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HBO Max developing Lumberjanes animated series with Noelle Stevenson

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HBO Max has come out victorious in a hotly-contested bidding war for the rights to Boom! Studios’ Eisner Award-winning Lumberjanes comic book series, with the streaming tapped She-Ra and the Princesses of Power creator Noelle Stevenson to develop an animated series beginning with an hourlong special. Co-created by Noelle Stevenson, Shannon Watters, Grace Ellis, and […]

Hot Toys’ Star Wars: The Clone Wars Coruscant Guard collectible figure revealed

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Following hot on the heels of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars figure reveals for Anakin Skywalker, Ahsoka Tano, a 501st Clone Trooper, and Darth Maul, Sideshow has now unveiled official promotional images for Hot Toys’ 1:6 scale Coruscant Guard figure. The collectible is available to pre-order now, priced at $220; check it out here… […]

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 […]