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Doctor Who has been going for nearly 66 years now, but it seems that some people still have absolutely no idea what it's about. Most of the time that's forgivable, but perhaps not if you're in charge of writing descriptions of shows for Netflix. Right now, the current description for Doctor Who reads:
“Evil aliens. A wacky but brilliant tourguide. Flying through space in a tiny blue box is the trip of a lifetime.”
Rambo returns in style later this year and promises to be a triumphant comeback for the iconic hero, but Stallone says the film took a toll on his body.
Avengers: Endgame took another step towards completion today, with the Russo Brothers announcing on Twitter that the movie is now locked. In layman's terms, that means that they've finished editing it and the film you'll see next month is in a watchable state. That's not to say that it's complete though, as work on CGI elements, compositing, 3D conversion and sound mixing will carry on right up until the moment it's shipped to its premiere screening.
Warner Bros seriously messed up when it came to Justice League. Having regarded Marvel Studios' The Avengers success with envious eyes they set out to replicate it. But where the MCU established their heroes across five movies before going for the team-up Warner Bros opted for just two. Then there was the famously chaotic behind-the-scenes drama, with Zack Snyder being booted from the project after executives got cold feet based on the critical mauling of Batman v Superman. Large portions of the movie were reshot with Joss Whedon - with the finished product limping into cinemas under a cloud of bad vibes and proceeding to disappoint pretty much everyone that saw it.
From the moment Detective Pikachu was unveiled there were rumors that psychic Pokémon Mewtwo would be the villain of the piece. After all, he played a villainous role in The First Pokémon Movie and is one of the few Pokémon in the franchise to be generally considered evil. Last week we even got a new poster for the movie that was literally crawling with different Pokémon, and if you looked really carefully you could just about make out Mewtwo's silhouette on top of a skyscraper in the distance.
The Walt Disney Corporation is soon to conclude its merger with Fox, the most attention-grabbing feature of which will be Marvel Studios being able to use the X-Men and Fantastic Four characters in the MCU. But that's just the tip of the iceberg. On top of that, Disney is also getting an enormous amount of rights to classic properties that sound like an odd fit for the House of Mouse. Can you imagine Disney's Alien, Donald Duck vs Predator? Goofy teaming up with Mulder and Scully to investigate a seriously weird crime? Perhaps the weirdest is that it seems that Disney will soon be releasing a remake of The Fly.
Captain Picard will be back on our screens sooner rather than later, and these newly released character breakdowns for his Star Trek give us some good clues as to the tone of the series.
Resident Evil 2 frequently scares the living daylights out of me. There are few sounds in modern games that send chills up my spine quicker than the *thud* *thud* *thud* of Mr. X's hulking footsteps. But at least you can turn the console off and escape them, right? Wrong. As players of Tencent's PUBG MOBILE will know, the shambling undead, vicious lickers and even (if you're very unlucky) the Tyrant have all been menacing folks in the special Survive Till Dawn mode.