John Williams, the man behind the iconic themes for Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Indiana Jones among many others, is to be the first composer to receive AFI’s Life Achievement Award. “John Williams has written the soundtrack to our lives,” Howard Stringer, Chair of the AFI Board of Trustees, said in a statement. “Note by note, through chord […]
The latest teaser trailer for Netflix’s adaptation of Marvel’s Jessica Jones features a very creepy voiceover from David Tennant – and even a brief appearance by the man himself. Sort of. It also gives a brief glimpse of Jessica’s office as she prepares a wall of pictures relating to… what exactly? Jessica Jones is released on November 20th on Netflix.
Scott Lang will be back in action in 2018, Disney has confirmed. Ant Man and the Wasp will hit cinemas on July 6, 2018, leading to further changes in the schedule for Marvel’s new solo movies. Black Panther will now be released five months early, on February 16, 2018 while Captain Marvel has moved back from November 2018 to March […]
Sam Smith’s song for the new James Bond theme SPECTRE has gone straight to #1 in the UK charts, and the video, released today, will also be of interest to 007 fans – even if they’re not fans of the song itself. As is common with the Bond theme videos, footage from the movie is interspersed with the singer, and […]
John Hurt is returning to the role of the War Doctor, in 12 full cast Doctor Who audio plays from Big Finish. The War Doctor was introduced for Doctor Who’s […]
There’s another new Marvel series coming from ABC – but it’s not a serious drama in the vein of Agents of SHIELD or Agent Carter. It’s about the clean-up crew. […]
Daniel Craig vs Christoph Waltz – that’s the conflict at the heart of the new Bond film, SPECTRE, and it’s front and centre in the final trailer, released the same day as Sam Smith’s controversial theme broke records by becoming the first ever Bond song at #1 in the UK charts. Featuring scenes from across the movie and around the […]
The first new Doctor Who spin-off since The Sarah Jane Adventures is heading to BBC Three next year – and according to its creator, to BBC One as well. BBC […]
The trailer for a new episode of classic Thunderbirds has been released. The Kickstarter-financed new episodes of the epic series have been shooting for the last few weeks at the […]
We’ve never been in more danger, Fox Mulder believes in the first full trailer for the X-Files reunion series set to air next January. With appearances by Mulder, Scully, a bearded Walter Skinner and an old nemesis that many believed could not be back, the trailer gives some hints as to the threat that the agents face. It was originally […]
It’s less than a minute long but the first teaser trailer for Netflix’s second Marvel series, Jessica Jones, gives plenty of clues to the characterisation that the show will feature. According to Marvel, “After a tragic ending to her short-lived Super Hero stint, Jessica Jones is rebuilding her personal life and career as a detective who gets pulled into cases […]
If you were one of the many who weren’t able to get the day off work to go to the first day of the Radio Times Festival, then you’ll have missed the Doctor Who strand – featuring Russell T Davies, Simon Guerrier and Dr Marek Kukula, and Peter Capaldi, Steven Moffat, Brian Minchin and Frank Skinner… …but we were there […]
There will be a second chance to watch the opening two episodes of Series 9 of Doctor Who on BBC One this Sunday, 27th September, at 3.15 p.m. The showing of The Magician’s Apprentice and The Witch’s Familiar is being promoted as a feature-length repeat of the story starring Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Michelle Gomez and Julian Bleach. The Radio Times currently […]
Sam Smith’s Writing’s on the Wall, the theme to the new James Bond movie SPECTRE, was unveiled on radio today. The song begins in typical bombastic Bond style, with some fans calling it the best Bond theme ever – even Sir Roger Moore noted “Sam Smith has delivered a very haunting and wonderfully orchestrated #spectre theme song. Well done!” – […]
Nigel Kneale’s classic tale of haunting, The Stone Tape, is heading to Radio 4 this Halloween, in a new version by Matthew Graham and Peter Strickland. The one-hour drama will […]
There’ll be some time before the Prometheus movies fully tie in to the Alien mythology from which it grew, director Ridley Scott has claimed. While promoting his new movie The Martian, Scott noted. “Prometheus has its own story to tell before it eventually ties into the movie that started it all…it won’t be in the next one. It will be […]
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