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And Just Like That renewed for second season

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HBO Max has renewed the Sex and the City sequel series And Just Like That… for a second season. The series reunites original Sex and the City stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis as Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte as they navigate through new problems in their families, romances and friendship. The series was created by Michael Patrick King […]

James Gunn to play himself in Harley Quinn season 3, Harvey Guillen will voice Nightwing

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The upcoming third season of HBO Max’s animated series Harley Quinn is going to feature some real world DC talent as The Suicide Squad and Peacemaker director James Gunn will voice himself in one of the episodes. The news was announced by Harley Quinn co-creator Patrick Schumaker during a panel at the SXSW film festival. Gunn will guest star as himself as […]

We Own This City trailer sees HBO and The Wire’s David Simon back in Baltimore

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HBO has released the first trailer and images for We Own This City , a new limited series crime drama from The Wire creator David Simon which examines the corruption and moral collapse which led to the fall of the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force. Based on Justin Fenton’s book We Own This […]

Ansel Elgort descends into the Japanese underworld in trailer for HBO Max series Tokyo Vice

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HBO Max has released a poster and trailer for the crime drama Tokyo Vice. Loosely based on Jake Adelstein’s 2009 memoir Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan and with a pilot directed by Michael Mann (Manhunter, Heat), the series stars Ansel Elgort, Ken Watanabe, Rinko Kikuchi, Rachel Keller, Ella Rumpf, […]

The Batman HBO Max spin-off The Penguin officially ordered

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The world of The Batman is already expanding as HBO Max has officially ordered The Penguin, a limited series which will see Colin Farrell reprise his role as Gotham’s gangster Oswald Cobblepot, a.k.a. The Penguin. Spoilers for The Batman follow… The Penguin will follow Cobblepot “as he rises through the ranks of Gotham’s criminal underworld.” There is no […]

First trailer for HBO Max’s DC adaptation DMZ starring Rosario Dawson

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HBO Max has released a trailer for the dystopian drama series DMZ. Based on Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli’s DC/Vertigo graphic novel of same name, it follows Alma Ortega (Rosario Dawson) as she navigates a demilitarized zone in Manhattan in a desperate quest to find her son; watch it here… DMZ leaps off the pages […]

The Batman’s GCPD HBO Max spin-off has “evolved” to focus on Arkham Asylum

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With The Batman dominating the box office this weekend, all eyes are on the future for director Matt Reeves’ new franchise. While an HBO Max spin-off series is still in development, the focus has now evolved from it being centred on the Gotham City Police Department to Arkham Asylum, the prison that holds many of Batman’s most […]

TV Review – The Tourist

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Martin Carr reviews The Tourist… This off-kilter thriller from the creators of Baptiste and The Missing, may feel like a Western with road movie tropes, but also sits squarely in Coen Brothers country. Trying to pressgang The Tourist into any traditional genre soon becomes an exercise in futility, as events begin to escalate quite quickly. Quirky encounters and an […]

Batgirl set photos offer best look yet at Brendan Fraser’s Firefly costume

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We’ve already seen some of the fiery carnage he’s been causing around Gotham City back in January, and now we have our clearest look yet at DC Comics villain Firefly in full costume thanks to the latest round of spy photos and video from the set of the upcoming HBO Max Original movie Batgirl. The […]

Michael Keaton teases his Batman return with Batgirl set photo

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Thirty years after last portraying the character in Batman Returns, Michael Keaton’s Dark Knight will be back on the big screen this year as he joins the DC Extended Universe with an appearance in the multiverse-spanning Ezra Miller-led The Flash movie. This won’t be a “one-and-done” outing either, as Keaton is currently back under the […]