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Doctor Who: Bill, Pearl Mackie and Peter Capaldi
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Mid-way through the F.A. Cup semi-final, a new Doctor Who companion was announced. A few thoughts...
So, all in all, I feel the second half was much more exciting than the first. Stones started to push forward from the back for Everton and Delofeu's introduction meant a better final ball into the box. Shame Lukaku was off form. Probably a fair result though, and it's intriguing to see what Man United will do now that van Gaal has started to inject a bit of excitement back into the team.
In Doctor Who terms, I feel like the new companion, who Twitter has christened 'asBill', is an interesting prospect on a number of levels. From the little we've seen of her, in many ways Bill falls in with the general pattern of young female companion from the present day, quick of wit and inevitably feisty. You could »
Doctor Who: Pearl Mackie confirmed as new companion
22 April 2016 9:41 AM, PDT
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The new Doctor Who companion, replacing Jenna Coleman's Clara in the Tardis, has been confirmed as Pearl Mackie...
We knew to expect "a very different sort of take" on the new Doctor Who companion. We knew that Peter Capaldi had worked with the actor previously. About an hour ago, thanks to the official BBC Who Twitter account, we learned that they had at least two feet which fit into small, pale green shoes.
Today%u2019s the day!
We're going to be covering the whole thing right here so stay tuned... #NewCompanion #DoctorWho pic.twitter.com/Cmf8o82mIG
— Doctor Who Official (@bbcdoctorwho) April 23, 2016
Now we know the vital information: their name. It's Pearl Mackie playing a character known as "Bill". Mackie is a relative newcomer with previous TV credits for Svengali and Doctors who made her debut in the new clip below, Friend From The Future. »
Amazon: certain videogames can only be purchased by Prime members
22 April 2016 4:02 AM, PDT
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Want to buy such hit games as Assassin's Creed Syndicate ? You'll need to shell out for Amazon Prime, we've learned...
For a subscription amounting to £79 per year for UK users, Amazon Prime offers access to one-day deliveries, streaming video and other perks. As highlighted by Videogamer, however, Amazon is now attempting to coax customers into signing up for Prime by only making certain games available to subscribers.
These "Prime-Exclusive Items" reportedly include such games as Grand Theft Auto 5, Rainbow Six Siege and Far Cry Primal. Curiously, though, there doesn't appear to be any consistency over which games are locked up on which system - the Xbox One Far Cry Primal is an exclusive, yet the PS4 version isn't. GTA 5, Rainbow Six Siege and Far Cry Primal on the PS4 are exclusives, but the Xbox One versions are available to everyone.
The PlayStation 4 Assassin's Creed: Syndicate is an »
Legends Of Tomorrow episode 12 review: Last Refuge
22 April 2016 3:35 AM, PDT
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The Legends Of Tomorrow enter Terminator territory this week, as The Pilgrim is sent to kill their younger selves...
This review contains spoilers
1.12 Last Refuge
Legends Of Tomorrow really makes the most of its time travel, doesn’t it? In season 1 of the show we’ve already visited the Old West, hung out with Marty McStein in the 1970s and seen a fair few scary dystopian futures. And now, Last Refuge has come up with another fun way to utilise temporal trickery...
The Time Masters have sent another assassin after The Waverider crew - The Pilgrim, played with cold callousness by guest star Faye Kingslee – and tasked her with stopping the Legends by killing their younger selves. ‘If you had a Tardis, how would you stop The Terminator?’ is essentially the question posed this week. Of course, Ray Palmer spotted this quickly and got in the spirit »
Marvel’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 3 episode 17 review: The Team
22 April 2016 2:39 AM, PDT
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The Secret Warriors have their own little Civil War in this week’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D., which ended with a hefty twist...
This review contains spoilers.
3.17 The Team
Ever since Skye’s real name was revealed to be Daisy Johnson, Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. fans have been expecting her to bring the Secret Warriors super-team together as per the comics. The end of last season teased this in a particularly big way. And, after plenty of teases and allusions, the Secret Warriors are now a real, actual thing...
