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Martin Scorsese wraps production on The Irishman

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Martin Scorsese has just announced a production wrap on his latest film, The Irishman. The film marks a return for Scorsese to the mobster crime genre and stars Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Harvey Keitel, Anne Paquin and a coming-out-of-retirement Joe Pesci for the film. Scorsese made the announcement over his Instagram page, simply saying “That’s […]

Comic Book Review – Optimus Prime #16

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Ricky Church reviews Optimus Prime #16… Even though Optimus Prime #16 is a relatively quiet issue, things are never quite dull on Cybertron. The feared and mythical Onyx Prime has returned to the planet in ‘The Falling Part 2’, but rather than outright attacking it the majority of the issue features a parlay between him, Optimus, Windblade […]

Comic Book Review – Optimus Prime Annual 2018

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Ricky Church reviews Optimus Prime Annual 2018… Its funny that considering this issue is the special annual for IDW’s Optimus Prime series, the title hero is only featured in one or two quick panels at the very beginning. The rest of the issue is devoted to Starscream and Thundercracker, taking place in between the final issues of Tranformers: […]

Comic Book Review – The New Teen Titans: The Judas Contract Deluxe Edition

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Ricky Church reviews The New Teen Titans: The Judas Contract Deluxe Edition… Deathstroke is one of DC’s most fan-favourite villains whose popularity has soared in recent years. Between his appearances in Arrow, the video game Batman: Arkham Origins and the cameo he made in the post-credits scene for Justice League, he’s been popping up a lot. Now fans […]

The Magicians renewed for fourth season

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SyFy has announced it has renewed its hit series The Magicians for a fourth season. The announcement came from the series’ own Twitter page, where the also released a motion poster for the show. The Magicians‘ fourth season will air in 2019 for a 13-episode season. Based on Lev Grossman’s bestselling novels, The Magicians centers on Quentin Coldwater (Jason Ralph) […]

Avengers: Infinity War will be released one week earlier thanks to Robert Downey Jr.

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Robert Downey Jr. is a stand-out among fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but he may be loved by fans even more now. In a Twitter exchange between him and Marvel Studios, Downey appears to have gotten the release date for Avengers: Infinity War moved up by one week for April 27th rather than May 4th. The […]

Netflix’s The Witcher character breakdowns revealed

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Its been a little while since we’ve heard anything about Netflix’s The Witcher series, based on the books by Andrzej Sapkowski, but we finally have some concrete information about the upcoming adaptation. Lauren S. Hissrich (Daredevil, The Defenders), the showrunner, writer and executive producer for the series, revealed several of the character breakdowns over her Twitter page, revealing […]

Big Little Lies gets more returning faces for season 2

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On the heels of the news Adam Scott will return to Monterey in the second season of HBO’s Big Little Lies, we have news of more returning characters to the upcoming season. James Tupper, Jeffrey Nordling and Iain Armitage are set to reprise their roles in season 2. Tupper returns as Nathan Carlson, the ex-husband to […]

Rick Famuyiwa to write and direct Black Hole adaptation

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Though he is no longer directing The Flash, director Rick Famuyiwa (Dope) has another project relating to the comic book genre coming up. The Hollywood Reporter has announced Famuyiwa will write and direct an adaptation of Charles Burns’ graphic novel Black Hole for Plan B and New Regency. Burns wrote the 12-issue Black Hole series over a 10 year period […]