This trailer popped up online while I was out of the country a week ago. In that time it’s had over 1,000,000 watches. This suggests Netflix is on to a winner with its set of four superhero series. Daredevil, perhaps because of the movie rather than despite it, may be the strongest of the titles. […]
What was it like? MCM Scotland Comic Con 2014
This was the second ever MCM Scotland Comic Con and my second time going. The big difference was in the size of the venue. Still housed in the SECC but in a much larger hall, MCM had enough space to create a table and chair area, serve food from within the hall and look after […]
Netflix secures Gotham
Here I was worrying that Gotham would roll out on an American cable network and may never get any further than that. Warner Bros’s worldwide television department have announced a deal with Netflix that will take the series across the sea. From 2015, each season of the series will be made available to Netflix members […]
Cleverly layered: A Knights of Sidonia anime review
The Knights of Sidonia is the first anime I’ve watched on Netflix. One of the reasons I wanted to watch it was to encourage Netflix to buy in more – and they did do the heavy lifting on this one. The other reason was that the Knights of Sidonia looked like an interesting but relatively […]
Knights of Sidonia trailers ahead of Netflix launch
On the 4th of July Netflix will launch Tsutomu Nihei’s Knights of Sidonia. It’s very good to see Netflix getting deeper into anime. The on demand stream gets the series “firstly and exclusively” in Japanese audio with English subs and with local language dubbing. This is a sci-fi set after mankind has fled Earth to […]
Knights of Sidonia trailers
Humans fled Earth a thousand years ago after it was destroyed by the shapeshifting giant monsters called Gauna. It’s not known what happened to the massive spaceships the last of mankind took to as they lost contact with one another and were chased by the Gauna. Sidonia is one such craft. It’s protected by large […]
Daredevil, Iron Fist, Luke Cage and Jessica Jones TV shows all coming to Netflix
Marvel has announced a multiple, original, live-action adventure superhero shows will come to TV – via Netflix. The first series will be Daredevil. Jessica Jones, Iron Fist and then Luke Cage. We’re told the original programs will take Netflix members into the gritty world of heroes and villains of Hell’s Kitchen, New York and that […]
J. Michael Straczynski partners with the Wachowskis for Sense8
Netflix continues its clever strategy of creating its own content and has branched out to sci-fi. The company has appointed J. Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5, Jeremiah) with the Wachowskis (The Matrix trilogy) for a sci-fi series called Sense8. It’ll be a part 10 series described as “a gripping global tale of minds linked and souls […]
