Red Stewart reviews the tenth episode of Black Lightning… Since kicking off into overdrive with a committed storyline, Black Lightning has really started to develop its own identity. It first began as a gritty urban crime series with superheroes, much like Arrow and Daredevil, but mid-season it changed into a more mystical program with crazy costumes and people coming back […]
DVD Review – Score: A Film Music Documentary (2016)
Score: A Film Music Documentary, 2016. Directed by Matt Schrader. Featuring Hans Zimmer, Danny Elfman, John Williams, James Cameron, Trent Reznor, Quincy Jones, and Howard Shore. SYNOPSIS: A documentary detailing the role of the film score and the people who create them. Reviewing a documentary can often be a futile exercise, more often than not […]
Playground Entertainment to adapt The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock
Playground Entertainment, the company behind the likes of Wolf Hall, The White Queen and Howards End, has won the film and TV rights to Imogen Hermes Gowar’s historical fantasy novel The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock, Deadline has revealed. The book revolves around Jonah Hancock, “a prosperous merchant and widower, whose Captain returns having sold Hancock’s […]
Adam Sandler may replace Jonah Hill in Uncut Gems
Hot off his casting alongside Jennifer Aniston in Netflix’s Murder Mystery, The Tracking Board is reporting that Adam Sandler is being eyed as a replacement for Jonah Hill in the thriller Uncut Gems. The film is being directed by Joshua and Benny Safdie (Good Time) from a script by the Safdies and Ronald Bronstein, with […]
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 5 Episode 15 Review – ‘Rise and Shine’
Danny Hale reviews the fifteenth episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 5… ‘Rise and Shine’ took us 28 years into General Hale’s past, shedding light on her training and education among HYDRA’s finest while also giving us an early look at some of the big HYDRA names in the MCU. This was a […]
Exclusive Interview with Mr. X, the VFX Company behind The Shape of Water
Mr. X is the visual effects company responsible for the visual storytelling of many films and television series including Vikings, Godless, mother!, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tells No Tale, Crimson Peak, and Molly’s Game. Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water won big at this year’s Academy Awards, including Best Picture. MR. X […]
Ready Player One opens with $181 million worldwide
Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One has enjoyed a healthy debut at the global box office, pulling in $181.3 million worldwide. Domestically, the pop culture sci-fi grossed $53.2 million across the Thursday to Sunday period to take top spot ahead of Tyler Perry’s Acrimony, and pulled in a further $128 million from […]
Naruto director gives an update on the planned live-action movie
If you cast your mind back to 2015, you may recall that Lionsgate announced a live action adaptation of the bestselling manga series Naruto, attaching director Michael Gracey to the project. Gracey has since went on to direct the musical hit The Greatest Showman, and during an interview with Collider, the filmmaker offered a brief […]
Eaglemoss celebrates Batman: The Animated Series with new figurine collection
More than 25 years after its premiere, Batman: The Animated Series remains one of the finest animated shows to grace the small screen, and for their latest Hero Collector range, the folks at Eaglemoss have turned their attention to the classic show, delivering a series of 1/16 scale figures featuring the iconic heroes and villains […]
Comic Book Review – Doomsday Clock #4
Ricky Church reviews Doomsday Clock #4… Its been a long couple of months since Doomsday Clock switched to a bi-monthly schedule, but the latest issue of Geoff Johns and Gary Frank’s series has arrived. While Doomsday Clock #4 didn’t contain a whole lot of action or answers to what’s going on in the DC universe, this issue was a […]
