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February 28, 2018

Toys R Us UK enters administration

Sad, yet somewhat expected news today – The UK arm of Toys R Us has gone into administration. The toy retailer has experienced troubling times in recent months – both in the UK and the US – with stores closing down as a result of financial problems. According to the BBC, administrators have now been…

February 27, 2018

Disney is reviving The Rocketeer… but not as a movie

The Rocketeer is to be revived – but not necessarily in the way you might expect. According to IGN, Disney Junior is to revive The Rocketeer as a new animated series, aimed at viewers aged between two and seven. The series will be inspired by the original comics and the 1991 movie of the same…

February 26, 2018

BOOM! Studios releases Jim Henson’s Labyrinth

This week BOOM! Studios releases the first in a 12-part series of comics focusing on ’80s classic, Labyrinth (1984). The comic – appropriately titled Jim Henson’s Labyrinth – goes on sale from Wednesday 28th March and promises to provide new details on the Goblin King. Simon Spurrier is the writer of Jim Henson’s Labyrinth, while…

February 25, 2018

DC Exhibition: Dawn of Super Heroes opens in London

A new exhibition celebrating the history of DC Comics on the big (and small) screen has opened in the UK. DC Exhibition: Dawn of Super Heroes takes a look at DC’s on-screen exploits, with a collection of costumes from some of the biggest comic book movies of all-time. The event – which takes place at…

February 25, 2018

The Toys That Made Us Season 1.2: What to expect

Just before Christmas, the first four episodes of Netflix docu-show, The Toys That Made Us arrived on the streaming service. Forming the first half of the show’s debut season, the episodes offered an insight into some of the most successful toy lines of all-time including Star Wars, Barbie, Masters of the Universe and G.I. Joe.…

February 25, 2018

Goosebumps 2 adds cast members

Goosebumps 2 has added four new cast members. According to Variety, Sony Pictures has signed four young actors to be the stars of the movie: Madison Iseman, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Ben O’Brien and Caleel Harris. Horror fans will know Taylor from his role of Ben in ‘It’ (2017), while Iseman most recently appeared in Jumanji: Welcome…

February 23, 2018

Annihilation movie review round-up

Based on Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy of books, Annihilation is a brand new sci-fi movie from director Alex Garland. The movie stars Natalie Portman and Jennifer Jason Leigh and is currently on general release in US cinemas. If you live in the UK – or pretty much anywhere else in the world that has Netflix and isn’t the US…

February 22, 2018

Joss Whedon abandons Batgirl

Things continue to go south for the DCEU – as Joss Whedon has quit Batgirl. The writer/director, who has been attached to Warner Bros’. Batgirl movie since early last year, has walked away from the project after admitting he simply “didn’t have a story.” Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Whedon said: “Batgirl is such an exciting…

February 22, 2018

Are the Fantastic Four returning in May?

Anyone who has been reading Marvel Two-in-One over the past three months will know, the comic has dropped hints that the Fantastic Four – the current black sheep of the Marvel Universe – could be returning to the pages of Marvel in the not-too distant future. But could that not-too distant future actually be May…

February 21, 2018

And the highest rated MCU movie is…

Yep, you guessed it the highest rated movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (according to Rotten Tomatoes) is Black Panther. A few days ago, Rotten Tomatoes ranked all 18 Marvel Cinematic Universe movies in order of their Tomatometer rating. Black Panther – the most recent entry in the series – took the top spot with…