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Michael Shannon joins AMC’s The Little Drummer Girl adaptation

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AMC has made another casting addition to its upcoming miniseries adaptation of John le Carré’s The Little Drummer Girl with the news that Michael Shannon (The Shape of Water) has joined Alexander Skarsgard (Big Little Lies) and Florence Pugh (Lady Macbeth) in the series. Shannon will portray Kurtz, an Isreali spymaster who recruits Pugh’s character into a complex […]

Tom Cruise reveals Mission: Impossible 6 title, teases helicopter stunt

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Mission: Impossible star Tom Cruise has joined Instagram and his first official post has been to reveal the title for the upcoming sixth instalment of the franchise: Mission: Impossible – Fallout. Cruise also revealed a new photo from the film with him once again performing a high octane stunt as he clings to the side of a […]

Game of Thrones’ Hannah Waddingham cast as mad Kryptonian scientist Jax-Ur in Krypton

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The Superman prequel series Krypton has just gained an additional cast member. Hannah Waddingham, who played Septa Unella (otherwise known as the Shame Nun) in Game of Thrones, has been cast as Jax-Ur, one of Krypton’s most prominent yet mad scientists. Jax-Ur was one of Krypton’s most renowned scientists. In the comics, Jax-Ur experimented with a nuclear-level weapon […]

Meryl Streep joins Big Little Lies season 2

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HBO’s adaptation of Big Little Lies already had several A-list actresses attached in its first season, most prominently Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman, but now an even bigger name has joined the cast for the show’s second season. Meryl Streep, who was just nominated an Academy Award for the 21st time for her role in The Post, will star […]

Blu-ray Review – Geostorm (2017)

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Geostorm, 2017. Directed by Dean Devlin. Starring Gerard Butler, Katheryn Winnick, Jim Sturgess, Abbie Cornish, Andy Garcia, Zazie Beetz, and Ed Harris. SYNOPSIS: When the network of satellites designed to control the global climate start to attack Earth, it’s a race against the clock to uncover the real threat before a worldwide geostorm wipes out […]

New Pacific Rim Uprising trailer released

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After the release of the new poster for Pacific Rim Uprising yesterday, the latest trailer for the sequel has now been released online. Starring John Boyega (Star Wars: The Last Jedi), the world is once again threatened by Kaiju monsters and it’s up to Boyega’s Jake Pentecost and other Jaeger pilots to save mankind. Watch the new […]

Westworld’s Angela Sarafyan and John Malkovich cast in Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile

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As the Ted Bundy pic Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, starring Zac Efron (The Greatest Showman) as the serial killer, begins production, the film has cast one of Westworld‘s supporting hosts: Angela Sarafyan, who plays Clementine in the HBO series. According to Deadline, she will portray Joanna, a close friend and confidant to Lily Collins’ Elizabeth, Bundy’s […]

Book Review – Iron Gold by Pierce Brown

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Ricky Church reviews Iron Gold by Pierce Brown… Pierce Brown’s Red Rising trilogy ended a couple years ago, but the author has returned to his high concept sci-fi tale in an intriguing first chapter of a new trilogy. Where the Red Rising trilogy followed a slave revolution across the solar system, Iron Gold picks up a decade after the events of […]

Comic Book Review – Trinity Vol. 2: Dead Space

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Ricky Church reviews Trinity Vol. 2: Dead Space… Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman are considered the big three figures of the Justice League and worthy of their own series. Whereas the first volume of Trinity was an introspective look at the heroes similarities and differences, the second volume, Dead Space, offers more of an action story as most […]