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Marvel sets its cast for New Warriors TV series

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Back in April it was announced that Freeform had placed a straight-to-series order for the Marvel series New Warriors, a half-hour comedy series set to join Cloak & Dagger on the network in 2018, and now THR has revealed details of the cast for this latest instalment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Set to feature in the […]

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Season 2 Episode 15 Review – “The Fellowship of the Spear”

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Jessie Robertson reviews the fifteenth episode of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow… So, Mick’s supposed to be Boromir? There seemed to be a lot to unpack as we head toward the end of this season’s finale; in the large scope, the Legends retrieved the rest of the Spear of Destiny from Thawne right off the top […]

Losing A Grip On Greatness: Dropping the Ball with Logan

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Tom Jolliffe on Logan’s final third and losing a grip on greatness. Warning. Major spoilers follow… So there you are. You’re bowling a near perfect game. You’ve had the odd spare here and there but largely you’ve had strikes. Then you hit a gutter ball and your game starts falling apart. Sometimes it can end […]

Sebastian Stan sees himself as the Jon Snow of Avengers: Infinity War

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By all accounts, Avengers: Infinity War is shaping up to be a mega movie, featuring multiple characters from across the entire spectrum of the MCU, and culminating in a battle for the ages. The stakes seem to be raised considerably this time around and from what we hear, it seems like it’s going to be bigger and […]

Is the Multiverse the ultimate solution to narrative issues?

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George Chrysostomou on the multiverse… The DC TV shows that can be found on The CW are unique for one very specific reason. Although it is rare for TV shows to crossover, there is an element to these superhero stories that is heavily relied upon to move the narrative forward, offering solutions to new characters, […]

Marvel’s Black Panther is outperforming Captain America: Civil War at the advance box office

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Well, it looks like Marvel Studios has another blockbuster hit on its hands this February, with Deadline revealing that the Chadwick Boseman-headlined Black Panther is outperforming Captain America: Civil War in presales at Fandango after tickets went up for sale on Monday night. In fact, it performed better than any other MCU movie in its […]

Kong: Skull Island tracking $135 million global opening

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Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures unleashes the Eighth Wonder of the World this week as Kong: Skull Island rolls out in 65 markets, and Deadline is reporting that the second instalment of the MonsterVerse shared universe is tracking a global opening of between $110 and $135 million. Domestically, projections for Skull Island place in the the […]

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Season 2 Episode 10 Review – ‘Legion of Doom’

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Jessie Robertson reviews the tenth episode of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, ‘Legion of Doom’… Please Legends….Please give us the creepy octopus base hidden in the swamp…..I’ve never wanted anything more… This looked like it was going to be a very bad episode; the crew of the ship literally had nothing to do, no time to travel […]

Some Stranger Things season 2 material being held back for season 3

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With Stranger Things set to return to Netflix for its second season this October, executive producer and director Shawn Levy has been chatting to Collider about the acclaimed supernatural drama series, revealing that creators The Duffer Brothers have had so many ideas for the story that some material is being held back for season three. […]