Yesterday was Daredevil day as Season 2 hit Netflix and the binge watching started. Netflix took the chance to use their platform to tease us with 25 seconds of Luke Cage footage. As of yet Netflix haven’t officially released the clip to YouTube, the player above is someone’s quick edit (and may get yanked). If […]
Articles by Andrew Girdwood
In this archive, you'll find Andrew Girdwood's recent work on TV, Geek Stuff, and Movies.
Out of my way! D20 warrior coming through!
This impressive if rather dangerous looking d20 is the work of Maverick’s Custom Monsters. Maverick makes props for movies, shows and LARPs. This d20 mace has a name. It’s Mjölnerd!
New TV spot puts Orcs vs Humans in Warcraft
Directed by Duncan Jones (Moon, Source Code) Warcraft looks like it might be a rare thing. It might be a movie of a computer game that actually works. Not only that; a fantasy computer game. Let’s not jinx it, though. This is the second TV spot for the movie which is due out in the […]
The staggering art of Joseph McLamb
Joseph McLamb has worked on titles like Hogfather (TV movie), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Avatar, Centurion, Clash of the Titans, Prince of Persia and Sherlock Holmes 2. He’s now the lead concept artist at the award winning Framestore. He shares some of his work in a gallery on his site Robot Arm and […]
Daniel Radcliffe as a magical thief in the Now You Can See Me 2 trailer
I rather liked Now You Can See Me. I went to watch it with no expectations but it worked really well. It was smartly written and different enough to be interesting. As much as I liked the original I didn’t expect there to be a sequel. There is and they’ve gone for a quirly, probably […]
X-Men: Apocalypse official trailer
We’ve not been kept wanting for sneak peaks at Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Apocalypse and, to be honest, I thought we’d pretty much finished with the full length official trailer releases. I was wrong. The latest, official and two-and-half minutes fat, really spells out what’s going on. The god-like Apocalypse is on the way and the […]
Competition: Win your very own Hermione Granger Pop Vinyl
There’s a Harry Potter collection of Pop Vinyl’s in Funko’s Fantasy Movie Series. That means you can have a range of Hogwarts characters on your desk, lurking on your bookcase or as part of your growing Pop collection. At the time of writing, you can pre-order Hermione from Pop in a Box for about £10 […]
Writing cliché free material for gaming worlds: An interview with Maurice Broaddus
Maurice Broaddus is an author based out of Indianapolis and known for his urban fantasy trilogy, The Knights of Breton Court, and has written for the Firefly RPG, the Marvel RPG and Leverage RPG. Broaddus has an impressive stash of over 20,000 comic books in his attic and grew up playing D&D, Palladium RPGs and […]
Awkward! When your GM forgets to buy a wedding card
Reddit user ieatkittens shared this set of two sketches. The problem? Their GM has forgotten to buy a wedding card. As it happens, ieatkittens claims to have had some problems with the all important dice roll. Comment byu/ieatkittens from discussion infunny
The Pride hardcover collections to Kickstarter
There are gay superhero franchies but they’re hardly common and few as successful as The Pride. Joe Glass has taken to Kickstarter to put together a hardcover collection. At the time of writing there’s nearly a month left on the Kickstarter and a target of £13,000 to hit. You can follow progress here. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/131616880/the-pride-vol-1-hardcover-collection-lgbtq-superhe [Back […]
