Crash & Cary: Bond gets new director and 2020 release…
Cary Joji Fukunaga who rose to prominence after directing the first series of HBO‘s acclaimed True Detective and the 2015 Idris Elba movie, Beasts of No Nation, is the man … Read More
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Loki, high profile: Marvel / Disney set new series..?
It seemed inevitable that Disney‘s plans for a streaming service would end up creating yet more opportunities for their current big-screen properties to reach out even further. With a plan … Read More
Live Brie or Die. The ‘Captain Marvel’ trailer at last…
There’s been a long wait when it comes to Marvel giving audiences a female-led superhero film. There’s been plenty of supporting talent and earlier this year Evangeline Lilly’s Wasp shared … Read More
RIP – Burt Reynolds: Actor, comedian and bandit…
Burt Reynolds – the archetype action hero of the 1970s and the man around whom the Smokey and the Bandit and Cannonball Run franchises were built – has passed away … Read More
‘Designated Survivor’ lives up to its name…
Add another name to the list of shows supposedly cancelled and sent off into reruns that have subsequently been saved and find themselves moving on to pastures new. The likes … Read More
Who: Time and Relative Dimensions on Sundays…
Well, it’s about time – and now it’s official. After being a staple of Saturday night television in the UK for much of its fifty-plus years of broadcast (let’s ignore … Read More
A Long Timey-Whimey Ago? Smith heads to Star Wars…
It appears that Matt Smith, who played the tenth incarnation of The Doctor is staying within the sf genre for an upcoming venture, possibly swapping a sonic screwdriver for a … Read More
Safety First? ‘MacGyver’ stuntman injured…
There seems to be some off-screen drama regarding the reboot of MacGyver which is currently shooting its third season in Atlanta and will return to CBS on 28th September. Stunt … Read More
No conjecture: ‘Big Bang Theory’ to end in 2019…
Top-rated comedy The Big Bang Theory will finally finish a twelve year and 279 episode run that began in 2007 and ends in spring 2019, establishing it as a record-breaking … Read More
No ‘007 Less Ordinary’: Boyle chooses exit from Bond 25…
Danny Boyle, the director behind such key films as Trainspotting, 28 Days Later, Sunshine and Slumdog Millionaire was due to direct the as-yet-untitled twenty-fifth Bond movie, but we’ll never know … Read More
Iron Fist lays down Gauntlet (not Infinity)…
The first season of Netflix‘s Iron Fist received a mixed reaction, debuting at a time when it had a lot of pressure to live up to other Marvel collaborations (Daredevil, … Read More
Ruby Rose proves Orange is the new Bat…
Orange Is The New Black actress Ruby Rose has been announced to play Kate Kane, aka Batwoman in a new television series that The CW is developing for the 2019/2020 season. … Read More
Powerplays: Madden and Hawes star in BBC’s ‘Bodyguard’…
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 … Read More
The Seagal has landed…a more diplomatic role?
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 … Read More
Make it So! Sir Patrick to reprise Picard for new Trek…
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 … Read More