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Game of Thrones‘ Richard Madden plays David Budd, a war veteran now employed as a top-level officer for the ‘Royalty and Specialist Protection’ part of the Metropolitan Police Service. Essentially that means he is assigned to prominent subjects who may be under genuine threat of harm. His latest assignment...
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Stop me if you hard this one before, but a well-known American known for his larger-than-life and uncompromising persona on the screen… who has recently had accusations made against him about his conduct regarding women… who has been dabbling in politics and has been seen with Russian president Vladimir...
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For a franchise with so many memorable captains – and the actors who portrayed them – it’s probably true to say that James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and Jean-Luc Picard (Sir Patrick Stewart) hold the most venerable positions in fandom and general pop culture. The original Star Trek ran...
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Anyone expecting a no-holds-barred martial arts epic for Gareth Evans’ next project – something akin to his acclaimed, groundbreaking action-fests such as Merantau and The Raid films – may have to get ready for something quite different, but no less compelling as the writer/director stretches his muscles in a...
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Alexander Nevsky, described by some as the Russian equivalent to Arnold Schwarzenegger, leads a cast that also includes Mark Dacascos, Danny Trejo, Kelly Hu, Eric Roberts, Matthias Hues, Tom Arnold and William Baldwin for the mismatched martial-arts action thriller Maximum Impact. The film has just been firmed up for...
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24 was a flagship show for FOX for nearly a decade. It featured the central character of Jack Bauer, an anti-terrorism task-force leader who found himself plunged into a terrorist conspiracy and for which he only had the titular amount of hours to unravel the plot. Each of the...
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Like many a franchise, the Terminator movies have had their ups and downs and it is generally considered that beyond the first two films (both directed by James Cameron) and an ambitious but ratings-challenged FOX tv series, The Sarah Connor Chronicles (featuring Lena Heady and Summer Glau), the subsequent...
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Though the concerted and passionate campaign for a third season of Timeless failed to get the NBC time-travel another run, the show’s fans and its production team were hoping that an alternative could be found that would resolve the dramatic cliffhanger at the end of the recent season, perhaps...
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There was a great disturbance in the Force when Carrie Fisher passed in December 2016. A talented actress and arguably an even more talented screenwriter, she left a unique space in the film-industry and also left the makers of Star Wars with a practical problem. Though the new Star...
Game of Thrones‘ Richard Madden plays David Budd, a war veteran now employed as a top-level officer for the ‘Royalty and Specialist Protection’ part of the Metropolitan Police Service. Essentially that means he is assigned to prominent subjects who may be under genuine threat of harm. His latest assignment...
Stop me if you hard this one before, but a well-known American known for his larger-than-life and uncompromising persona on the screen… who has recently had accusations made against him about his conduct regarding women… who has been dabbling in politics and has been seen with Russian president Vladimir...
For a franchise with so many memorable captains – and the actors who portrayed them – it’s probably true to say that James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and Jean-Luc Picard (Sir Patrick Stewart) hold the most venerable positions in fandom and general pop culture. The original Star Trek ran...
Anyone expecting a no-holds-barred martial arts epic for Gareth Evans’ next project – something akin to his acclaimed, groundbreaking action-fests such as Merantau and The Raid films – may have to get ready for something quite different, but no less compelling as the writer/director stretches his muscles in a...
Alexander Nevsky, described by some as the Russian equivalent to Arnold Schwarzenegger, leads a cast that also includes Mark Dacascos, Danny Trejo, Kelly Hu, Eric Roberts, Matthias Hues, Tom Arnold and William Baldwin for the mismatched martial-arts action thriller Maximum Impact. The film has just been firmed up for...
24 was a flagship show for FOX for nearly a decade. It featured the central character of Jack Bauer, an anti-terrorism task-force leader who found himself plunged into a terrorist conspiracy and for which he only had the titular amount of hours to unravel the plot. Each of the...
Like many a franchise, the Terminator movies have had their ups and downs and it is generally considered that beyond the first two films (both directed by James Cameron) and an ambitious but ratings-challenged FOX tv series, The Sarah Connor Chronicles (featuring Lena Heady and Summer Glau), the subsequent...
Though the concerted and passionate campaign for a third season of Timeless failed to get the NBC time-travel another run, the show’s fans and its production team were hoping that an alternative could be found that would resolve the dramatic cliffhanger at the end of the recent season, perhaps...
There was a great disturbance in the Force when Carrie Fisher passed in December 2016. A talented actress and arguably an even more talented screenwriter, she left a unique space in the film-industry and also left the makers of Star Wars with a practical problem. Though the new Star...
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...