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Countdown to Justice League – DC: The New Frontier

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Ricky Church continues his countdown to Justice League with Darwyn Cooke’s DC: The New Frontier… Over the years there has been a lot of stories that has told how the Justice League first became a team. I already went over Justice League: Origin in my countdown as a modern-day story for the team’s first adventure. This story, […]

Ben Affleck, Deborah Snyder and Charles Roven on Joss Whedon’s Justice League involvement

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Ever since director Zack Snyder dropped out of completing Justice League due to a family tragedy, people have wondered just how much of a role Joss Whedon would be taking as he stepped in to complete the film. He already made a couple big decisions, such as firing composer Junkie XL and replacing him with Danny Elfman, […]

Krypton casts Paula Malcomson and Blake Ritson in pivotal roles

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Some more casting announcements have been made for SyFy’s upcoming Superman prequel series, Krypton. According to Deadline, the show has cast Ray Donovan’s Paula Malcomson in a pivotal guest-starring role and Da Vinci’s Demons‘ Blake Ritson as a series villainous regular. Malcomson will portray Charys-El, the matriarch of the House of El and mother to Cameron Cuffe’s Seg-El, […]

Comic Book Review – Wonder Woman: The Rebirth Deluxe Edition Book 1

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Ricky Church reviews Wonder Woman: The Rebirth Deluxe Edition Book 1… One of the most consistently enjoyable titles of DC’s Rebirth initiative was Wonder Woman, with Greg Rucka returning to the title after a very successful and beloved run in the mid-00s. Rucka’s latest story featured Diana on the hunt for the truth after discovering her […]

Luke re-enters the Millennium Falcon in new Star Wars: The Last Jedi spot

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During the final game of tonight’s World Series, a new TV spot for Star Wars: The Last Jedi aired that shows Luke Skywalker re-entering the ship that began his adventure many years ago, the Millennium Falcon. Watch the spot here… SEE ALSO: US theaters angered by Star Wars: The Last Jedi demands In Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Last […]

Countdown to Justice League – The Cadmus Arc

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Ricky Church continues his countdown to Justice League by looking at The Cadmus Arc… From the early-90s to mid-00s, DC fans were spoiled in the animated format thanks to the DC Animated Universe. Starting with the amazing and classic Batman: The Animated Series, DC and Warner Bros. Animation went through several animated series that all connected […]

Mark Strong eyed for Shazam villain role, Grace Fulton joins the cast

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Mark Strong may be revisiting the DC Universe, though not as Green Lantern’s nemesis Sinestro, but this time as the villain in Shazam. The Wrap is reporting that Strong is being eyed to play Doctor Sivana, one of Shazam’s most frequent foes. In the comics, Sivana is a scientist who seeks magic to benefit his works, […]

J.K. Simmons meets his Other in trailer for sci-fi thriller Counterpart

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Starz has released the trailer for their sci-fi spy thriller series Counterpart, starring Whiplash‘s J.K. Simmons. Simmons stars as Howard Silk, a low-level agency employee who discovers his opposite from a parallel world, a man very different yet similar in nearly every way to himself. The two Howards have to work together to stop an assassin sent […]

The Lion King’s full cast revealed, Beyonce confirmed as Nala

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The full cast for Jon Favreau’s live-action take on Disney’s classic The Lion King has been revealed with mega-artist Beyonce being one of the last to join the film. She will play Nala as an adult and shared a photo of the rest of the cast over her Facebook page, while Disney shared via Twitter. The other […]