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April 2, 2019

I’ve booked tickets to more conventions – and I’m excited

My plan for this year is to do as many fun things as possible, including attending as many conventions as I can. Having already attended Comic Con Liverpool I’m sticking to my plan by attending two more cons – Comic Con Manchester and PLAY Expo. PLAY Expo takes place on May 4th at Manchester Central.…

April 2, 2019

Avengers: Endgame tickets have gone on sale – websites have crashed

Tickets to see Avengers: Endgame went on sale today – did you get some? Well, if you did then you’ll know just how busy it was. Oh, I haven’t purchased my tickets yet, but I did spend an afternoon with someone who was trying to get his tickets. It took him a long time. Both…

March 30, 2019

Watch: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power Season Two trailer

DreamWorksTV has released the first official trailer for the second season of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. The trailer (which you can watch below) has arrived with the following blurb: “Adora is finally beginning to accept her destiny as the legendary warrior princess, She-Ra, and leader of the Princess Rebellion. Still, there is much…

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…