With Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. wrapping up its seven-season run this past week with its series finale, showrunner and co-creator Jed Whedon has been giving fans some insight into nixed story ideas from the Avengers spinoff, including a planned appearance from the Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing, a.k.a. the fan favourite villain M.O.D.O.K.! “We […]
Vampirella unleashing standalone story for Halloween
Dynamite Entertainment has announced that it is set to mark All Hallow’s Eve this October with a standalone Vampirella story from writer Christopher Priest which serves as a jumping on point for new readers following the writer’s ‘Seduction of the Innocent’ cycle in the pages of Vampirella #0-14. In the tale, the space-vampire “superhero” Vampirella […]
Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead to undergo reshoots, Tig Notaro replacing Chris D’Elia in cast
Zack Snyder’s upcoming zombie action thriller Army of the Dead is set to undergo reshoots, with THR reporting that Tig Notaro (Star Trek: Discovery, Lucy in the Sky) is set to replace Chris D’Elia (You) in the Netflix movie following the recent allegations of sexual harassment and grooming made against the latter. Army of the […]
Comic Book Preview – Zombie Tramp #72
Zombie Tramp #72 arrives in comic book shops this week, and we’ve got the official preview of the issue for you here; check it out… The mind-bending “69 Ways To Die” story arc reaches its conclusion as Angel Lynch is forced to either accept the mantle of the Zombie Tramp and its lineage, or fall […]
Crawl star Kaya Scodelario reportedly joins Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings
With Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings resuming production in New Zealand following the global shutdown of the film & TV industries, it seems we may have word on a new casting addition for the hotly-anticipated adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth world. According to a report from fan site The One Ring, The Maze Runner […]
Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales will feature a full arc for the young webslinger
During Sony’s Future of Gaming show back in June, it was announced that Spider-Man: Miles Morales will be coming to PlayStation 5 later this year. A follow-up to Insomniac’s hit Marvel’s Spider-Man game, Miles Morales isn’t a full sequel to the acclaimed 2018 game, but rather a standalone title/expansion similar to Uncharted: Lost Legacy and […]
Comic Book Preview – Justice League #51
Ahead of its release this Tuesday, we’ve got the official preview for Justice League #51 which you can find here courtesy of DC Comics… At the mercy of the Black Mercy! As they return from their adventure on the planet Trotha, the Justice League crashes on the homeworld of the Black Mercy! There, they fall […]
Cinema’s Groundbreakers – Jackie Chan’s Police Story
Continuing a series on groundbreaking cinema, Tom Jolliffe takes a look at Jackie Chan’s iconic Police Story… The Criterion Collection. It’s usually a selection of key films across classic era cinema, arthouse, indie and world cinema. Some might call the selections somewhat high brow. It’s unlikely for example, that you’d see The Avengers as part […]
Movie Review – Sputnik (2020)
Sputnik, 2020 Directed by Egor Abramenko Starring Oksana Akinshina, Pyotr Fyodorov, Fyodor Bondarchuk, Anton Vasilyev, and Pavel Ustinov SYNOPSIS: The lone survivor of an enigmatic spaceship incident hasn’t returned back home alone-hiding inside his body is a dangerous creature. This is not the exact line, but early on during Sputnik (a moderately sized Russian film […]
Pokemon Journeys to premiere in the UK this September
Pokémon Journeys – the twenty-third season of the long-running and hugely successful Pokemon anime series – is set to premiere in the UK this September exclusively on POP. Here’s the official synopsis from the network: Pokémon Trainer Ash Ketchum has a new plan: see the world! But first, he and his partner Pikachu are headed to […]