If it weren’t for Daisy breaking bad at the end of the episode, The Team would probably be remembered as ‘the one where the Secret Warriors finally went on a mission’. So let’s start with that: seeing this gang get together and use their powers to take down a Hydra base was a thrilling way to kick things off, »
Ruiner: first trailer for great-looking sci-fi shooter
22 April 2016 1:57 AM, PDT
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It's a top-down shooter with a cool cyberpunk aesthetic. Check out the first trailer for Ruiner here...
Imagine the quick-and-dirty, top-down shooting of Hotline Miami fused with the cyberpunk lore of William Gibson and Katsuhiro Otomo. That's the best way to describe Ruiner, a PC game coming soon from Poland's Reikon and indie publisher Devolver Digital.
The first trailer below offers a first glimpse of the game in action, and it reminds us an awful lot of Bullfrog's spectacular 90s action strategy title, Syndicate - there's the same shadowy city which mechanically goes about its business until all the shooting starts. If you like what you see, Ruiner's website's also worth a visit - it takes you through the game's backstory and mechanics. The dash ability looks particularly impressive.
Ruiner's out this year for PC. When we have a more precise release date, we'll be sure to pass it along. »
Game Of Thrones renewed for season 7
22 April 2016 12:58 AM, PDT
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HBO has ordered season 7 of its fantasy mega hit Game Of Thrones, but the remaining episode count is unknown...
Sound the ‘Not Particularly Surprising News That's Still Quite Exciting’ klaxon! HBO has renewed Game Of Thrones for season 7, before season 6 has even begun its televised run.
As per tradition, we’d expect Game Of Thrones season 7 to reach our screens in the month of April next year. There’s one thing we don’t know, though – how many episodes will make up the season this time around.
Seasons 1 through 6 have all had 10 episodes apiece, but word on the web is that the next two seasons of the show could have less. Speaking to Variety recently, co-showrunner David Benioff said “I think we’re down to our final 13 episodes after this season [the sixth one]”, and HBO executive Michael Lombardo mentioned that the showrunners are planning “probably two more years after »
Teen Wolf director Rod Daniel dies, aged 73
21 April 2016 11:05 PM, PDT
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Rod Daniel, the director of Teen Wolf and K-9, dies at the age of 73.
Here’s some (more) sad news that we missed earlier in the week: Rod Daniel, the director of Teen Wolf, has died, at the age of 73.
Daniel’s directorial career also covered films such as Like Father Like Son, K-9, Home Alone 4 and Beethoven’s 2nd. He notably was quite dismissive of his own work in a later interview he gave, telling reporter Christopher Borrelli that “I hold no illusions. I wouldn’t buy a ticket to any of my movies”.
“It's going to sound like a cop-out, but when I retired, I never once thought about it. Does that answer your question? I don't rank with the greats. I made these [expletive] movies because I could, and because they paid me a great deal of money. Which is not to say I »
Jungle Book: Gravity director now helping with film
21 April 2016 10:32 PM, PDT
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Alfonso Cuaron has been brought in to "give notes" on Andy Serkis' upcoming Jungle Book movie...
With Disney and Jon Favreau’s The Jungle Book riding high at the top of the box office charts worldwide, Warner Bros has opted to do some additional surgery on its own Jungle Book film, that’s due in 2018. The studio has already changed the name of the movie from Jungle Book: Origins to Jungle Book, and it pushed the movie back to October 2018, buying itself more time.
Now comes the news that Gravity director Alfonso Cuaron has been brought in to take a look at the project.
Andy Serkis is making his directorial debut with Jungle Book, and he shot the footage he needed for it last year. His cast includes Benedict Cumberbatch, Christian Bale and Cate Blanchett, with Callie Kloves penning the script.
Where does Cuaron fit it? »
The Founder trailer: Michael Keaton starts McDonald’s
21 April 2016 10:30 PM, PDT
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The man who transformed McDonald's is brought to the screen by Michael Keaton, in The Founder...
Michael Keaton’s next big screen role will see him play Ray Kroc in The Founder. Kroc is the man who bought McDonald’s from its original founders back in 1961, and then turned it into the global business it’s known as today.
The movie is being directed by Saving Mr Banks’ John Lee Hancock, and it co-stars Laura Dern, John Carroll Lynch, Nick Offerman and Linda Cardellini. Arriving in Us cinemas in August (there’s no UK release date in place yet), the first trailer and an official synopsis for The Founder have now been released.
