutely one piece of definitive truth to offer. “Nobody knows anything..” said William Goldman, proving perhaps that one person, ironically, did. Ask many veterans of the film-making world and almost...
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It seems an age ago that Avatar made such a big splash at the box-office with James Cameron once again pushing the boundaries of technology to achieve his visions. It was actually 2009, so technically the industry probably has entered a new era since. The story of humanity’s impact...
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Michael Connelly’s most recent ‘Harry Bosch‘ novel Dark Sacred Night, published by Orion, just hit the UK and international shelves (and we reviewed it here) and there’s more good news for the veteran cop and his creator with the confirmation coming today that the Amazon Prime series based on...
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While Tom Cruise is an A-List actor with a strong reputation for a great work ethic and a list of memorable performances, there have been several occasions in his long career where his participation has flown in the face of the source material. Author Anne Rice famously decried –...
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It seemed we had to wait an age for the return of Doctor Who and even since Jodie Whittaker plummeted into a Sheffield train carriage there’s been far less information about upcoming episodes than there has been in recent years. But we’re now in the latter half of the...
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News is beginning to circulate that comics-industry legend Stan Lee has died at the age of 95. Lee was born Stanley Martin Lieber in New York in 1922, the son of Jewish immigrants from Romania. As a young man he became a proofreader and text-filler at Timely Comics, the...
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Michelle Yeoh was one of the big names attached to Star Trek: Discovery when it launched a year ago and though her initial character Captain Georgiou was (spoiler…) killed off almost immediately, an alternative ‘Mirror Universe’ version – one who had risen through the ranks to become a despotic...
Last week’s Doctor Who episode ‘Kerblam!‘ was a dark satire on a certain massive delivery corporation and though – in the end – the real cosmic threat didn’t come directly from the business model, there were those who wondered if Amazon was even slightly perturbed by the comparisons. On...
Outgoing President of ABC Entertainment Channing Dungey confirmed today that Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD has now been confirmed for both a sixth AND seventh season, with both outings believed to be thirteen episode orders. It was revealed earlier in the year that the television show was getting a reduced...
In a city and industry built on a foundation of a million maxims and intangible trends, there’s perhaps only absolutely one piece of definitive truth to offer. “Nobody knows anything..” said William Goldman, proving perhaps that one person, ironically, did. Ask many veterans of the film-making world and almost...
It seems an age ago that Avatar made such a big splash at the box-office with James Cameron once again pushing the boundaries of technology to achieve his visions. It was actually 2009, so technically the industry probably has entered a new era since. The story of humanity’s impact...
Michael Connelly’s most recent ‘Harry Bosch‘ novel Dark Sacred Night, published by Orion, just hit the UK and international shelves (and we reviewed it here) and there’s more good news for the veteran cop and his creator with the confirmation coming today that the Amazon Prime series based on...
While Tom Cruise is an A-List actor with a strong reputation for a great work ethic and a list of memorable performances, there have been several occasions in his long career where his participation has flown in the face of the source material. Author Anne Rice famously decried –...
It seemed we had to wait an age for the return of Doctor Who and even since Jodie Whittaker plummeted into a Sheffield train carriage there’s been far less information about upcoming episodes than there has been in recent years. But we’re now in the latter half of the...
News is beginning to circulate that comics-industry legend Stan Lee has died at the age of 95. Lee was born Stanley Martin Lieber in New York in 1922, the son of Jewish immigrants from Romania. As a young man he became a proofreader and text-filler at Timely Comics, the...
Michelle Yeoh was one of the big names attached to Star Trek: Discovery when it launched a year ago and though her initial character Captain Georgiou was (spoiler…) killed off almost immediately, an alternative ‘Mirror Universe’ version – one who had risen through the ranks to become a despotic...
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...