As a kid growing up in the 1980s, your CultBox correspondent had several pre-adolescent crushes on female characters in imported cartoon series. Two that immediately spring to mind are Princess in Battle of the Planets and Sheila, the Thief from Dungeons and Dragons. Whether that was because they both had a tendency – thanks to … >
One of the most memorable moments in the enjoyably average Simpsons movie was Homer’s adopting of a porcine pet. Here, with visuals provided by whoever uploaded it to YouTube, is the full song from the end of the film. Ironically, given that the pig also adopts the guise of Harry Plopper later in the picture, … >
In July 2001, the first teaser trailer for Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man was released to cinemas. By the time the film itself appeared a year later, the promo had long since been withdrawn and none of the footage it contained was apparent anywhere in the finished movie. Why? Well, according to distributors Sony, the sequence was … >
Alfred Molina (Spider-Man 2) and Francesca Annis (Cranford) will head the cast of BBC One’s Loving Miss Hatto, a one-off drama written by Victoria Wood.
An official trailer has been released for next year’s The Amazing Spider-Man movie, which features former Doctor Who guest star Andrew Garfield as the titular web-slinging hero.