Here’s the trailer first…
And here’s the official synopsis…
Written by Robert Siegel (Big Fan), The Founder is a drama that tells the true story of how Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton), a salesman from Illinois, »
Hasbro Movie Universe writers room revealed
21 April 2016 10:28 PM, PDT
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A rebooted G.I. Joe will lead the upcoming Hasbro movie projects - and a lot of Marvel writers have been recruited to help.
When it was looking to expand and set-up a Transformers movie universe last year, Paramount Pictures hired Akiva Goldsman to bring together a writers’ room to come up with a whole bunch of new Transformers films. That they duly did, and Paramount – from 2017 – will be releasing a Transformers film a year.
Now, it wants to repeat the trick with other Hasbro properties.
It’s thus moving ahead with a Hasbro movie universe, to pull together the likes of a rebooted G.I. Joe, Micronauts, M.A.S.K. and Visionaries. Akiva Goldsman is again heading the writers’ room up, and here are the people he’s recruited.
There’s Nicole Riegel (who has been working on the new Tomb Raider film), Jeff Pinkner »
Blade Runner 2 casts Ana de Armas in a leading role
21 April 2016 10:22 PM, PDT
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Knock Knock's Ana de Armas is joining Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford in Blade Runner 2...
Just yesterday, we got the news that Blade Runner 2 is moving forward in the release schedules from January 2018, to a new date in October 2017. Now, we’ve got a big piece of casting news for the new movie.
We already knew that Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford were set to headline the new film. Now we learn that Ana de Armas, seen recently in Eli Roth’s Knock Knock, has landed a major role in the new film.
The official announcement from Alcon Entertainment doesn’t specify details of de Armas’ exact part in the film, in line with its decision to keep story details under wraps for the time being. Its official press statement does say that "we think Ana is one of the most exciting, up-and-coming international actors in the world today, »
Sherlock Holmes 3 looks like it might finally shoot this year
21 April 2016 10:20 PM, PDT
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Robert Downey Jr hints that Sherlock Holmes 3 might finally be happening...
It’s been five years since Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law came together for Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows. Since then, both actors have expressed that they’re keen to make a third Sherlock Holmes big screen adventure, and director Guy Ritchie is also on board with the idea. The problem has been scheduling, and just fitting the project in.
But there could now be progress.
Robert Downey Jr is currently doing the interview rounds for Captain America: Civil War, and he’s confirmed that a third Sherlock Holmes big screen adventure is edging closer. “We’re talking about it right now”, he told Shortlist. “I can’t wait. I know Guy Ritchie loves me as much as I love him – and he damn well should. When we’re making those Sherlock movies »
Line Of Duty series 3 episode 5 review
21 April 2016 1:45 PM, PDT
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Line Of Duty series 3’s penultimate episode is a gripping hour of drama that doesn’t fail to shock. Major spoilers...
This review contains spoilers.
Jed Mercurio says he doesn’t write tragedy, but what else could you call tonight’s episode? It unfolded like a Greek play, from the opening commendation ceremony—a scene scarcely more ironic had Mark Antony popped in to present Cottan with the award for most ‘honourable man’—to the death of Lindsay Denton, a conflicted hero whose fatal flaw finally proved such.
Denton’s tragic error was taking a shortcut to what she perceived as justice. You could say her fate was sealed the moment she broke faith with the law to see Tommy Hunter punished. Everything that happened to her since the ambush resulted from that mistake and her subsequent denial. She was Oedipus. With a fringe.
Like all tragic heroes, »
James Bond: Ralph Fiennes on his future as M
21 April 2016 12:15 PM, PDT
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Ralph Fiennes tells us that he’s signed for three James Bond movies, but he's not sure what the plan is for the next one.
There’s been a lot of questions about what will happen next for British superspy James Bond in the next installment after last year’s Spectre - especially on whether Daniel Craig might return as 007 since he’s been fairly vocal about not wanting to play the part a fifth time.
At the press day for Luca Guadagnino’s A Bigger Splash, Den Of Geek Us asked actor Ralph Fiennes, who took over the role of Bond’s handler M from Dame Judi Dench, whether he might stay on as M once they change Bonds, similar to how Dench remained in that role between Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig.
