This won’t come as too much of a surprise given that NBC pulled the show from the air last month with three episodes still to go, but it has now officially been announced that the DC workplace comedy Powerless has been cancelled after a single season. Powerless was developed by Ben Queen (A to Z) […]
Doctor Who Series 10 Episode 5 Review – ‘Oxygen’
Villordsutch reviews Doctor Who Series 10 Episode 5: Oxygen… Directed by: Charles Palmer Written by: Jamie Mathieson Doctor – “Oh look Bill it’s Nardole! What a lovely surprise! I thought I sent you to Birmingham for a packet of crisps!?” Nardole – “Yes I saw through your cunning ruse” Doctor – “Yes well if you will go thinking for yourself.” […]
SyFy adapting George R.R. Martin novella Nightflyers
More of George R.R. Martin’s work will be coming to television, but this time its not connected to the A Song of Ice and Fire saga or the potential four spin-offs of Game of Thrones as SyFy has announced that it will develop Martin’s novella Nightflyers with Jacob’s Ladder‘s Jeff Buhler writing and executive producing the series. Written in 1980, Nightflyers is set […]
Christina Hendricks, Bailee Madison and Lewis Pullman cast in The Strangers 2
Some movement has finally come about for the long-discussed The Strangers 2, the sequel to the hit 2008 horror. Mad Men‘s Christina Hendricks has been cast in the film alongside Once Upon A Time’s Bailee Madison and Battle of the Sexes‘ Lewis Pullman. Production on the film is said to start at the end of the month in Los […]
American Gods renewed for second season by Starz
Its only been on the air for two weeks, but it seems that has been enough Starz long to decide on the future of American Gods as the network has renewed the series for a second season which will air next year. “Bryan Fuller, Michael Green and Neil Gaiman have evolved the art form of television narratively, […]
Chicago Critics Film Festival 2017 – Take Me (2017)
Take Me, 2017. Directed by Pat Healy. Starring Taylor Schilling, Pat Healy, Alycia Delmore, and Jim O’Heir. SYNOPSIS: Ray is a fledgling entrepreneur who specializes in high-end simulated abductions. He jumps at the chance when a mysterious client contracts him for a weekend kidnapping with a handsome payday at the end. But the job isn’t […]
Comic Book Review – The X-Files #13
Tony Black reviews The X-Files #13… “Skinner,” Part 2 (of 2): Assistant Director Walter Skinner finally gets the spotlight! When a face from the past resurfaces, Skinner must confront painful memories of the Vietnam War in his effort to keep a dark secret from being exposed. The second part of ‘Skinner’, this two-part exploration of […]
Tim Blake Nelson headlining The True Don Quixote
Variety is reporting that production has got underway on The True Don Quixote, a modern-day version of Miguel de Carvantes classic novel, with Chris Poche (Over the Hedge) directing a cast that includes Tim Blake Nelson (Fantastic Four) as Don Quixote and Jacob Batalon (Spider-Man: Homecoming) as Sancho Panza. According to the site, the story […]
Amazon greenlights neo-Victorian fantasy noir Carnival Row
Amid a raft of cancellations across the various US TV networks, streaming service Amazon has announced that it has given an eight-episode series order to Carnival Row, a fantasy drama from Rene Echevarria (Star Trek), Travis Beacham (Pacific Rim) and director-producer Paul McGuigan (Victor Frankenstein). The one hour drama series is described as a “fantasy-noir” […]
Netflix commissions French sci-fi series Osmosis
Netflix has commissioned a French sci-fi series entitled Osmosis for its streaming platform. Osmosis will serve as the second French language series that Netflix has given the go ahead to, and will be developed as an eight part drama. The show will tell the story of a near future Paris where a new dating app […]
