The third season of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon is officially green-lit, with Norman Reedus and Melissa McBride sharing behind-the-scenes footage on location in Madrid. The spin-off was renewed for a third chapter during the San Diego Comic-Con panel in July. The spin-off, one of multiple shows to emerge following the conclusion of the parent … Read more
Matthew Jacobs, the writer responsible for the 1996 Doctor Who television film, will return to the series alongside Paul McGann for an audio drama boxset of Eighth Doctor adventures. Courtesy of a story from The Radio Times, Jacobs, 68, will be writing an episode of the series entitled Puccini and the Doctor. A wealth of … Read more
When I saw revered and somewhat controversial comedian Katt Williams show up on a thumbnail for an episode of Club Shay Shay, the podcast of former NFL tight end-turned-sports commentator Shannon Sharpe, it was a surprise. Mainly because I hadn’t heard about the comedian in nearly a decade, and when I last did it, it … Read more
As a lifelong Dragon Ball fan, you can imagine how distraught I was when hearing the tragic news of Akira Toriyama’s sudden passing last month. The news struck fans across the globe, with millions taking to comment sections, forums, and anywhere else around the inter-webs to share their personal stories of just how much the … Read more
When news broke a few days ago that legendary mangaka and creator of one of the most globally recognizable IPs in Dragon Ball, Akira Toriyama, had passed away at the spry age of 68, my heart sank. Toriyama sensei meant more to me than the next couple thousand words could possibly explain. Dragon Ball, especially … Read more
For a couple years now I’ve been seeing people around the web chirp the praises for a show I never considered watching. Not for any particular reason, but more due to the fact that there was always something else to watch, and the thumbnail of a disgruntled group of restaurant employees led by an even … Read more
I must confess first and foremost that Percy Jackson and the Olympians was one of my favorite book series growing up. Throughout middle and high school, I was completely sucked into Rick Riordan’s urban fantasy stories where a world of mythology hides just beneath the surface, and great heroes emerge from otherwise inconspicuous 8th grade … Read more
Spoilers from the outset for this review of the Doctor Who 60th-Anniversary Special, “The Giggle.” The end looms for the Fourteenth Doctor in the third and final episode of the 60th-anniversary specials. It all begins in Soho, 1925, with the birth of television, an appropriate subject matter to honor the 60-year milestone and an effective means to welcome … Read more
“Why do I want a child who looks more white?” This was the question Amber Noizumi, creator of Netflix’s Blue Eye Samurai, asked herself after she’d gleefully texted her white husband and co-creator, Michael Green, about their newborn daughter’s “strikingly blue eyes.” Her husband’s indifferent reply of “Cool” prompted the reflective question and, in turn, … Read more
“If you insist on staying, then you will have to adapt” — these were the words uttered by a bespectacled elderly man, whose eerie tone was made all the more unsettling through some dramatic red key lighting, towards our supposed protagonist during the middle of a recently posted teaser trailer for Amazon’s upcoming television adaptation … Read more