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DC announces Batman/Catwoman Special from Tom King and John Paul Leon

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DC Comics has announced that the Eisner-nominated Black Death in America creative team of Tom King and John Paul Leon are reuniting for a interlude issue in King’s Batman/Catwoman maxiseries with a one-shot Batman/Catwoman Special set for release this July. Batman/Catwoman Special will trace the life of Selina Kyle from her earliest days to her entry […]

Starz orders horror-comedy series Shining Vale starring Courteney Cox, Greg Kinnear and Mira Sorvino

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Starz has announced that it has granted an eight-episode series order to Shining Vale, a new horror-comedy series which will see Friends and Scream star Courteney Cox leading a cast that also includes Greg Kinnear, Mira Sorvino, Merrin Dungey, Gus Birney and Dylan Gage. As per THR, Shining Vale will see Cox playing Patricia “Pat” […]

Reina Hardesty joins Amazon’s The Boys spinoff in lead role

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Deadline is reporting that Reina Hardesty (Brockmire, The Flash) has been cast in one of the lead roles in Amazon’s as-yet-untitled college-set spinoff from the hit comic book adaptation The Boys. The spinoff, which has been written by The Boys executive producer Craig Rosenberg, the potential show takes place at a college for superheroes and […]

The Avengers brace themselves for World War She-Hulk this July

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Marvel has announced that Jennifer Walters’ current journey is set to reach its pulse-pounding conclusion this July as the new story arc World War She-Hulk gets underway in the pages of Avengers #46. Paying homage to the homage to the 2007 World War Hulk crossover event, World War-Hulk promises to stand on its own as […]

Tom Hiddleston talks Marvel’s Loki series, says it’s about “identity”

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Despite his demise in Avengers: Infinity War, it seems you can’t keep a good trickster down as Tom Hiddleston reprises his role as the God of Mischief for Marvel Studios’ Loki series, where we’ll pick up with the alternate – and still evil – Loki we saw escaping from the Battle of new York with […]

Extreme Cinema – Cannibal Holocaust (1980)

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Cannibal Holocaust, 1980. Directed by Ruggero Deodato. Starring Robert Kerman, Francesca Ciardi, Carl Gabriel Yorke, Perry Pirkanen, Luca Barbareschi, Salvatore Basile and Ricardo Fuentes. SYNOPSIS: An anthropologist ventures into the Amazon in search of a missing American documentary film crew and retrieves their footage, which documents the gruesome truth behind the ill-fated expedition. One of […]

R.I.P. Helen McCrory (1968 – 2021)

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Some rather sad news this evening as it has been announced that Harry Potter and Peaky Blinders actress Helen McCrory has passed away aged just 52 after losing a battle with cancer. The announcement was made by her husband Damian Lewis, who posted the following to Twitter: pic.twitter.com/gSx8ib9PY9 — Damian Lewis (@lewis_damian) April 16, 2021 […]

Drug-fuelled alien abduction horror Fried Barry gets a trailer ahead of Shudder premiere

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Shudder has released a trailer for the sci-fi horror Fried Barry ahead of its premiere on the streaming service this May. Based on writer-director Ryan Kruger’s acclaimed 2017 short of the same name, the film stars Gary Green as Barry, a drug-addled deadbeat who is abducted by aliens that assume control of his body, taking […]

Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters gets connecting variant covers from John Cassaday

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Marvel has announced that acclaimed artist John Cassaday will return to a galaxy far, far away this June with a set of connecting variant covers for the hotly-anticipated Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters crossover event featuring Dengar, IG-88, Boba Fett, Bossk, 4-LOM and Zuckuss! Check them out here, and click the image for […]