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More racism and monsters: Lovecraft Country

June 3, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Lovecraft Country is the story of Atticus Freeman searching for his father in a part of America infested by racists and other monsters.

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Lovecraft Country: Racism and monsters

May 3, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The series is based off the 2016 novel Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff. I think a trip from book to TV in less than four years is pretty impressive.

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They fly now: A first clip from The Rise of Skywalker

November 25, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s a short clip, but it is a clip from the concluding episode of the Star Wars saga.

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Check out the Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker poster

August 24, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We’ve Rey (Daisy Ridley) and Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) locked in melee, lightsabers in action and the looming face in the background very much appears to be Darth Sidious (Ian McDiarmid), better known as Emperor Palpatine.

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Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill included in Star Wars IX cast

July 27, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

J.J. Abrams has announced the cast list for the next episode of Star Wars. The official release lists confirms the return of Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Lupita Nyong’o, Domhnall Gleeson, Kelly Marie Tran, Joonas Suotamo, and Billie Lourd. Also, for Episode IX, Naomi Ackie and Richard E. Grant will be joined […]

Filed Under: Movies Tagged With: J. J. Abrams, Mark Hamill, Oscar Isaac, princess leia, richard e grant, star wars

J.J. Abrams surprises the world with Cloverfield sequel: 10 Cloverfield Lane

January 15, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This trailer is for 10 Cloverfield Lane. Is it a sequel? Abrams describes it as a blood relative of Cloverfield. It looks tense. What’s outside? Actress Mary Elizabeth, who stars alongside John Goodman and John Gallagher Jr, gave Collider some insight into what her character was told; “He tells me that basically the world is […]

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Revealed: The Batmobile on the Millennium Falcon

September 19, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Make of this what you will. This is the official YouTube account of Bad Robot. Bad Robot Productions is new Star Wars director J.J. Abrams’ company. What we see is the first reveal of the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars. It looks old, a little battered but otherwise robust and in good shape. We pan […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: batman, humour, J. J. Abrams, Millennium Falcon, star wars

Bad Robot meets Chewbacca for BadWookiee

May 19, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This foot tall, hand stitched, work of geeky art is the creation of Helen Greenstein. You can buy it too; $2,300. Do you recognise the shape? This is the Bad Robot from J.J. Abrams’s Bad Robot Productions. Given that Abrams is off to make the next three Star Wars films a Chewbacca Bad Robot mashup […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: chewbacca, J. J. Abrams, star wars

Full-sized Millennium Falcon already built for Star Wars VII?

November 29, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

“A full-scale 1:1 Millennium Falcon has been built as well as the interiors of the ship for filming,” “The Falcon is done – inside and out. The sets were built off-site, ready to move when Lucasfilm/Bad Robot were ready to move into Pinewood.” This quote comes from a Yahoo report on a rumour that the […]

Filed Under: Movies Tagged With: J. J. Abrams, Millennium Falcon, star wars

Star Trek: Countdown to Darkness review

May 26, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

You can preview Star Trek: Countdown to Darkness here in an earlier post on Geek Native. Star Trek: Countdown to Darkness was overseen by the Star Trek movie writer Roberto Orci, was written by Mike Johnson and illustrated by David Messina. It began life as a four part comic book series in the run up […]

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: J. J. Abrams, Mike Johnson, star trek, star trek into darkness

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