Author: Mary Anne Butler

We are SUPER pleased to tell you about one of Gentle Giant Ltd.’s San Diego Comic Con (SDCC) exclusives! Even though the con isn’t physically taking place at the convention center this year, many of the usual vendors and exhibitors are still offering their special exclusives to the public. With, we might add, a higher liklihood of the people who actually WANT these things being able to get these things.Check out the Tron VHS Deluxe Action Figure: Gentle Giant Ltd. is excited to bring you the #TRON VHS Deluxe Action Figure as one of the #SDCC2020 exclusives! The 7-inch VHS inspired figure includes multiple…

Filmmaker Judd Apatow has a new flick out right now with “Saturday Night Live” star Pete Davidson, “The King of Staton Island.” It’s the first title for the director in roughly 5 years, and it’s generating a lot of buzz.But this isn’t the thing we’re really excited about, sorry Pete. According to Apatow himself during this pretty great interview with the Boston Globe, the next thing he’s working on with partner Michael Bonfiglio is a documentary about the late great Geroge Carlin. “I’m about to start work with my partner Michael Bonfiglio on a documentary about George Carlin. So I’m…

This just in- another live event has been cancelled due to concerns over Covid-19, and we’re not really surprised. Chicago’s annual Lollapalooza music festival is the latest to outright cancel, rather than postpone.  Lollapalooza will offer a weekend-long livestream between July 30th and August 2nd, but details on that haven’t been officially revealed yet. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has cancelled all permitted special events through Labor Day, including Chicago SummerDance, Taste of Chicago and Lollapalooza in Grant Park; the Chicago Air and Water Show at North Avenue Beach; Chicago Jazz Festival in Millennium Park; the majority of programming at the…

We’ve been waiting on the edge of our seats for the most excellent trailer drop of the year [other than “Dune”]- “Bill & Ted Face The Music.” The two Great Ones Bill S. Preston, Esq. and Ted Theodore Logan are back, played once again by Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves.The Wyld Stallyns are on the adventure of a lifetime with their daughters Thea (Samara Weaving) and Billie (Brigette Lundy-Paine). Dean Parisot directs from a script by Ed Solomon. The original release date for the film was August 21st, 2020 and still seems to be “this summer.”

Daniel Radcliffe, star of the “Harry Potter” franchise of films, has issued a statement in the form of an essay on the subject of J.K. Rowling’s recent tweets regarding gender identity. Radcliffe’s essay was posted to The Trevor Project’s official website.Rowling, author of the Potter books, has come under fire previously for her retweeting of known anti-trans women associations and organizations, and doubled down earlier this month with a full-blown rant on her personal Twitter which you can read more about here. Founded in 1998 by the creators of the Academy Award®-winning short film TREVOR, The Trevor Project is the…

We have been WAITING for the first episode of “Danny’s Diary,” a spinoff of Gary Whitta’s hugely popular “Animal Talking” in-game series based on Nintendo’s Animal Crossing: New Horizons. “Danny’s Diary” is hosted by none other than Danny Trejo, who is a huge fan of the game, and Whitta’s talkshow. So much so, that Whitta offered him his own spinoff, “Danny’s Diary.”They just released the first episode, check it out:

We are happy to report that Sony PlayStation have announced their rescheduled date and time for the official PS5 presentation.

The poor on again off again relationship of the Disney+ “Star Wars” spinoff series based on Jedi Master Obi Wan Kenobi is like a high school couple who just can’t get it together. You WANT to see it work, but after so much drama and back and fourth about he said she said, you’re ready to step away from hoping for awhile.Enter one Deborah Chow, who will be directing the possible “Kenobi” series for Disney+ following her stint on “The Mandalorian.” Back when Chow was announced for the gig, Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy said in an official statement to Star…

The Golden Gate Bridge is causing an audible nightmare, resembling The One Ring calling to Faramir.

No, The Big Cat Public Safety Act is not the name of a new book, tour, or album from the godfather of punk, Iggy Pop. It is instead federal legislation that aims to make private ownership of, direct public contact with, and dangerous interactions with big cats (such as tigers and lions) illegal. And it’s something that Pop feels strongly about. “The Big Cat Public Safety Act, which has bipartisan support in both the house and senate, is aimed at protecting big cats from abuse and neglect by prohibiting private possession of these wild animals, and banning risky public encounters…