The first trailer for season 2 of DC Universe series “Doom Patrol” is here, and with it the knowledge that it’s heading to HBO Max. Season 2 of the show will kick off with three new episodes hitting HBO Max streaming service on June 25th 2020.
Author: Mary Anne Butler
Mary Anne Butler
Mary Anne Butler (Mab) has been part of the fast-paced world of journalism since she was 15, getting her start in album reviews and live concert coverage for a nationally published (print) music magazine. She eventually transitioned to online media, writing for such sites as UGO/IGN, ComicsOnline, Geek Magazine, Ace of Geeks, Aggressive Comix (where she is still Editor-in-Chief), Bleeding Cool (where she was News Editor), and now Nerdbot as Editor-In-Chief. Over the past 10 years, she’s built a reputation at conventions across the globe as a cosplayer (occasionally), photographer (constantly), panelist and moderator (mostly), and reporter (always). Interviews, reviews, observations, breaking news, and objective reporting are the name of the game for the founder of Harkonnen Knife Fight, a Dune-themed band with an international presence. Though she be but little, she is fierce.
Dear Kevin Smith, thank you for knowing exactly what >this< writer needs this week. A celebration of the groundbreaking, genre-defining blockbuster “Jaws” on the 45th anniversary of it’s summer release.Steven Spielberg’s seminal film based on Peter Benchly’s novel remains a touchstone of filmmaking. The main cast alone, Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, and Richard Dreyfuss, keeps you engaged throughout. If you’ve ever seen it, this is the summer to do so. Smith announced his watch-along, saying: We’re gonna need a bigger boat! On SATURDAY, watch JAWS with me on the flick’s 45th Anniversary as I Tweet along and tell tales of…
It’s almost spooky season, and that means the ghost with the most is on our minds. Tim Burton’s beloved “Beetlejuice” is FINALLY getting a 4K release, and we are SO EXCITED. The deluxe box set comes in this lovely Handbook for the Recently Deceased case, and includes a glow-in-the-dark patch, a poster, and instructions for drawing your own doorway into the Netherworld (including chalk!). As far as extras? We’re not sure yet. Warner Bros. Pictures hasn’t released anything official with a listing for extras, but we’re hoping for something good. You can pre-order the set on Amazon here.Word is it’ll…
This just in:Long-running reality tv series “COPS” has been officially cancelled by Paramount. Originally premiering in 1989, the touchtone series has [understandably] come under fire several times for the cases presented and the portrayal of both uniformed police officers and the assailants they arrest. This story is developing. Variety first broke this news.
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: