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April 19, 2019

Revisiting She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: Season One

On Friday 26th April, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power heads back to Netflix for a second season. Ahead of the show’s return, I decided to revisit Season One to remind myself what has come before. It took me four days to work my way back through the season (hey, I’m a busy person). During…

April 19, 2019

The Gifted has been cancelled

In news that will come as no surprise, FOX has officially cancelled X-Men spin-off series, The Gifted. According to Variety, the series will not return for a third season. I’d like to say I’m sad and/or shocked about this news… but that would be a lie. While the first season of The Gifted demonstrated a…

April 18, 2019

The creepiest characters from What’s Up Doc?

As I’ve previously mentioned on this blog, I’m currently working my way through old episodes of Saturday morning kids TV show, What’s Up Doc?. For a couple of years during the early ’90s, the series was the No.1 Saturday morning show, and I’m having a great deal of fun revisiting episodes via YouTube. If you…

April 16, 2019

Thanos asks for your silence… again

You may recall, last year during the release of Avengers: Infinity War, Marvel Studios, The Russo Bros., and Thanos asked a little favour of the world. That favour was to hold off from spoiling the plot of the movie. Rather surprisingly, most people entered into this gentleman’s agreement and refrained from posting spoilers about the…

April 15, 2019

What you need to know from The Mandalorian panel

Yesterday, The Mandalorian panel took place at Star Wars Celebration 2019. Over the course of an hour, the show’s creative team, Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni, along with cast members Pedro Pascal, Carl Weathers and Gina Carano, talked a little about the new series. Footage of The Mandalorian was shown during the panel… but alas, it was…

April 14, 2019

I watched all the MCU movies before Endgame

A while back I planned to work my way through all of the entries in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in preparation for Avengers: Endgame (in UK cinemas April 25th). Despite having plenty of time for a leisurely re-watch… …it simply never happened. So, with less than a month to go until Endgame opens in cinemas, I decided…

April 13, 2019

The Burton/Schumacher Batman movies are returning to UK cinemas

To mark the 80th anniversary of the Caped Crusader, the ’80s/’90s series of live-action Batman films are returning to cinemas. The four movies – known as the Batman Anthology – will be screened at specially selected Vue cinemas on Sunday 19th May. Batman – The Anthology Marathon will include Tim Burton’s Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992), as…

April 12, 2019

Love, Simon TV series coming from Disney

A Love, Simon spin-off television series is being developed for Disney’s new streaming service, Disney+. The series will be set within the Love, Simon world and will be based around the book Leah on the Offbeat, by Becky Albertalli – the sequel to Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, the book on which Love, Simon was based. According to…

April 12, 2019

Review: Hellboy 2019

If you’re a fan of the Hellboy movies or good cinema, I have bad news for you, the new Hellboy movie has opened and it’s shit. Really shit. I contemplated sugar coating the news, to ease you into this one, but as I’ve just spent the past two hours sat in the cinema watching this…

April 12, 2019

Watch: Star Wars Episode 9 trailer

The first official trailer for Star Wars Episode IX has arrived. Directed by J. J. Abrams Episode IX stars Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Joonas Suotamo, Billie Lourd, Richard E. Grant, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher. Fisher will appear via previously unused material from The Force Awakens…