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Spider Baby or The Maddest Story Ever Told (1967) (film review).
GF Willmetts tracks down an Italian DVD of Spider Baby, Jack Hill's 1967 cult horror with Lon Chaney Jr. as chauffeur to a very spooky family.
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Dune: Part Three’s final trailer lands, and the Emperor has run out of excuses (trailer).
Warner Bros. releases the final Dune: Part Three trailer, with Villeneuve's Dune Messiah finale opening in UK cinemas and IMAX on 18th December.
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Time Jump by Adam Simcox (book review).
Sue Davies reviews Adam Simcox's Time Jump, in which guilt-ridden Rachel wins a free trip back to 1997 to undo a death, and…
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Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis digs up 1996 once more, thirty years after Derby gave us Lara (games news).
Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, the Unreal Engine 5 remake of Lara Croft's 1996 debut, arrives on 12 February 2027, thirty years after…
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Charlie Weasley Finally Clears Customs, And HBO Finds Harry’s Parents.
HBO's Harry Potter series has cast Harry Gilby as Charlie Weasley, Jasper Talbot as James Potter and Hannah Chinn as Lily Potter for…
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Matt Howarth dies aged 72: farewell to the creator of Those Annoying Post Bros. and Savage Henry.
Matt Howarth, the self-taught creator of Those Annoying Post Bros., Savage Henry and Bugtown, has died aged 72. Michael Swanwick says he deserved…
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Great Scott! Back to the Future Part II’s first draft sent Marty to 1967, and gave Doc LSD.
Bob Gale has posted an early draft of Back to the Future Part II, in which Marty goes to 1967, is arrested as…
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The Kingslayer turns ghostbuster: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau leads MGM+’s The Black Tapes.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau will star in MGM+'s eight-episode version of the 2015 horror podcast The Black Tapes, playing sceptic Dr Richard Strand.
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From hedge knight to blue genius: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Peter Claffey reportedly cast as Beast in Marvel’s X-Men.
Peter Claffey, Dunk in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, is reportedly Marvel's new Beast. It's unconfirmed, but filming is said to start…
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Come with me if you want to stream: AI panic is sending viewers back to The Terminator.
Parrot Analytics says AI anxiety has made The Terminator a streaming comfort watch, 42 years after release. We look at the numbers, and…
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Eric Bauza dies aged 46: the voice of Bugs Bunny, Marvin the Martian and Master Mold.
Eric Bauza, the modern voice of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, has died suddenly at 46. He was also Marvin the Martian, Splinter,…
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Jeff Lemire is assembling the Absolute Teen Titans, and Cyborg was found in somebody’s laboratory (comics news).
Jeff Lemire says the Absolute Teen Titans will debut in Absolute Flash #25, after Absolute Cyborg's arrival in issue #20. Mild spoilers for…
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Land of the Lustrous creator Haruko Ichikawa swaps shattered gems for happiness in Cosmic Mimimi (manga news).
Haruko Ichikawa, creator of Land of the Lustrous, launches Cosmic Mimimi, a 'neo kawaii sci-fi' manga, in Kodansha's Monthly Afternoon on 25 November.
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Maximum X-Men: with the Avengers out of business, Storm’s mutants take the calls, and the first one is from Annihilus (comics news).
Christopher Yost and Tony S. Daniel's Maximum X-Men #1 arrives on 2 December, with Storm's new team filling the gap left by the…
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