Month: November 2022

Warning: contains spoilers for all episodes mentioned. In some respects Doctor Who in the 1960s had an advantage over the rest of the show: it was brand new, it built in the loss of the lead actors into the format, and it was largely free of mythology weighing it down. Indeed, with the reveal of
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Warner Bros. Discovery has a new strategy: focus on franchises and intellectual property (IP). We admit that hearing that vision said aloud by Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav, who spoke yesterday to shareholders during a Q3 earnings call, reads a bit like an Onion headline. What have Hollywood studios, including Warners, been doing over
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After a long four-year wait, God of War: Ragnarok is finally upon us. Its predecessor, Santa Monica Studio’s God of War, is considered one of the greatest games of its generation, reimagining the original God of War formula and taking the series’ cinematics and storytelling to new heights. But the one thing that all GoW
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Author: M.D. Lachlan Publisher: Gollancz Price: £18.99 A first-contact story with more than just a cold war twist, Celestial is the latest novel from author M.D. Lachlan (the SFF pseudonym of Mark Barrowcliffe), and begins when a team at NASA become aware of a mysterious hatch covered in strangely familiar symbols on the surface of
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This article contains spoilers for Westworld season 4. There’s “writing yourself into a corner” and then there’s “writing yourself into a scenario where all your characters enter into a mystical robot heaven corner.” Should it have received a fifth and final season, that was the situation that HBO’s Westworld would have had to stare down.
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From Spanish director, Juan Jesús García Galocha comes a brand new animated adventure feature film Mummies which follows a trio of Egyptian mummies exploring the living world. Check out the trailer… <span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”>&#65279;</span> Mummies follows the fun adventures of three Egyptian mummies who live in an
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Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman’s afro-futurist sci-fi punk musical, Neptune Frost, is heading to select cinemas on 4 November and you can check out the trailer here… <span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”>&#65279;</span> Neptune Frost takes place in the hilltops of Burundi, where a group of escaped coltan miners camp in
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The Great British Bake Off is such a cultural phenomenon that it got its own official musical this year, with a West End run in early 2023, but is 2022 the year the show finally crumbles?  There’s no denying this multiple-BAFTA-winning baking show is a top-tier hit: since its modest launch in 2010, it’s earned
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It has been announced that the highly anticipated series, The Last of Us, the series based on the hugely popular videogames, will air exclusively on Sky Atlantic and NOW on 16 January. Not only that, but the series official key art has also been revealed (above). <span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:
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This post contains spoilers for Loki and other MCU shows Of all the Disney+ shows so far, few have been as impactful as the ending of Loki. While WandaVision set up Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier introduced the new Captain America, and Hawkeye brought back the Kingpin,
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We’ve been waiting for (literally) years, but we’ll soon be casting our beady eyes over the sequel to James Cameron’s 2009 sci-fi epic Avatar with Avatar: The Way of Water and we can’t wait! But first, check out the brand new poster (above) for the movie and a new trailer below… <span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block;
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After being rescued by Netflix, the first part of Manifest’s fourth and final season is set to premiere on the streaming service this month. Originally airing on NBC for three seasons before being canceled by the network in 2021, Manifest chronicles the lives of airplane passengers whose flight mysteriously vanished into thin air. Flight 828
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Activision Blizzard is currently under investigation following accusations of harassment, discrimination, and fostering a hostile work environment. You can read more about the investigation here. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2‘s first sales figures are rolling in, and the early numbers are astonishing. In fact, publisher Activision Blizzard reports that Modern Warfare 2 is the fastest-selling
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When I started writing The Hanged God trilogy, an epic fantasy about Vikings and Norse gods, there were few depictions of Vikings in modern media. Now it seems that Vikings are everywhere. From the critically acclaimed “The Northman” to the iconic tv show “Vikings” and the hilarious Norwegian show “Norsemen”. Below are five films that
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Italy has a Day of the Dead similar to our Halloween and All Saint’s Day, however, the people of Italy get bank holidays too, so the Monday and Tuesday of Lucca Comics & Games 2022 continued with its wonderful mayhem and multitudes of fans from every niche of pop culture and sub genre therein entered
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Activision Blizzard is currently under investigation following accusations of harassment, discrimination, and fostering a hostile work environment. You can read more about the investigation here. Overwatch 2 players were stunned to boot up the team shooter and see that Mei had been removed from the game. At first, some players suspected that she was impacted by
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The thing about anthology series is that they inevitably invite comparison. Why would you present me with several distinct stories if you didn’t want me to rank them all from worst to best? Though that just might a me thing. In any case, new Netflix horror anthology Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities presents eight
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The first part of Xbox Game Pass’ November 2022 update has finally been revealed, and it includes one of 2022’s most underrated (and best) games. Yes, I’m talking about Vampire Survivors. Though technically released via Steam Early Access in 2021, Vampire Survivors gained…err…steam in 2022 thanks to the title’s word-of-mouth buzz and numerous updates. Actually,
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Inside Man is a good pun and a bad story. The four-part black comedy drama is about Jefferson Grieff (Stanley Tucci), a criminologist on death row in Texas who, for reasons unexplained, is allowed to run a rudimentary detective agency while awaiting execution. That makes Grieff an inside man both in the prison sense, and in
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