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March 30, 2019

Amazon starts selling Warner Bros. content again

At the beginning of the year I published a story about Amazon removing Warner Bros. content from its video store. Movies and television shows were pulled from the service without warning, leaving customers scratching their heads in confusion as to where they had gone. Well, today I have good news. Amazon has started selling Warner…

March 30, 2019

Watch: Alien: Containment short film

To celebrate 40 years of Alien, 20th Century Fox in partnership with Tongal, is releasing a series of fan-made shorts set within the Alien universe. A new short will appear on IGN’s YouTube channel each week in the run up to Alien Day (April 26th). The first of these shorts is Alien: Containment. The nine-minute…

March 29, 2019

Love, Simon wins ‘Outstanding Film’ award

Love, Simon (one of my favourite movies of 2018) received the Outstanding Film award at this year’s GLAAD Media Awards. The GLAAD Media Awards recognise and honour various facets of the media for their representations of the LGBTQ community. Love, Simon – which stars Nick Robinson – beat out competition from the likes of Blockers,…

March 29, 2019

Review: Dumbo (2019)

Tonight I saw Disney’s new Dumbo movie – a live-action remake of the 1941 animated classic. The film – directed by Tim Burton – stars Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Colin Farrell and Eva Green tells the story of Jumbo (aka Dumbo) and his tear-inducing time spent as a circus attraction. If you’ve watched the original…

March 28, 2019

Morbius completes filming in Manchester

As discussed on Sunday and on Monday, Sony Pictures’ Spider-Man spin-off movie, Morbius has been in town this week. Manchester’s Northern Quarter was transformed into Manhattan, for a few scenes that are expected to appear in the finished movie. Shooting has now wrapped in the city and while I didn’t get to see much (if…

March 26, 2019

Yeah, about The New Mutants movie…

Remember the X-Men spin-off movie, The New Mutants? Remember how it was filmed in 2017, a trailer was released in 2018, then the movie’s release date was pushed back TWICE to late 2019, to allow time for reshoots to take place? Yeah… …those reshoots STILL haven’t taken place. In a recent interview with Rolling Stone,…

March 26, 2019

Marvel has released a whopping 32 character posters for Endgame

To kick-start the one month countdown until the release of Avengers: Endgame – arguably the biggest movie of all time – Marvel Studios has dropped 32 character posters! The first eight are all of fallen Avengers/Guardians/Asgardians who ‘died’ during the events of Avengers: Infinity War. This includes Drax, Mantis, Bucky, Falcon, The Wasp, Groot, Shuri…

March 25, 2019

More information about Morbius as filming continues in Manchester

Yesterday I shared a few images of props that were being set up in Manchester, for use in the new Spider-Man spin-off movie, Morbius. Today I’ve snapped a couple more images (nothing too exciting), but I do have a few more details about the movie. Before I get to the details, here are a couple…

March 24, 2019

A Marvel movie is being shot in Manchester – can you guess what it is?

There’s a new movie being shot in Manchester right now. It’s Morbius! Stevenson Square is currently being transformed to take on the appearance of an American city (presumably New York), for the new Spider-Man spin-off film. There’s no official signage to say exactly what the movie is, so I asked around to find out a…

March 23, 2019

A Saturday afternoon arcade gaming at NQ64 Manchester

As previously noted on this very blog, I like nothing more on a Saturday than to geek out. Weekdays are far too hectic and filled with non-geek based activities, so when the weekend comes around I like to indulge in some fun, be it a comic con or a simple toy hunt around the city.…