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Netflix Review – The Haunting of Bly Manor

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Shaun Munro reviews The Haunting of Bly Manor… Filmmaker Mike Flanagan (Doctor Sleep) set a perilously high bar for himself with 2018’s masterful Netflix Original series The Haunting of Hill House, which used its 10 episodes to tell a daring, emotionally rich reimagining of Shirley Jackson’s 1959 novel of the same name. Flanagan returns now […]

Lovecraft Country Season 1 Episode 8 – ‘Jig-A-Bobo’

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Martin Carr reviews the eighth episode Lovecraft Country… Brutal beatings, reams of barbed wire and a community in mourning work in opposition to an Eighties soundtrack. Demonic twins from Uncle Tom’s Cabin haunt the steps of a Freeman member, while Hippolyta remains at large. Elsewhere runes and rituals clash with time travel and racial unrest […]

The Expanse season 5 gets a trailer and December premiere date

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The fifth season of The Expanse has a premiere date along with a newly released trailer from New York Comic Con. Watch the trailer below… Season 5 of the sci-fi series will premiere on December 16th on Amazon Prime. The season consists of 10 episodes and, unlike the fourth season, will have the first three episodes […]

Showtime cancels On Becoming A God In Central Florida

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A few days after Netflix announced the global health crisis forced it to cancel GLOW, Showtime has followed suit with one of its own series as Deadline has revealed that On Becoming A God In Central Florida, which had already been renewed for a second season, is now cancelled. The series was to be in […]

Exclusive Interview – Fuse FX’s VFX Supervisor Wayne England talks Amazon’s Utopia

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In a career which spans over two decades, Fuse FX’s VFX Supervisor Wayne England has worked on projects as diverse as Castle Rock, Watchmen and the forthcoming Loki. Recently he took time out to talk to Martin Carr about his involvement with Amazon’s Utopia. Having worked on both Watchmen and now Utopia, what is it […]

The Haunting of Hill House star Oliver Jackson-Cohen would love to play Moon Knight for Marvel

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While we know a Moon Knight TV show is currently planned at Marvel, the studio is still yet to announce who will be taking on the titular role for the project. However, actor Oliver Jackson-Cohen, who is perhaps best known for his roles in The Haunting of Hill House and The Invisible Man, has thrown his name into […]

Disney+ Review – The Right Stuff

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Martin Carr reviews The Right Stuff… Philip Kaufman’s adaptation of the Tom Wolfe novel is recognised as a classic. Broad, bold and epic in scale The Right Stuff which starred a young Dennis Quaid and Jeff Goldblum, and character actors of merit still holds up. Burnished earth, heat haze horizons and containing more sound barrier […]

Snowpiercer season 2 images feature Sean Bean, Daveed Diggs and Jennifer Connelly

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Following the season one finale of Snowpiercer, TNT gave us our first look at Sean Bean’s Mr. Wilford in a teaser promo, and now we have three promo images from the second season of the post-apocalyptic sci-fi series featuring the mysterious engineer of the show’s titular train along with Andre Layton (Daveed Diggs) and Melanie […]

Kate Mulgrew returning as Captain Janeway in Star Trek: Prodigy

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Another familiar captain of the Star Trek franchise will be making their return as Nickelodeon and CBS announced during the Star Trek virtual panel at the New York Comic-Con that Kate Mulgrew will be returning as Captain Kathryn Janeway in the upcoming animated series Star Trek: Prodigy. You can watch the announcement below… “I have invested every scintilla of […]