“I have no idea”, Fiennes said, unsurprisingly. “I’m poised to do another Bond if they want me, »
Prince dies, aged 57
21 April 2016 10:03 AM, PDT
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Horrible news: Prince has died, at the age of just 57.
2016 can just stop now.
Reports are coming in that the singer, actor, performer and genius Prince has died. He was just 57 years old. According to TMZ, he was found in his recording studio in Minnesota earlier today.
The news has since been confirmed by Prince's publicist.
Where do you start? His music. His movies. The summer of the Batdance. Prince’s work saw him sell over 100 million records in his lifetime, and bring us the immortal Purple Rain.
Horrible news, this. We seem to be writing these words an awful lot this year.
Rest in peace, Prince. You leave a body of word that will live on for a very, very long time.
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James Bond director Guy Hamilton dies, aged 93
21 April 2016 9:15 AM, PDT
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Guy Hamilton, who transformed James Bond, dies at the age of 93.
Guy Hamilton, best known for the his work on the James Bond movies, Goldfinger, Diamonds are Forever, Live and Let Die and The Man with the Golden Gun, has died at the Hospital Juaneda Miramar in the city of Palma de Mallorca on the Spanish island of Mallorca. He was 93.
Hamilton raised the profile of the James Bond movies through his work with original film 007 actor Sean Connery and Roger Moore, who played the spy starting with Live and Let Die and in 1974's The Man with the Golden Gun, which Hamilton directed.
"Incredibly, incredibly saddened to hear the wonderful director Guy Hamilton has gone to the great cutting room in the sky. 2016 is horrid," Moore wrote on Twitter.
Hamilton worked with Michael Caine on Battle of Britain and Harrison Ford on the 1978 adaptation of Force 10 from Navarone. »
The Flash season 2 episode 18 review: Versus Zoom
21 April 2016 7:07 AM, PDT
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Does The Flash have a woman problem? On the basis of its latest episode, it would seem so...
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Can we please talk about Caitlin Snow, and what a huge mess The Flash has made of her this season? It feels like a good time to do so, her being kidnapped again and all.
I'm starting to think that The Flash hates women and, with Arrow having gone through a similar problem since it premiered, that's really very sad. The show is so very good at so many things, but it's quite terrible at writing its female characters anything interesting, inoffensive or proactive to do. Caitlin is the most obvious victim of this, because I'd argue that Iris now is much improved from Iris a year ago.
No, Caitlin is continually shafted in Team Flash storylines, and her only function at this point seems »
Bastille Day review
21 April 2016 6:19 AM, PDT
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Idris Elba shines and Richard Madden snarks in Paris-set terrorism-tinged action movie Bastille Day...
It’s about time that Idris Elba took centre stage in a big screen action film. And if there’s one thing that stands out during Bastille Day, it’s not the eerie real world parallels (the film, about a terrorist attack in Paris, was actually shot before the events of November 2015) or the brace of British actors speaking with American accents; it’s that Mr Elba is very good at taking centre stake in a big screen action film.
But the film doesn’t open with him. Instead, we’re flung straight into the centre of France’s capital while Richard Madden’s Michael sneaks through a throng of distracted Parisians and pickpockets the lot of them. Madden is playing against type as a sarcastic street criminal, but enough of his Prince »
Geeks Vs Loneliness: setting and managing life goals
21 April 2016 4:41 AM, PDT
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From housework tombola to Race For Life: Sarah explains how she battles mental health problems, one job at a time.
Welcome to Geeks Vs Loneliness, our weekly spot where we talk about issues, problems, stresses and demands that are affecting sometimes a few, sometimes many of us. We try and come up with a few ideas that may be of us too, but as we've always said, we don't - worse luck - have any magical elixir in our cupboard.
This week, we welcome the brilliant Sarah Myers, who will take over the column from here. She wanted to talk about how she finds setting often very small goals helps her. Hopefully, there's something in here that might help you, or someone you know.
Over to Sarah...
I just finished washing the dishes! Can I get a medal?
Okay, so I didn't exactly win gold in an Olympic event, »
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