Jodie Whittaker returns for one last stint as our favorite time lord in Doctor Who: Flux. We got the briefest of teasers for the upcoming 13th season (or series) of Doctor Who during San Diego Comic-Con in July, hinting at the return of some of the show’s most classic villains. Now we finally have the […]
Enlarge / Philippe Tlokinski stars as Stanislaw Ulam in the new film Adventures of a Mathematician . (credit: Samuel Goldwyn Films) On November 1, 1952, the US detonated the first thermonuclear weapon , dubbed “Ivy Mike , ” off the Enewetak Atoll in what is now the Marshall Islands. Most of us consider the late physicist […]
Sonequa Martin-Green is back as Michael Burnham, now captain of Discovery [credit: YouTube/Paramount+ ] We didn’t get a new trailer for the fourth season of Star Trek: Discovery during the Star Trek Day festivities last month, although we did get a premiere date: November 18, 2021. But we didn’t have that long to wait. The […]
Back to a familiar place… and time. [credit: YouTube/Sony Pictures ] When the first Resident Evil game debuted in 1998, it was an immediate commercial and critical success, spawning several sequel games, comics, novels, and a very lucrative film franchise directed by Paul W.S. Anderson and starring Milla Jovovich. But those films were only loosely […]
Jared Harris stars as visionary mathematician Hari Seldon. [credit: Apple TV+ ] Isaac Asimov’s hugely influential Basis series of science fiction novels is notoriously difficult to adapt to the screen. The author himself admitted that he wrote strictly for the printed page, and he always refused invitations to adapt his work for film or TV. […]
A catastrophic solar “event” has wiped out most of humanity. [credit: YouTube/Apple TV+ ] Apple TV+ has dropped the official trailer for Finch , its forthcoming sci-fi film starring Tom Hanks as a robotics engineer who survives an apocalyptic solar flare, then goes on a trek to mountain safety with his trusty dog and robot […]
Jeremy Renner reprises his role as Clint Barton in Hawkeye . [credit: YouTube/Marvel Studios ] I’ll admit, I wasn’t exactly excited about Marvel’s upcoming Hawkeye spinoff series on Disney+. It seemed like an odd choice, given the character’s relatively minor role in the various Avengers films. But the studio dropped the official trailer this morning, and […]
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II stars as Anthony McCoy, a visual artist who moves into the gentrified Cabrini-Green neighborhood in Chicago. [credit: YouTube/Universal Pictures ] With thought-provoking films like Get Out and Us, writer/director Jordan Peele has already cemented his status as a master of smart, socially relevant modern horror. His influence is even broader as a producer, […]
Rosamund Pike stars as Moiraine, a member of a powerful, all-woman organization called the Aes Sedai. [credit: YouTube/Amazon Prime ] It’s been just a few weeks since we got our first look at still images from Amazon’s forthcoming The Wheel of Time series, adapted from the late Robert Jordan ‘s bestselling 14-book series of epic fantasy novels. […]
Daniel Craig is back for one last stint as James Bond/007. [credit: YouTube/MGM ] One of the first major films to be postponed due to the pandemic was No Time to Die, Daniel Craig’s final outing as 007. Originally slated for an April 2020 release, the film was first postponed until November 2020 and then […]