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Twenty years have passed since we last met up with Captain Jean-Luc Picard, and now Patrick Stewart is teasing how the Star Trek universe has changed over the years.
Ted Bundy was one of the great monsters of American history. He was a killer, a rapist, a kidnapper and a necrophiliac who murdered more than 30 young women. He's back in the spotlight now thanks to Netflix’s Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes as well as the trailer for the Zac Efron-starring Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile. While it's worrying that Netflix put out a message explaining that:
The second half of The Walking Dead's ninth season premieres on Sunday, February 10th and, as always, things are changing for our characters. After a midseason finale which felt like a response to criticisms that the show's getting stale, it's now in some new and interesting territory. Much of this is due to the six-year time jump that took place in the first half of the season, in which characters aged and infants grew up into children.
The more we hear about the new Star Trek show featuring the return of Jean-Luc Picard the better it sounds, with Patrick Stewart recently saying that it'll feel like a 10-hour movie.
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), which I and everyone else will be referring to as Birds of Prey for the sake of brevity, released its first teaser trailer earlier this week and is currently shooting in Los Angeles. And, with a location shoot comes set photos, the latest of which have arrived today and show off a couple of new outfits for Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn.
There's a low-key war brewing on the internet. On one side are those who've fetishized toothy alien goo space parasite Venom, getting their kicks to the infinite possibilities of a gelatinous interstellar pervert who can form into any shape. On the other, we have those who've begun to fancy the pants off serial killer and rapist Ted Bundy, who's newly in the spotlight after the release of the Netflix's Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes as well as the trailer for the Zac Efron-starring Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile.
Exactly how much of the Star Wars story George Lucas had planned out when he was writing (what would come to be known as) A New Hope has always been a matter for debate amongst fans. After all, the film was intended to be called Episode IV, which suggests he had some idea of its place in the wider saga. But this week, someone's unearthed the revised fourth draft of the script on Reddit, which at least confirms that Luke and Leia were never originally intended to be twins.
Our long wait for more Avengers: Endgame footage is finally over, as it's now been confirmed that we'll see a new TV spot on Sunday, February 3rd during Super Bowl LIII. The inclusion of the promo on Super Bowl Sunday has been rumored for a very long time, but now it's just a matter of counting down the days until it airs, and while the first trailer was rather sombre and low-key, the nature of Super Bowl ads means that Marvel Studios will be eager to dazzle audiences with some of the more impressive sequences from the film.
Star Trek: Nemesis is an awful movie and a horrible sendoff to The Next Generation's characters. It squanders a young Tom Hardy, has a nonsensical plot and generally feels like something that was tossed together with little care and attention. In fact, the cast has since gone on to fiercely criticize Nemesis' director, Stuart Baird, who proudly claimed on set that he'd never watched an episode of The Next Generation and had no idea who the majority of the actors were (he repeatedly got LeVar Burton's name wrong, calling him Laverne).
For a long time, Universal Pictures' Fast and Furious series was a guilty pleasure. Then, sometime around the release of Fast Five, I just gave up any pretensions and became of a full on fan of this ridiculously entertaining movie franchise that brings together some of the most charismatic action stars and the most ridiculous vehicle-based stunt sequences that money can buy. So yeah, I'm pretty excited for this summer's Hobbs and Shaw, a spinoff from the franchise that pits Dwayne Johnson's Hobbs and Jason Statham's Shaw against Idris Elba's sinister Brixton.