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The first season of Netflix‘s Stranger Things was an amazing success – a series that combined a nostalgia trip for adults and a lesson in old-school scares for slightly younger viewers. The 1980s-set supernatural series told the story of a young group of kids in a small rural town...
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Marvel had a major presence at this year’s SDCC – at least in the television department. One of the projects that the studio (and FOX) are eager to promote is The Gifted. It’s the story of the government hunting down potential mutants. There’s something of a conflict of interest...
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Guillermo Del Toro has a reputation of visually-rich flights of fantasy – for films that range from Hellboy, through Pan’s Labyrinth and Pacific Rim. His next movie looks set to follow that visual style. The Shape of Water tells a love story between a mute woman (Sally Hawkins) and the...
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“Nevertheless, she regenerated…” Jodie Whittaker has formally been announced as the next Doctor Who. The decision – bound to be seen as controversial by some because it’s the first female incarnation of the Time Lord – was seen for the first time in a specially-shot teaser which debuted after...
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At a special memorial event on Sunday 25 June, the British Film Institute‘s CEO Amanda Nevill announced that BFI Southbank will host a film and television season dedicated to BFI Fellow Sir John Hurt, who died in January. The John Hurt season will take place at BFI Southbank from...
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There’s been decidedly mixed reactions to the latest entry in Michael Bay’s chrome-plated Transformers pantheon, The Last Knight. Most mainstream critics have slammed the story as more of the same in what is arguably becoming a wash-rinse-repeat franchise… but it’s also undeniably a franchise that goes after a very...
The first season of Netflix‘s Stranger Things was an amazing success – a series that combined a nostalgia trip for adults and a lesson in old-school scares for slightly younger viewers. The 1980s-set supernatural series told the story of a young group of kids in a small rural town...
Marvel had a major presence at this year’s SDCC – at least in the television department. One of the projects that the studio (and FOX) are eager to promote is The Gifted. It’s the story of the government hunting down potential mutants. There’s something of a conflict of interest...
Guillermo Del Toro has a reputation of visually-rich flights of fantasy – for films that range from Hellboy, through Pan’s Labyrinth and Pacific Rim. His next movie looks set to follow that visual style. The Shape of Water tells a love story between a mute woman (Sally Hawkins) and the...
“Nevertheless, she regenerated…” Jodie Whittaker has formally been announced as the next Doctor Who. The decision – bound to be seen as controversial by some because it’s the first female incarnation of the Time Lord – was seen for the first time in a specially-shot teaser which debuted after...
At a special memorial event on Sunday 25 June, the British Film Institute‘s CEO Amanda Nevill announced that BFI Southbank will host a film and television season dedicated to BFI Fellow Sir John Hurt, who died in January. The John Hurt season will take place at BFI Southbank from...
There’s been decidedly mixed reactions to the latest entry in Michael Bay’s chrome-plated Transformers pantheon, The Last Knight. Most mainstream critics have slammed the story as more of the same in what is arguably becoming a wash-rinse-repeat franchise… but it’s also undeniably a franchise that goes after a very...
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...