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Orange Wednesday: Spider-Man – Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

17 April 2019 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

TMINE’s holiday break last week not only affected my TV viewing, it also had an effect on my movie watching, too. As a result, despite this being Orange Wednesday, I only had the time to watch one movie.

Excitingly, it was a recommendation from the TMINE-reading public, too: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, in which various, famously voiced versions of the even more famous wall-crawler come together from different dimensions to fight the notorious Kingpin, tell an origin story and reveal what it takes to be a hero.

That’s after the jump…

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Jack Dylan Grazer and Zachary Levi in Shazam!

Orange Wednesday: Shazam! (2019) and Aquaman (2018)

10 April 2019 Rob Buckley 7 Comments

It’s a bit of a superheroey week this week for Orange Wednesday, thanks mainly to release schedules rather than my superhero fanboyness. Although that’s a factor.

Up for review this week are two DC Extended Universe movies:

Aquaman (2018): Jason Momoa is half-human, half-Atlantean and all man, but must choose whether to live a quiet life or become King of Atlantis. Amber Heard helps him choose.
Shazam! (2019): Teenage foster kid gets given a magic word that turns him into the World’s Mightiest Mortal – Chuck‘s Zachary Levi in a padded suit. What will he do with his new powers?

Both of those after the jump!

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Orange Wednesday: John Wick – Chapter 2, Justice League vs The Fatal Five and Donkeyote

3 April 2019 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Every Wednesday, TMINE reviews two movies and infringes a former mobile phone company’s trademarked marketing gimmick

Time prevented me from doing Orange Wednesday last week, so to make up for it, this week, TMINE will be reviewing not two, but three movies:

John Wick – Chapter 2 (2017): In which Keanu Reeves reprises his role as terrifying hitman John Wick and acts with Laurence Fishburne for the first time since The Matrix trilogy
Justice League vs The Fatal Five (2019): animated quasi-follow-up to the original Justice League Unlimited series that sees various members of the Justice League fighting villains from the future
Donkeyote (2017): documentary in which an old man from a southern Spanish village decides to trek across the US’s ‘Trail of Tears’, accompanied by two animal companions. Guess what at least one of them is.

Now that’s a special offer, hey?

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Better Things renewed; Serbian-Croatian Bridge; CinéFrance’s Proust search; + more

27 March 2019 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Every weekday, TMINE brings you the latest TV news from around the world

Michela De Rossi joins The Many Saints of Newark

Internet TV

Karla Souza to star in Amazon’s El Presidente
Charlie Barnett to recur on Netflix’s You
Amazon developing: adaptation of Octavia E Butler’s Patternist series as Wild Seed

French TV

TF1/Netflix green light: series of real-life period tragedy drama Le Bazar de la Charité, with Audrey Fleurot, Julie De Bona, Camille Lou et al
CinéFrance Studios et al developing: adaptation of Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu as La Recherche (The Search)

European TV

RTL Croatia/RTS Serbia green light: adaptation of SVT1 (Sweden)/DR1 (Denmark)’s Bron/Broen (The Bridge)

UK TV

Trailer for BBC One’s The Victim
Hugo Speer and Amanda Burton join ITV’s Marcella

US TV

FX renews: Better Things

US TV show casting

Diggy Simmons promoted to regular on Freeform’s grown-ish
Hugh Dancy joins Showtime’s Homeland

New US TV show casting

Omar Benson Miller and Maya Lynne Robinson join CBS’s The Unicorn
Zane Holtz and Katherine LaNasa join The CW’s Katy Keene

Tin Star’s final series; Ms Fisher acquired; new Bäckström series; + more

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Film

Leslie Odom Jr joins Newark

Internet TV

Trailer for season 3 of Netflix’s Stranger Things
Trailer for Netflix’s Tijuana
Michelle Dockery and Jaeden Martell join Apple’s Defending Jacob
Anthony Mackie and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II to guest on Netflix’s Black Mirror
Netflix green lights: series of Mindy Kaling semi-autobiographical comedy

European TV

Wild Horses developing: King Richard I epic Three Lions

Scandinavian TV

C More/TV4 green light: adaptation of Leif GW Persson’s Bäckström books, with Kjell Bergqvist

UK TV

Sky Atlantic renews and cancels: Tin Star
Alibi acquires: Seven (Australia)’s Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries
Stormzy to guest on BBC One’s Noughts + Crosses
Donna Air and Ben Bailey Smith join BBC One’s The Split

US TV show casting

Kate Mulgrew, Brett Gelman and Natalie Paul to guest on Audience’s Mr Mercedes
Lizzy Caplan, Tim Robbins, Garrett Hedlund et al join Hulu’s Castle Rock

New US TV shows

OWN green lights: series of romance anthology Cherish The Day

New US TV show casting

Dorian Missick joins ABC’s criminal-cum-lawyer drama
Matt Passmore to co-star in ABC’s Triangle
Will Sasso and Christina Vidal to star in ABC’s United We Fall
Katherine Heigl to star in CBS’s Our House
Deborah S Craig joins CBS’s The Emperor of Malibu
Emma Paetz and Jessica Ellerby join Epix’s Pennyworth
Andy Garcia to star in NBC’s The Kenan Show
Saba Homayoon and Paul Chahidi to star in TBS’s Chad

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Orange Wednesday: Spider-Man – Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

Orange Wednesday: Shazam! (2019) and Aquaman (2018)

Orange Wednesday: John Wick – Chapter 2, Justice League vs The Fatal Five and Donkeyote

Every Wednesday, TMINE reviews two movies and infringes a former mobile phone company’s trademarked marketing gimmick

Better Things renewed; Serbian-Croatian Bridge; CinéFrance’s Proust search; + more

Every weekday, TMINE brings you the latest TV news from around the world

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New US TV show casting

Tin Star’s final series; Ms Fisher acquired; new Bäckström series; + more

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European TV

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New US TV shows

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