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Comic Book Review – First Strike #6

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Ricky Church reviews First Strike #6…IDW’s big event series First Strike comes to an end as Optimus Prime and the G.I. Joes make one last ditch effort to save Cybertron. The finale gives a fairly satisfying conclusion to IDW’s second crossover, though there are a few structural problem in its story and artwork that keeps it from […]

Hellboy comes to Injustice 2 with new gameplay trailer

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Injustice 2 continues to roll out its DLC characters and next up is Dark Horse’s Hellboy. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and NetherRealm Studios have released a gameplay trailer for the upcoming character, showing off several of his moves against DC’s heroes and villains. Check out the trailer below…Created by Mike Mignola, Hellboy is a half-demon that […]

Olivia Colman will replace Claire Foy for The Crown seasons 3 and 4

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It looks like Netflix’s The Crown will get quite a shake-up in its future seasons. Come Season 3, Claire Foy will no longer portray Queen Elizabeth II, but will be replaced in the role by Broadchurch’s Olivia Colman. The change is to better portray the key characters as they age, something series creator Peter Morgan had always planned. […]

Ethan Hawke featured on poster for 24 Hours to Live

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Ahead of its world premiere at the Austin Film Festival, the poster for 24 Hours to Live, the upcoming action thriller from the producers of John Wick, has been released online. Directed by Brian Smrz, the film stars Ethan Hawke, Xu Qing, Liam Cunningham, Rutger Hauer, and Paul Anderson in this action thriller about an assassin with […]

Netflix renews American Vandal for second season

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Netflix has announced today it has renewed its new series American Vandal for a second season, with the true crime mockumentary series set to return in 2018 for an eight episode season. The streaming service also released an announcement video on the show’s renewal, teasing what we might expect from the second season. Watch it here…American Vandal was […]

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s The Kingkiller Chronicle is heading to Showtime

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Its been almost a year since we last heard about the adaptation of The Kingkiller Chronicle from Lin-Manuel Miranda with John Rogers (The Librarians) acting as showrunner, and now it finally has a home. The series is set to air on Showtime from Lionsgate with series author Patrick Rothfuss as an executive producer, and is an adaptation of […]

Netflix announces Stranger Things aftershow Beyond Stranger Things

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Following in the footsteps of AMC’s aftershows for The Walking Dead and Breaking Bad, Netflix will have its own aftershow for the second season of Stranger Things. Hosted by writer and actor Jim Rash (Community), Beyond Stranger Things will premiere October 27, the same day season two begins.Beyond Stranger Things will feature a rotating cast of guests to talk about inspiration for […]

Karen Page featured on new poster for The Punisher

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We’re less than a month out from the premiere of Marvel’s The Punisher on Netflix and now we have a new poster for the upcoming series. Rather than showing more of Jon Bernthal’s Frank Castle, the poster instead features Deborah Ann Woll’s Karen Page. Woll plays Karen in Daredevil, where she and Castle formed an unlikely friendship/alliance in […]

Listen to Danny Elfman’s Justice League ‘Hero’s Theme’

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Ever since Danny Elfman replaced Junkie XL as the composer for Justice League, many have wondered exactly what his score would sound like. Elfman has created some of the most memorable themes for superheroes on film, like the theme for Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy or, most importantly, the iconic Batman theme from Tim Burton’s Batman. Entertainment Weekly has now […]