Author: B A Walsh

In honor of the Blu-Ray release of Tom Baker’s seventh season on Dr. Who, BBC Studios and Fathom events are hosting a special one-day showing of “Logopolis” on the Big Screen on March 13. “Logopolis” was Tom Baker’s final episode as the fourth Doctor and features his regeneration into fifth Doctor Peter Davison. It also introduces Anthony Ainley as The Master and Janet Fielding as Tegan Jovanka. The showing will feature a tour of the setting for the Planet Logopolis with Sarah Sutton (Nyssa) and Janet Fielding as well as an appearance by Tom Baker. Tom Baker’s seven season run…

Jan-Michael Vincent, perhaps best know for his role as Stringfellow Hawke on the TV series Airwolf (1984-1986) passed away on February 10 at the age of 73. Vincent’s first acting job was in The Bandits (1967). He appeared as Link in the Danger Island segments of Hanna Barbera’s The Banana Splits (1968-1969). He had several TV and movie roles including parts in the Disney film The World’s Greatest Athlete (1973), Damnation Alley (1977), based on the Roger Zelazny novel, Hooper (1978) with Burt Reynolds, and Big Wednesday (1978) about surfers. Vincent was cast in his role on Airwolf after he…

Some photos of Toy Story 4 merchandise give us our best look at Keanu Reeves’ character yet. On February 17, Heidi Wilhelm posted pictures of notebooks from the Scribe website. The notebooks had covers with old and new Toy Story characters. Other new Toy Story 4 characters Forky, Ducky, and Bunny have been seen previously. In November, when Tim Allen appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, he revealed that Reeves had been cast. About getting the role, Reeves told Collider last December, “I got a call which was really cool out the blue from the lovely people at…

Ever wonder how long it would take to Zamboni a completely frozen Lake Superior? Probably not. But the folks at U.P. Supply Co did the math. According to data collected by the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Laboratory since 1973, Lake Superior has only frozen completely once on March 8, 1996. So while it doesn’t seem likely we could get a completely frozen lake to Zamboni, the average peak of ice coverage occurs on March 3 giving some time to freeze up from the current state of 76.8% frozen. So if we reach the magical 100% frozen (maybe Elsa pays a…

Fans of the MonsterVerse who are eagerly awaiting the big showdown between its headlining stars, Godzilla and King Kong, will be happy to hear that the release date of Godzilla vs Kong has been moved earlier in 2020. Originally the film was set to debut on May 22, but now Warner Bros has slated the release for March 13, 2020. Universal’s moving the release of Fast and Furious 9 to the May 22 date may be the reason for the change. Now the two franchises won’t be competing for the box office that weekend. Godzilla vs Kong will be the…

The working title for James Bond 25, which will be Daniel Craig’s fifth and final film as 007, has been revealed: Shatterhand. There are no hints about the meaning of the title, although it was used in the Ian Fleming novel You Only Live Twice; Bond’s nemesis Ernst Stavro Blofeld used the alias Dr. Guntram Shatterhand. However, Christoph Waltz confirmed that he would not return as Blofeld back in 2017. The film will be directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, who had this to say “In terms of what I can bring to change the character, Bond is on a character…

Godzilla: King of the Monsters isn’t due to be released until May 31, but in honor of the Chinese New Year (Year of the Pig) Legendary Pictures released official character posters of the ‘The Four Kings’, the film’s titular monsters, on February 5 joining in celebrating the Lunar New Year with Chinese fans of the Godzilla-franchise/MonsterVerse . The posters feature Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan, and Ghidorah. King of the Monsters is a sequel to Godzilla (2014) and its synopsis states: The new story follows the heroic efforts of the cryptozoological agency Monarch as its members face off against a battery of…

The Disney-Fox deal cleared one of its few remaining hurdles when Brazilian regulators conditionally approved the deal on Wednesday. As previously reported, Brazil’s antitrust regulator CADE had concerns about the combination of Disney’s ESPN and Fox Sports. Disney agreed to sell not only Fox Sports in Brazil but also all the network’s broadcast rights. Disney has also agreed, for a fixed period, not to sign agreements with the sports leagues that have agreements with Fox Sports, not to try to reacquire those rights, and to offer free use of the Fox brand to the buyer of Fox Sports. “The measure…

Actor Kit Harington (born Christopher Catesby Harington) is no stranger to fantasy roles. His breakthrough role came in the HBO TV series Game of Thrones in 2011. He went on to voice the character Eret in the films How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) and How to Train Your Dragon 3: The Hidden World (2019). Now a lost audition tape reveals a connection between those seemingly disparate properties. The 2010 audition for an “Untitled TV Fantasy Drama” has Kit auditioning with a big Hollywood star. What star Kit (and you) may be asking – none other than Toothless the…

According to Variety, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is in talks with MGM to star as the titular villain in the new Candyman horror film being produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkey Paw productions in conjunction with Win Rosenfeld and MGM. Peele is writing the script. Peele wrote and directed the award-winning Get Out (2017), which grossed $225 million worldwide. Abdul-Mateen recently appeared as the villain Black Manta in Aquaman. The new Candyman is said to be a “spiritual sequel” to the original 1992 film and will take place in the neighborhood where the legend began: “the now-gentrified section of Chicago where the…