Entertainment Weekly is reporting that The Vampire Diaries alum Susan Walters has joined the cast of The Flash for its third season, with the actress set to play Dr. Carla Tannhauser, the mother of Danielle Panabaker’s Caitlin Snow. The site describes the character as “a world class biomedical engineer and CEO of a major research […]
Stephen Amell teases four-way crossover between Arrow, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow and Supergirl
The CW’s DC crossover this year is going to be rather epic, bringing together Arrow, The Flash, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow and the network’s new acquisition Supergirl, and Stephen Amell has taken to Twitter to tease the four-way team-up with a set photo featuring Green Arrow, The Flash, The Atom, White Canary and Supergirl. Well, […]
Natalie Portman to star in Marta Kauffman’s We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves for HBO
Deadline is reporting that Natalie portman has signed on to produce and star in the HBO miniseries We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, which is being developed by Marta Kauffman (Grace and Frankie) and her Okay Goodnight production banner. Adapted from Karen Joy Fowler’s novel, the miniseries is described as “a twisty tale centered on […]
George R.R. Martin’s Wild Cards heading to the small screen
Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin has announced that his superhero anthology series Wild Cards is being developed for television by Universal Cable Productions. “The shared world of the Wild Cards diverged from our own on September 15, 1946 when an alien virus was released in the skies over Manhattan, and spread across an […]
Lionsgate discusses Divergent TV plans
Last month it was announced that Lionsgate has pulled The Divergent Series: Ascendant from its theatrical release schedule and is instead planning on producing a TV movie to wrap up the YA franchise. Speaking to Variety, Lionsgate’s Jon Feltheimer and Kevin Beggs have revealed that the plan is to use the TV movie to launch […]
The Week in Star Wars – More production problems for Rogue One, Star Wars TV series, Han Solo trilogy and more
The Week in Star Wars is back – and it’s another bumper edition. We’ve got the latest on production issues for Rogue One, a possible TV series, a rumoured Han Solo movie and more… We’ll kick things off this week with more news on production issues for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story [which got […]
Scream: The TV Series Season 2 Episode 10 Review – ‘The Vanishing’
Martin Carr reviews the tenth episode of Scream: The TV Series season 2… This week we are treated to references outside the horror genre, which for someone like me who has instant recall is a whole barrel of fun. Aside from the tagline we get direct and indirect hat tipping for Dirty Harry, Buried and […]
Preacher Season 1 Episode 10 Review – ‘Call and Response’
Martin Carr reviews the season one finale of Preacher… Interrogation scenes are nasty. Half the time any punishment metered out is never seen only heard, because to be effective an audience imagination remains essential. Let me remind the men of Casino Royale when Craig is tied to that chair and his man parts are discreetly […]
The Week in Spandex – Suicide Squad breaks records, DC fans take on Rotten Tomatoes, Avengers: Infinity War update, Spider-Man: Homecoming cameos, Deadpool 2, Gambit and more
In this edition of The Week in Spandex, we look at Suicide Squad, Wonder Woman, Batman, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Batman Triumphant, Watchmen, Supergirl, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Avengers: Infinity War, Doctor Strange, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Thor: Ragnarok, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Agent Carter, Marvel’s Most Wanted, Deadpool 2, […]
Scream: The TV Series Season 2 Episode 9 Review – ‘The Orphanage’
Martin Carr reviews the ninth episode of Scream: The TV Series season 2… Over the course of ‘The Orphanage’ there is some serious film referencing beyond that obvious tagline, which includes the eponymous Phantasm series and B-movie mainstay April Fool’s Day. This of course remains the charm of a series for anyone who ever loved […]
