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Mark Millar has long been the wunderkind of the comics community. His work might not be to everyone’s tastes and he’s proven a deft hand at deliberately courting controversy and infamy with well-managed stunts and Olympic-level self-promotion, but his comics have, without question, taken tried-and-tested comic-book formulas and given...
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There’s a solid history of fan-made projects that emulate professional properties. The likes of Star Wars, Star Trek, Harry Potter, Predator and countless other franchises have generated fan-made productions that can range in quality from deliberately fun but improvised and bootleg to full-on projects that look every bit as...
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There’s still a few months to go before the new season of Doctor Who begins across the UK (with simulcast across various other territories), but that doesn’t mean there isn’t time for a teaser. Last year, the BBC chose the Wimbledon final to showcase Jodie Whittaker’s first real appearance...
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There was once a time when Joss Whedon could do no wrong. Projects such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Firefly remain touchstones of the fantasy genre that affected many a project that came after them; he was heavily involved with Dollhouse, Agents of SHIELD (showrun by brother...
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Cate Shortland, the director of Lore and Berlin Syndrome, looks to be the director selected to helm Marvel‘s long-gestating Black Widow movie. The concept of a film built around Natasha Romanoff, the assassin-turned-Avenger, has been in the works for a long time, especially with early criticism that however successful...
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Robocop, directed by Paul Verhoeven, is one of those seminal touchstones of the action genre, its blend of unapologetic hard-boiled violence with an often under-appreciated vein of satire about society and its throwaway culture (prediction: a reality-show President – who knew?) arguably way ahead of its time. The original...
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As even the most casual of Stephen King fans know, a lot of his stories take place in or around the town of Castle Rock, the fictional Maine enclave which has seen murderous clowns, possessed cars, rabid dogs and no shortage of dead bodies and deadly intents. So perhaps...
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What do you do when you’ve just wiped out half the universe? That might be the problem facing directors Anthony and Joe Russo, who helmed Avengers: Infinity War to record-breaking numbers earlier this year. The answer is that you look to projects that provide drama on an intense but...
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The recent trailer for Shane Black’s The Predator was fine in and of itself, but didn’t seem to represent the ‘R’ rated aspect we’d been promised by the film-maker and the production. The first footage we were seeing dealt with the idea of a young boy accidentally triggering a...
Mark Millar has long been the wunderkind of the comics community. His work might not be to everyone’s tastes and he’s proven a deft hand at deliberately courting controversy and infamy with well-managed stunts and Olympic-level self-promotion, but his comics have, without question, taken tried-and-tested comic-book formulas and given...
There’s a solid history of fan-made projects that emulate professional properties. The likes of Star Wars, Star Trek, Harry Potter, Predator and countless other franchises have generated fan-made productions that can range in quality from deliberately fun but improvised and bootleg to full-on projects that look every bit as...
There’s still a few months to go before the new season of Doctor Who begins across the UK (with simulcast across various other territories), but that doesn’t mean there isn’t time for a teaser. Last year, the BBC chose the Wimbledon final to showcase Jodie Whittaker’s first real appearance...
There was once a time when Joss Whedon could do no wrong. Projects such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Firefly remain touchstones of the fantasy genre that affected many a project that came after them; he was heavily involved with Dollhouse, Agents of SHIELD (showrun by brother...
Cate Shortland, the director of Lore and Berlin Syndrome, looks to be the director selected to helm Marvel‘s long-gestating Black Widow movie. The concept of a film built around Natasha Romanoff, the assassin-turned-Avenger, has been in the works for a long time, especially with early criticism that however successful...
Robocop, directed by Paul Verhoeven, is one of those seminal touchstones of the action genre, its blend of unapologetic hard-boiled violence with an often under-appreciated vein of satire about society and its throwaway culture (prediction: a reality-show President – who knew?) arguably way ahead of its time. The original...
As even the most casual of Stephen King fans know, a lot of his stories take place in or around the town of Castle Rock, the fictional Maine enclave which has seen murderous clowns, possessed cars, rabid dogs and no shortage of dead bodies and deadly intents. So perhaps...
What do you do when you’ve just wiped out half the universe? That might be the problem facing directors Anthony and Joe Russo, who helmed Avengers: Infinity War to record-breaking numbers earlier this year. The answer is that you look to projects that provide drama on an intense but...
The recent trailer for Shane Black’s The Predator was fine in and of itself, but didn’t seem to represent the ‘R’ rated aspect we’d been promised by the film-maker and the production. The first footage we were seeing dealt with the idea of a young boy accidentally triggering a...
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...