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Ian McArdell

Star Trek: Picard – Cast photos & interviews ahead of Season 2 launch

Picard begins its second season this week, with cast images in the new ‘Ten Forward’.  Patrick Stewart’s Star Trek: The Next Generation sequel series returns this week and there’s a promotional push underway. Joining Stewart for Season 2 are returnees Alison Pill, Jeri Ryan, Michelle Hurd, Evan Evagora, Orla Brady, Isa Briones, Santiago Cabrera and … >

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Cliff Beasts 6

Cliff Beasts 6 – trailer drops for Karen Gillan’s latest action movie

The epic Cliff Beasts saga will reach its peak on Netflix!  Styled CLIFF BEA6TS – Battle for Everest: Memories of a Requiem, Karen Gillan’s latest movie looks to have everything. Action, adventure, a stellar cast and, naturally, dinosaurs. Here’s the synopsis: “Humankind is threatened once again by a dinosaur species: Cliff Beasts. The team must … >

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Metropolis

Metropolis – a television series adaptation is a go at Apple TV+

Mr. Robot‘s Sam Esmail is adapting the seminal Fritz Lang science fiction movie.   After a lengthy gestation period, Deadline are reporting that the 1927 Fritz Lang silent movie Metropolis is to become an Apple TV+ television series. The deep-pocketed streamer has commissioned the project as part of Sam Esmail’s overall deal at Universal Content … >

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Futurama at Hulu: We're Back Baby!

Futurama revival – John DiMaggio is now confirmed to return as Bender

The original cast member has closed a deal to voice Futurama’s popular cigar-chomping robot.  Last month, the US streamer confirmed their plans to once again revive Matt Groening’s enduring sci-fi comedy animation Futurama. The show follows a slacker named Fry who is accidentally cryogenically frozen and wakes in the 31st Century. However, there was one … >

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Triffids! A new innovative take on the John Wyndham classic

The Triffids are coming in a new stage production (and audio drama) as Platform 4’s show tours the UK. Humanity beware, there’s a new outbreak of monstrous vegetation throughout the country! A new production which adapts John Wyndham’s classic novel The Day of the Triffids into an immersive stage show has arrived. Triffids! features a … >

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The CultBox Podcast Roundup – February 2022

Welcome to the CultBox Podcast Roundup for February 2022.  Our favourite podcasts this month in the worlds of film and tv have included, in no particular order… The Two Shot Podcast, S9 Ep11 – Arthur Darvill Craig Parkinson speaks to Arthur Darvill (Doctor Who, Broadchurch, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow). The wide-ranging conversation takes in his … >

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Henry Lincoln – Doctor Who writer, film-maker & historian 1930 – 2022

With his writing partner Mervyn Haisman, Henry Lincoln introduced the Brigadier and the Yeti to Doctor Who.  Over the weekend, the sad news reached us that Henry Lincoln has died, aged 91. In the 1960s, he helped create one of Doctor Who‘s enduring allies: Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. However, the following decade took his career in a … >

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