Author: Bill Watters

One might think that if there’s a sign alongside the road that says “Bridge Closed”, drivers might find another way to get where they’re going rather than to drive on through. When it comes to the warnings on films and television series, viewers are more apt to blow on past the warnings then complain that […]

It’s been 26 years since Twin Peaks first appeared to mess with our minds in a cultural touchstone series that arguably really wouldn’t have anything quite like it until Lost. Now we seem to be six months or less away from the new volume’s premiere on Showtime (the original series was on ABC). David Lynch and Mark Frost have both returned to write the new nine-volume season.

To absolutely no one’s surprise, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story has crushed the worldwide box office numbers with estimates tracking at $155 million domestically and another $135 million internationally. With an overall “A” Cinemascore and 84% on RottenTomatoes it continues to validate Disney’s approach to push beyond the core Star Wars saga into the […]

Zsa Zsa Gabor:  the name that you probably recognize but can’t put a face to until you google her, but then will say – oh, I remember her, has passed away at 99 from a heart attack at her home in Bel Air. For more than sixty years, she had appeared on television and film […]

Rogue One’s use of the character of Grand Moff Tarkin, as played by Peter Cushing is an impressive next step in the use of CGI to allow filmmakers to be able to utilize actors who have either passed away, or need to be shown at a far younger age. In Cushing’s case, he had died back in ’94, which left filmmakers with only a few options: not use the character at all, to recast, or to utilize special effects to see how far through the uncanny valley the industry has progressed.

TL;DR: Let’s be really clear – more than anything else, Rogue One is a PG-13 sci-fi war movie. Sure, it’s not Saving Private Ryan level, but if you were to cut out some of Ryan’s flying limbs, guts, and blood – it’s not entirely that far off. It’s definitely still in the Star Wars Universe – […]

CBS’s upcoming online-only Star Trek: Discovery series has just picked up at least one cast member from The Walking Dead. Sonequa Martin-Green, who plays Sasha on AMC’s long-running zombie fest and amateur baseball league series, will be playing what’s described as the “lead role” in the 6th of the Star Trek series. Martin-Green will be playing a […]

We’re down to it just being a number of hours before Rogue One opens and everyone is talking about it at the office, at school, on the commute, and basically everywhere. In celebration of it once again being Star Wars week, we wanted to pull together a selection of some of our favorite SW cosplay […]

As the season’s bloodbath of cancellation announcements keep on coming, WGN America’s supernatural (with equal parts drama and romance) series Salem will end after it’s current season.

Lionsgate has tapped Leverage and The Librarians’ creator John Rogers as showrunner and writer for their upcoming television arm of the high fantasy series The Kingkiller Chronicle. We had previously reported that Hamilton’s Lin-Manuel Miranda as the franchise’s creative producer and music developer. The series is going in a unique direction with Lionsgate simultaneously working […]