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Sesame Street parodies Game of Thrones with Game of Chairs

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With Game of Thrones set to return to TV screens for its fifth season tomorrow night, Sesame Street has produced a parody of HBO’s epic fantasy series entitled ‘Game of Chairs’, which features Grover Bluejoy alongside puppet versions of the likes of Daenerys, Tyrion, Cersei, Joffrey, Ned and company. Check it out here… SEE ALSO: […]

Avengers: Age of Ultron: No Captain Marvel, and no post-credits scene

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Of all the rumours that have been floating around about Avengers: Age of Ultron, one of the most persistent has been the possible inclusion of Carol Danvers ahead of the Captain Marvel movie in 2018. The speculation increased earlier this month when it was revealed that Julie Delpy (Before Midnight) and Linda Cardellini (Freaks and […]

Superhero Showdown 2015 – Avengers: Age of Ultron vs Ant-Man vs The Fantastic Four

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Gary Collinson on the 2015 superhero box office showdown… REVISITING LAST YEAR’S PREDICTIONS Before we turn our attention to this year’s line-up of superhero movies, we’ll start as always by casting our eye back twelve months to last year’s predictions, as Marvel continued the build to Avengers: Age of Ultron with Captain America: The Winter […]

Arnold Schwarzenegger on Terminator: Salvation: “It sucked”

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This summer Arnold Schwarzenegger reprises his signature role of The Terminator in director Alan Taylor’s sequel/reboot of the iconic sci-fi franchise, Terminator Genisys, and the Austrian Oak appeared on Good Morning America to discuss his return to the franchise, during which he shared his thoughts on the previous instalment, Terminator: Salvation. “Thank God,” said Arnie, […]

The Week in Spandex – Avengers: Age of Ultron, Daredevil, Deadpool, Wolverine, The Fantastic Four, Suicide Squad, Aquaman, Shazam, Batman ’66 and more

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In this edition of The Week in Spandex, we look at Avengers: Age of Ultron, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Daredevil, The Punisher, Luke Cage, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Agent Carter, Deadpool, Wolverine 3, X-Men: Apocalypse, X-Men: Days of Future Past, The Fantastic Four, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Suicide Squad, Aquaman, Shazam, Justice League Dark, […]

Ben Hardy confirmed as Angel in X-Men: Apocalypse

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A few days ago Bryan Singer debuted some production art from X-Men: Apocalypse which revealed that Angel will be making an appearance in next year’s mutant superhero sequel, and now The Wrap’s Jeff Sneider has confirmed that former EastEnders star Ben Hardy is set to play the winged mutant. Angel is a prominent character in […]

Hayley Atwell talks Agent Carter season 2, a potential Peggy movie, and her Ant-Man role

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Hayley Atwell was in attendance at the Emerald City ComicCon on Friday, during which she took part in a Q&A to discuss her role as Peggy Carter in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, during which the conversation covered ABC’s Agent Carter, the chances of a second season and a movie spin-off for the World War II […]

UPDATE: Roger Moore says Idris Elba can’t be Bond as 007 should be “English-English”

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Back during the Sony hack in December, leaked documents indicated that the studio are keen on British actor Idris Elba taking over the role of James Bond when Daniel Craig decides to call it a day and retire his license to kill. Since then, we’ve heard former 007 Pierce Brosnan endorsing Elba for the part, […]

Simon Pegg says Star Trek 3 will have “the spirit of the TV show”

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A few days ago Simon Pegg spoke about his work alongside Doug Jung on the script for Paramount Pictures’ Star Trek 3, stating that the screenplay had to be finished by June “come hell or high water”, and now he’s offered up a few comments on the tone they’re going for on the threequel during […]