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Sky’s excellent Save Me is Lennie James' first TV writing project for almost two decades. Written by and starring Lennie James, its an abduction thriller with a difference. He has good reason to try though. Despite not being part of her life until now, Nelly is Jodys dad. Funny that, says James. All ofStorm Damagestarted with that speech, James tells me. We did lose a kid. Its a message James revisited years later when called upon to writea 2008 piece for The Observerabout knife crime....

Some thoughts on the next shared monster universe, from Godzilla 2 to the inevitable Godzilla vs. Kong. This article contains spoilers forKong: SkullIslandandGodzilla. When the long-awaited reboot ofGodzillaarrived in theaters in May 2014, fans breathed a cautious sigh of relief. Then, of course, it was revealed that Legendary had also nabbed the rights to King Kong. That would no doubt have catastrophic consequences for the seven billion puny humans scurrying around on the surface....

In 20 years, Marvel has risen from bankruptcy to multi-billion-dollar business. For Marvel, its darkest hour came in the winter of 1996. All told, those acquisitions cost Marvel a reported $700 million. Through the early 90s, Marvel was buoyed by the success ofSpider-ManandX-Men,which were selling in huge numbers. Then, just as Gaiman predicted, the bubble burst. Between 1993 and 1996, revenues from comics and trading cards began to collapse. Suddenly, Marvel, which at one point seemed invincible as it grew in size, now looked vulnerable....

What can we expect from The Walking Dead season 9? We delve into new characters, potential new villains, and new conflicts. This article comes fromDen of Geek UK. It contains spoilers for the TV series and comics. After two seasons, the all out war between Negans Sanctuary and Ricks rebel alliance is finally over. Before Rick can do that, he faces dissension in the ranks. Keeping Negan alive and in prison wasnt everybodys idea of a happy ending....

This article (obviously) containsJessica Jonesspoilers. But theres still a chance that otherAliasstories could point the way towardsJessica Jonesseason 3. Ad content continues below And thats part of the charm of theJessica JonesNetflix series, too. So what couldJessica JonesSeason 3 look like? Change of Format? This is, I admit, the least likely scenario. WhileJessica Jonesis perhaps the best of MarvelsNetflixefforts, there are some dangers going forward. For starters, the show already used the characters most compelling story in its first season....

Unlike the sinister undertones of today’s kids' TV, our favourite childhood shows were pure and wonderful. Systems were in place to ensure it. In short,In The Night Gardenis bizarre and terrifying. But then I actually re-watched some of them. I quickly discovered to paraphrase Herman Munster that sometimes dead is better. Certainly my televisual era had been no oasis in the brain-deadening desert. There was horror and betrayal around every corner....

The war is already over as the film opens. Gregory Peck stars as the commander of a US sub which resurfaces after the war and docks in Melbourne. He then closes on a chilling shot of an empty and silent San Francisco harbor. We were all just pawns in a stupid game being played by faceless power-mad zealots. Thank god, then, for the Cuban Missile Crisis in October of 1962....

Earth’s Mightiest Heroes will finally take on Thanos next year in Avengers: Infinity War. Here are the important story lines to remember. This article comes fromDen of Geek UK. This article contains spoilers forThor: Ragnarok, and various MCU movies before it. Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely have written the script, with Joe Russo and Anthony Russo handling the direction. WithInfinity War, they are working with a bigger stable of heroes than ever before....

This article contains spoilers from theWestworldseason 1. But the instrument isnt broken. It simply has decided it doesnt like the player. Yet even in Fords absence, things will not get simpler or more online grid TV-friendly for Charlotte Hale. As previously mentioned, season 2 will be a wholly different beast from the first year. Still, these ideas have remained in the realm of fiction. Consider for instance thatGoogle semi-secretly founded a research-and-development facility entitled Google Xin 2010....

How many of us revisit a film, if it didn’t work for us first time around? This article comes fromDen of Geek UK. A bit of clickbait avoidance. The answer to the question posed in the title is: it clearly depends on the film. But I think theres a bit more to it than that. Lets start, then, with Stephen Fry. He ties it into Guy Pearces character inMemento, thus earning a few extra geek points from the jar....

Without the Generation X TV movie, we might never have gotten the first good X-Men movie. We look at the good and the (mostly) bad. Indeed, the house that Xavier built was where it was at. But where was a weekly data pipe series to find the budget for something like that? Still…the idea of an X-Universe live action TV series held some appeal. Well, a few factors went into this decision....

Its March 1977, and theres a very odd party going on at Paramount. The champagnes flowing, the glasses are clinking, but the atmospheres far from celebratory. The dosage may be increased if the directors in town. Paramount really had no idea what they wanted, Bryant recalled, the frustration clearly still in evidence. It was a miserable experience. On the front was a picture of the Enterprise crew: Spock, Kirk, Bones and so forth....

Deadpool to appear in theX-Forcemovie. Fox was trying to decide whether they going to do theDeadpoolsolo movie or myX-Forcemovie. Fortunately, they picked theDeadpoolsolo movie because its great. That wouldnt have been the case with this earlier version of the project. John Thunderbird Proudstar has since made his live action debut onThe GiftedTV series. We can see Sam Cannonball Guthrie popping off in the background. My guess as to the identity of the woman on the far left is probably Ilyana Magik Rasputin....