CBS All Access has released a teaser trailer for its limited series The Stand, which offers a first look at footage from the small screen adaptation of Stephen King’s 1978 post-apocalyptic epic; watch it here… SEE ALSO: First images from Stephen King adaptation The Stand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiJ6JG8FwYI Written by Josh Boone and Ben Cavell, The Stand is […]
X-Men spinoff The New Mutants opens with $7 million at the U.S. box office
It’s not often that Hollywood finds cause to celebrate a $7 million opening topping the U.S. box office, but in these crazy times that’s the case this past weekend with the long-delayed X-Men spinoff The New Mutants. The long-delayed Fox superhero movie, which was originally slated to open back in 2018, grossed $7 million across […]
Arrow Video FrightFest 2020 Review – Aquaslash
Aquaslash, 2019. Co-written and directed by Renaud Gauthier. Starring Nicolas Fontaine, Brittany Drisdelle, Madelline Harvey, Paul Zinno, Nick Walker, and Chip Chuipka. SYNOPSIS: Terror awaits a group of high school graduates when a psychopath uses the unstoppable speed and turns of a water slide to his murderous advantage. A movie called Aquaslash invites certain expectations, primarily […]
Comic Book Preview – Transformers ’84: Secrets & Lies #3
IDW Publishing releases Transformers ’84: Secrets & Lies #3 this Wednesday, and you can check out a preview of the issue right here… With Megatron, Shockwave, and the Decepticon brass gone, the power vacuum on Cybertron leads many Decepticon commanders to stake their claims on the world. And with the Decepticons divided, which Autobots will […]
Movie Review – Critical Thinking (2020)
Critical Thinking, 2020. Directed by John Leguizamo. Starring John Leguizamo, Rachel Bay Jones, Michael Kenneth Williams, Corwin C. Tuggles, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Angel Bismark Curiel, Will Hochman, Jeffry Batista, Zora Casebere, Ramses Jimenez, Sydney Arroyo, Brandon Somers, and Isaac Beverly. SYNOPSIS: The true story of the Miami Jackson High School chess team which was the […]
Arrow Video Frightfest 2020 Review – Two Heads Creek
Two Heads Creek, 2019. Directed by Jesse O’Brien. Starring Kerry Armstrong, Kathryn Wilder, Gary Sweet, and Stephen Hunter. SYNOPSIS: A timid butcher and his drama queen twin sister quit the hostile confines of post-Brexit Britain and adventure to Australia in search of their birth mother, but the seemingly tolerant townsfolk are hiding a dark, meaty […]
Lovecraft Country Season 1 Episode 3 Review – ‘Holy Ghost’
Martin Carr reviews the third episode of Lovecraft Country… If you need entertainment with a social conscience look no further than Lovecraft Country. Provocative, thought provoking and driven by powerful sensibilities we are beyond the point where this is anything other than exceptional. What they are doing week after week is taking conventional ingredients and […]
Comic Book Preview – Hellblazer: Rise and Fall #1
This Tuesday sees the launch of the new DC Black Label series Hellblazer: Rise and Fall, and we have the official preview of the first issue for you here; take a look… A billionaire falls out of the sky and is gruesomely skewered on a church spire. Bizarrely, Angel Wings are attached to his back. […]
Movie Review – I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
I’m Thinking of Ending Things, 2020. Directed by Charlie Kaufman. Starring Jessie Buckley, Jesse Plemons, Toni Collette, David Thewlis, Colby Minifie, Ashlyn Alessi, Abby Quinn, Hadley Robinson, Dj Nino Carta, Teddy Coluca, Jason Ralph, and Guy Boyd. SYNOPSIS: A young woman (Jessie Buckley) is thinking of ending things on the way to meet her boyfriend’s […]
Marvel heroes team with Fortnite characters on crossover variant covers
To coincide with the upcoming Nexus War event in Fortnite Chapter 2 – Season 4 – which will feature a number of Marvel heroes crossing over with the amazing world of the Fortnite via character skins and weapons – Marvel has announced a series of crossover variant covers set to arrive this September and October […]