Martin Carr reviews the first episode of The Orville season 2… Few writers can imbue the puerile with pathos, make micturition both emotive yet amusing and create forty minutes of engaging drama using bodily functions as their inspiration. Few that is apart from Seth MacFarlane who uses nothing more substantial to give us an opening […]
Gotham Season 5 Episode 1 Review – ‘Year Zero’
Martin Carr reviews the first episode of Gotham season 5… Post-apocalyptic Gotham is not as was hoped full of odious surprises, cryptic villains and heavy fire power. Instead territories are carved up and ruled by influence, muscle, economics or sheer numbers. Cut off from civilisation and mustering forces in a constant battle for food, medicine, […]
The Orville Season 2 Episode 2 Review – ‘Primal Urges’
Martin Carr reviews the second episode of The Orville season 2… There is a sensitivity, skill and structural balance at work here which demonstrates what continues to make The Orville so special. Multiple story threads, taboo subjects and same sex unions explored with consideration within a plausibly dramatic set of scenarios. MacFarlane starts from a […]
Daredevil Season 3 Episode 7 Review – ‘Aftermath’
Martin Carr reviews the seventh episode of Daredevil season 3… As Fisk continues to tighten his noose there is an emotional circling of wagons, interrogations which cast aspersions and psychological mind games running rampant. Aside from the restricted opulence which Wilson Fisk surrounds himself with this episode allows us a closer look into his methods […]
Tim Miller and David Fincher team with Netflix for Love, Death & Robots
Netflix has announced that it is teaming with Tim Miller (Deadpool) and David Fincher (The Social Network) for a new animated anthology series entitled Love, Death & Robots. The series will consist of 18 animated shorts spanning sci-fi, fantasy, horror and comedy, and featuring characters such as “sentient dairy products, werewolf soldiers and robots gone […]
HBO chief says Game of Thrones showrunners have “exceeded the bar” with final season
After unveiling the first footage on Sunday night, HBO chief Richard Plepler has now been talking up the hugely-anticipated eighth season of its epic fantasy series Game of Thrones, stating that showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have “exceeded the bar” with the show’s final six episodes. “It’s a spectacle,” Plepler tells Variety. “The guys […]
Sam Rockwell and Michelle Williams star in Fosse/Verdon trailer
FX has released a first trailer for Fosse/Verdon, an eight-part limited series which stars Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) as Bob Fosse and Michelle Williams (Venom) as Gwen Verdon. Based upon Sam Wasson’s biography Fosse, the eight-part series will explore the romantic and creative partnership between Fosse, the Tony Award-winning choreographer and Oscar-nominated filmmaker […]
Hanna shows off her combat skills in new trailer for Amazon’s TV series
After releasing its first mysterious teaser trailer over the weekend, Amazon has revealed another teaser for its upcoming action thriller series Hanna, which is based upon the 2011 film of the same name and follows a young girl trained and engineered to be an assassin as dark government forces chase her down. The latest teaser sees […]
Nominations for the 2019 WGA Awards announced
Coming hot on the heels of last night’s Golden Globe Awards, the Writer’s Guild of America has now announced the nominations for the feature film and video game categories of the 2019 WGA Awards. Set to contest the Best Original Screenplay prize are Eighth Grade, Green Book, A Quiet Place, Roma and Vice, while BlacKkKlansman, […]
First-look footage from HBO’s Watchmen revealed
HBO has the first official footage from the upcoming small screen adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ seminal superhero comic book series Watchmen as part of a promo for the cable network’s 2019 slate; the footage gives very little away, although we do get a brief shot of Jeremy Irons who teases that “it’s only […]
