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 […]
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A civil war is brewing for the Iron Throne in House of the Dragon teaser
The Iron Throne, before its destruction in the Game of Thrones series finale. [credit: YouTube/HBO Max ] HBO has released the first teaser for House of the Dragon, giving us our first real look at this spinoff prequel series to Game of Thrones. Set 200 years before the events of its predecessor, the series will chronicle the […]
Review: More remix than adaptation, Foundation is top-notch storytelling
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. […]
How 13 Reasons Why sparked years of suicide-contagion research
Enlarge / Back in 2017, the first season of the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why sparked controversy about suicide contagion. Four years later, a new UCLA study offers guidance for Hollywood on how to best handle such topics going forward. (credit: Netflix) When 13 Reasons Why debuted on Netflix on March 31, 2017, it was […]
Jeremy Renner passes down his bow in fun, holiday-themed trailer for Hawkeye
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 […]
Star Trek Day celebrates 55 years with Picard, Prodigy trailers, and more
Paramount+ celebrated 55 years of Trek on Star Trek Day 2021, a live-streamed event held at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, California, on September 8, 2021. It’s been 55 years since the television debut of Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS), and the franchise continues to expand its reach in film and television, […]
The Wheel of Time teaser is here, and it looks and feels exactly right
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. […]
Michelle Gomez is a time-traveling Madame Rouge in Doom Patrol S3 trailer
The Doom Patrol is at a difficult crossroads [credit: YouTube/HBO Max ] Michelle Gomez is always a welcome addition to any series, whether playing the Master on Doctor Who or Madame Satan on the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. So we were thrilled to learn she was joining the cast for the upcoming third season of […]
Stunning official trailer for Foundation whets the appetite for more
The Apple TV+ series is an adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series of novels. [credit: YouTube/Apple TV+ ] A mathematical genius predicts the imminent collapse of a galactic empire, and he and his protege set plans in motion to preserve the foundational knowledge of their civilization in Foundation, Apple TV+’s adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s hugely […]
We have our first look at images from Amazon’s new Wheel of Time series
Enlarge / The hotly anticipated Wheel of Time series is expected to debut in November 2021 on Amazon Prime. (credit: Amazon Prime) So far, we’ve only seen a few tantalizing video teasers (which contain only split seconds of actual footage) and some poster art for The Wheel of Time, Amazon’s long-awaited TV adaptation of the […]