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Book Review – Star Wars Battlefront II: Inferno Squad by Christie Golden

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Ricky Church reviews Star Wars Battlefront II: Inferno Squad… With Star Wars Battlefront II hitting consoles this fall, Christie Golden introduces fans to Inferno Squad, a highly trained special ops group sent on difficult assignments to thwart rebels and protect the Empire’s secrets. Golden writes a compelling story with interesting characters and doesn’t deliver the […]

Sylvester Stallone completes Creed 2 script, confirms Drago’s return

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Rocky actor Sylvester Stallone has revealed through an Instagram post that he has completed a draft of his script for Creed 2, the sequel to 2015’s Rocky spin-off Creed, which followed Michael B. Jordan as Apollo Creed’s son Adonis. He also revealed, through the handwritten notes he showed off, that we’ll be seeing the return of Rocky IV’s Ivan Drago, the […]

Doom Patrol/Justice League crossover coming in 2018

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DC’s Young Animal imprint has gained a lot of traction since it began last year as an outlet for mature readers than the stories usually told in the regular DC Comics titles. The books – Doom Patrol, Mother Panic, Shade The Changing Girl and Cave Carson Has A Cybernetic Eye – take place within the DCU, but are still relatively […]

Archer season 9 revealed to be Danger Island

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Over the last few years FXX’s animated spy comedy Archer has taken on specific themes with its seasons, beginning with Archer Vice and the most recent season as Archer Dreamland, inspired by the film noir genre. At the Archer panel at the San Diego Comic Con, executive producer Matt Thompson and co-executive producer Casey Willis, along with the cast of H. […]

Movie Review – Dunkirk (2017)

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Dunkirk, 2017. Written and Directed by Christopher Nolan. Starring Fionn Whitehead, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh, Harry Styles, Aneurin Barnard, Jack Lowden, James D’Arcy, Barry Keoghan, and Tom Glynn-Carney. SYNOPSIS: Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire and France are surrounded by the German army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War […]

SDCC: Wonder Woman’s Saïd Taghmaoui joins FX’s Legion as Shadow King, Dan Stevens on Patrick Stewart potentially appearing as Professor X

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Yesterday at the Hall-H panel for FX’s X-Men themed series Legion, it was announced that Saïd Taghmaoui, who recently starred in this summer’s blockbuster Wonder Woman, has been cast as the villainous Shadow King for the second season. Shadow King was hinted at in the first season through various characters. FX describes him as a “villain with a […]

UPDATE: Shazam! will be the next DC film to go into production, Dwayne Johnson will not appear

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As we get ready to hear what the future may hold for the DC Extended Universe following Justice League at the San Diego Comic Con, The Hollywood Reporter has news of the next DC feature that Warner Bros. is planning to shoot. According to the outlet, Shazam! will be the next DC film to roll beginning in January or […]

Invasion of the Body Snatchers remake coming from The Conjuring 2 writer and Predator producer

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Another remake is on the way, and this time it’s for a film that has had several remakes already. Deadline is reporting Warner Bros. is set to remake Invasion of the Body Snatchers and has hired The Conjuring 2 writer David Leslie Johnson to pen the script. He will be joined by John Davis, producer of the Predator films, including […]

Comic Book Review – Absolute Wonder Woman by Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chang Vol. 1

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Ricky Church reviews Absolute Wonder Woman by Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chang Vol. 1… In these tales from the start of DC—The New 52, Wonder Woman learns that Queen Hippolyta has kept a secret from her daughter all her life—and when Diana learns who her father is, her life will shatter like brittle clay. The […]