Tony Black on Bran’s Cold Handed saviour… MAJOR spoilers for Game of Thrones – Season 6 Episode 6 – ‘Blood of My Blood’. So hands up who thought Bran Stark was dead meat after the traumatic end of ‘The Door’? With poor old Hodor fulfilling his manifest destiny, his all-seeing Raven mentor cut to ribbons, […]
Bloodline Season 2 Episode 1 Review
Gary McCurry reviews the first episode of Bloodline season 2… The haunting opening credits gives life to season two of Bloodline. Questions remain unanswered while new ones pile up as we take a trip to Florida Keys and are Welcomed, once again to Rayburn House. The visual style is as distinctive as always, using lens […]
Wayward Pines Season 2 Episode 1 Review – ‘Enemy Lines’
Martin Carr reviews the first episode of Wayward Pines season 2… There are a few problems following success. First thing is how to repeat that without copying beat for beat whatever came before. Your options are limited and involve calculated risk, plain risk or reinvention. From a network perspective the latter is a non-starter as […]
Gotham Season 2 Episode 22 Review – ‘Transference’
Martin Carr reviews the season 2 finale of Gotham… With a fire and ice standoff, Russian roulette question and answer sessions and Gordon bound in the basement, Gotham’s finale ‘Transference’ was shaping up to be an interesting proposition. What felt a bit odd though was the lack of finality about the season closer, bearing in […]
Preacher Season 1 Episode 1 Review – ‘Pilot’
Martin Carr reviews the first episode of Preacher… If Tarantino did comic book adaptations Preacher would surely be at the top of his wish list. Frenetically shocking, blood soaked yet concise, what remains the biggest surprise in its opening minutes are Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg. For men who are more associated with Judd Apatow, […]
Stephen King’s Mr. Mercedes gets 10-episode TV series order
Back in January it was announced that David E. Kelley (L.A. Law, Boston Legal) was adapting Stephen King’s 2014 novel Mr. Mercedes as a TV series, and now The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that AT&T’s Audience Network has placed a 10-episode straight to series order, with Brandan Gleeson (In Bruges) and Anton Yelchin (Star Trek) […]
The Week in Spandex – X-Men: Apocalypse box office, Wolverine 3 villains, Chris Evans keen on Spider-Man cameo, Joss Whedon open to female Avengers movie, Wesley Snipes on Blade return, Suicide Squad promo artwork, Stephen Amell wants Arrow to go back-to-basics and more
In this edition of The Week in Spandex, we look at X-Men: Apocalypse, X-Force, Wolverine 3, Captain America: Civil War, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Animated Spider-Man, Thor: Ragnarok, Captain Marvel, Black Panther, Blade, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, Daredevil, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Batman, The Flash, Arrow, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow and more… Having opened in […]
Dave Filoni brings Star Wars Rebels season 3 to Star Wars Celebration Europe
Lucasfilm has announced that Star Wars Rebels executive producer and supervising director Dave Filoni is headed to Star Wars Celebration Europe in London this July, where he and special guests will be sharing guarded sneak peeks at what’s to come in season three of Rebels, including a screening of the first two episodes. SEE ALSO: […]
Mirror’s Edge heading to the small screen for TV series
EA DICE’s video game franchise Mirror’s Edge is heading to the small screen, with Deadline reporting that Endemol Shine Studios has snapped up the rights to develop a female-centred action series. “We clearly see Mirror’s Edge as a franchise for the global TV audience,” said Sharon Hall, President of Endemol Shine Studios. “It has a […]
Stephen Amell wants to go back to “the core elements” of Arrow for season 5
Following last night’s season four finale of Arrow [read our review here], star Stephen Amell has been chatting to Entertainment Weekly about the future of the DC series, stating that he’d like to see the fifth season going back-to-basics to focus on “the core elements” that defined the show prior to The CW’s superhero expansion. […]
