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Comic Book Review – Cave Carson Has A Cybernetic Eye Vol. 1: Going Underground

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Ricky Church reviews Cave Carson Has A Cybernetic Eye Vol. 1: Going Underground… Cave Carson has done it all: survived countless adventures below the Earth’s surface, met the love of his life, and gotten a cybernetic eye…somehow. Now, newly widowed, Cave tries to piece his life back together when a knock on the door of his […]

Annie Parisse joins Al Pacino in HBO’s Joe Paterno film

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Vinyl actress Annie Parisse is set to make a return to HBO for the as-yet-untitled film about Joe Paterno and the Penn State sexual abuse scandal. Directed by Barry Levinson, the film sees legendary football coach Joe Paterno (Al Pacino), who is considered to be the most successful coach in college football history, embroiled in Penn State’s Jerry Sandusky […]

Martin Scorsese casts Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel and Bobby Cannavale in The Irishman

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Martin Scorsese has cast some names that are quite familiar to fans of his movies in his upcoming film The Irishman for Netflix, with Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel and Bobby Cannavale set to join Robert De Niro and Al Pacino (though the latter’s deal is still being finalized). It was reported a couple months ago that Pesci was being […]

Westworld season 2 casts The Leftovers’ Katja Herbers

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HBO’s hit series Westworld will see a new face enter the park for its second season. The show has cast Katja Herbers, who is an HBO veteran from The Leftovers, for the upcoming season. Her other credits have included FX’s The Americans and Manhattan. Herbers will star as Grace, a seasoned guest of Westworld who visited visit the park just as its “darkest […]

Jorge Lendeborg Jr. cast in Bumblebee Transformers spin-off

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Paramount has announced another cast addition to Bumblebee, the spin-off from Michael Bay’s Transformers franchise focused on the Autobot scout. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jorge Lendeborg Jr. will join Pitch Perfect 2‘s Hailee Steinfeld in the film. Bumblebee will be a prequel to the main Transformers series and is the first of what Paramount hopes will be a long line […]

Netflix to adapt Gerard Way’s The Umbrella Academy

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Netflix has acquired yet another series; the streaming service will adapt Gerard Way’s comic title The Umbrella Academy for a 10-episode run to premiere in 2018. The Umbrella Academy follows a dysfunctional family of superheroes that come together in order to solve their father’s possible murder. Fargo’s Steve Blackman will executive producer and showrun the series while The Exorcist’s Jeremy Slater has […]

Christopher Nolan is working on 4K remasters of The Dark Knight Trilogy

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Its probably needless to say, but Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight trilogy – made up of Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises – are considered by many to be among the best comic book films made, some even going so far as to say that they transcended the comic book genre. Nolan is currently on the press […]

Michael C. Hall and Amanda Abbington to star in Netflix drama series Safe

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Former Dexter and Sherlock stars Michael C. Hall and Amanda Abbington have been cast in the new drama from Netflix and Canal+, Safe. The eight-part series comes from mystery author Harlan Coben and the UK’s Shameless’ Danny Brocklehurst, who will also write the series. Safe will see Hall as a British paediatric surgeon raising two teenage daughters, Jenny and Carrie, alone after the death […]

Katrina Law joins Sean Bean in The Oath

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Katrina Law (Spartacus: Blood and Sand, Arrow) is the latest to join The Oath, Crackle’s new series starring former Game of Thrones actor Sean Bean. The series comes from Hawaii Five-O creator Joe Haplin and also stars Ryan Kwanten (True Blood), Cory Hardrict (American Sniper) and Arlen Escarpeta (The Magicians). Law will portray Karen Beach, “a police officer, and the sole female […]

Comic Book Review – Transformers: Till All Are One #11

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Ricky Church reviews Transformers: Till All Are One #11… With Elita One’s influence closing in around Starscream, he’s desperate to make any alliances he can. Turns out, a powerful ally might already be within his grasp. But is he willing to risk his own sanity to reach them? Transformers: Till All Are One #11 may […]