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Darth Maul’s original fate in Star Wars Rebels revealed

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Star Wars Rebels second season finale, ‘Twilight of the Apprentice’, ended with ex-Jedi Ahsoka Tano facing off against her former master/turned Sith Lord Darth Vader in an epic and emotional battle. It was also notable for the return of the former Sith apprentice Darth Maul as he met Ezra, Kanan and Ahsoka to take control […]

The Mandalorian Season 1 Episode 6 Review – ‘The Prisoner’

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Ricky Church reviews the sixth episode of The Mandalorian…. After last week’s rather mediocre episode, The Mandalorian has bounced back in a big way with ‘The Prisoner’ in an episode riddled with tension and nice action as Rick Famuyiwa returned to the director’s chair. With an entertaining story draped in the heist genre along with some new, […]

Star Wars: Ahsoka YA novel announced

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Ever since the finale to Star Wars Rebels’ first season and the revelation that Ahsoka Tano, Anakin Skywalker’s former apprentice from The Clone Wars series, is alive and well, fans have been speculating how exactly she dealt with Order 66’s aftermath and joined up with the growing Rebellion. Nerdist announced today that some of those […]

Star Wars Rebels: Why you should look forward to Season Two

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Ricky Church on why you should look forward to Star Wars Rebels season two… It goes without saying the Star Wars franchise has been undergoing a renaissance with the upcoming release of The Force Awakens. Excitement has just been mounting more and more with each trailer, press release and interview that has surfaced. Lately the […]

The Mandalorian Season 1 Episode 5 Review ‘The Gunslinger’

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Ricky Church reviews the fifth episode of The Mandalorian, ‘The Gunslinger’… While not as exciting or introspective as the previous episodes have been, The Mandalorian‘s ‘The Gunslinger’ was still an entertaining chapter in the Star Wars series with plenty of nods to several of the films. The one action scene in the middle provided a nice, tense sequence […]

Patrick Wilson will return as Ocean Master in Aquaman 2

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Aquaman star Patrick Wilson, who played the hero’s half-brother and the film’s villain Orm, aka Ocean Master, has revealed to The Hollywood Reporter he will be returning Aquaman 2 and has spoken to director James Wan about what is in store for the Altanteans in their next adventure. Wilson could not say much, but he told THR […]

Blu-ray Review – It Chapter Two (2019)

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It Chapter Two, 2019. Directed by Andy Muschietti. Starring James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Bill Skargard, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, Jay Ryan, James Ransone, Andy Bean, Teach Grant, Jaeden Martell, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, Chosen Jacobs, Jack Dylan Grazer, Wyatt Oleff, and Nicholas Hamilton. SYNOPSIS: Twenty-seven years after their first encounter with the […]

Kaya Scodelario and January Jones star in trailer for ice skating drama Spinning Out

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Netflix has released the trailer for its upcoming drama series Spinning Out. The series, which stars Kaya Scodelario (The Maze Runner) and January Jones (Mad Men), follows a competitive figure skater as she tries to get back into the sport after a terrible accident. Also starring in the series are Evan Roderick, Willow Shields, Amanda […]

Thomas Lennon to recur in Supergirl as Mister Mxyzptlk

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Even as The CW’s Arrowverse is going through the universe-ending Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover, it hasn’t stopped plans for each of the series’ future. Deadline has reported Supergirl‘s fifth season will see the return of the fifth-dimensional trickster imp Mister Mxyzptlk with Thomas Lennon (Reno 911!) in a recurring role. Mxyzptlk (pronounced Miks-yez-pit-el-ik) is a powerful […]