Author: Bill Watters

It’s been 26 years since Mark Frost and David Lynch’s surreal serial drama Twin Peaks last had a new episode on television. That’s so long ago that MTV was still playing music videos from time to time. We’d only had one President Bush, and anything you wanted to know about a TV series you’d have […]

In the “silly reasoning” file for the day, it seems that in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, the villain was originally going to have been a female character. That would have been great, considering a relative dearth of women characters. In a recent blog post, screenwriter Terry Rossio commented: My version of […]

Saturday Night Live has had a ratings resurgence this year, with it having had it’s best season numbers in the past two decades. But even as that good news was still sinking in, word has been emerging that not one but two longtime cast members will be saying goodbye and moving on in their careers. Both […]

Well that didn’t take long – Resident Evil: The Final Chapter released on blu-ray and dvd on May 16th. As of this writing, that’s 5 days ago. Less than a week. And now there’s word from Variety that German production house Constantin Film is planning to do an original 6-film franchise, effectively rebooting the whole thing […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] BLAME!, the bestselling manga has been adapted into an animated film and has today (as of May 20th) been released as a Netflix Original on the streaming network. Created by Tsutomu Nihei, the series had it’s original incarnation as a 10 volume manga which was published between 1998 and today. Directed by Hiroyuki Seshita and written […]

Fear the Walking Dead is returning on June 4th with it’s 16 episode season three. In a new TV trailer, there’s more strife between the humans, with the Otto’s family ranch being the staging ground for a defense against approaching waves of walkers. But as with most places of safety in the Walking Dead universe, what’s safe […]

Here we go again; Mamma Mia! the 2008 blockbuster adaptation of the award winning Broadway play by ABBA alums Benny Anderson and Björn Ulvaeus is going to get a sequel. If you can’t hear the enthusiasm in my voice, it’s because there isn’t any. I’m one of the most enthusiastic fans of both ABBA and the musical, […]

The series creator and series lead have announced that rather than the $250,000 normally spent to do the dog and pony campaign to garner support for an Emmy Award, they would be donating the amount to Planned Parenthood. It was during the CBS The Morning show discussing the upcoming season’s lineup, creator Chuck Lorre and […]

With the recent rash of attacks involving ransomware affecting companies worldwide, Walt Disney’s Bob Iger telling employees that their latest installment in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise is being threatened to be released online by a group calling itself informed Disney unless they pay their own ransom, it would seem that hackers are getting […]

We’d just been writing the other day about the fact that Hiroaki Samura’s manga to live-action adaptation of his Blade of the Immortal had scored an upcoming American release by way of Magnet Releasing (the genre division of Magnolia Pictures). Now we’re back on the topic once again, and this time it’s with the first English-language version […]