Review: The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield (Vol. 6) – Lost in Translation

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Review by Jacob Licklider

Mild spoilers!

The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield is one of those Big Finish ranges which slips under the radar of quite a lot of people. Bernice Summerfield is one of those characters who has a big role in the greater Doctor Who universe, as the companion most associated with the Virgin New Adventures range of novels and the character which gave Big Finish Productions their start. Benny’s own range has been running since 1998 through eleven series of single releases and five box sets before being rebranded in a box set series of ‘New Adventures’; fitting considering where the character came from. The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield has been releasing one box set each year since 2014, with a small hiatus in 2018 to celebrate 20 years of Big Finish by reviving the classic range. 2016’s The Unbound Universe took Benny out of her universe while 2017’s Ruler of the Universe brought the character and the David Warner Doctor, right back into our universe. Now, two volumes later, Big Finish are finally dealing with the fallout in Lost in Translation, as Benny and the Doctor spend a set on the run from the Time Lords who have deemed the Doctor an aberration, unfit to exist. Continue reading →

‘Black Widow’ release pushed back to 2021

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Disney have announced more release date changes, and has confirmed that for the time being no tiles are heading to Disney+ instead of theaters like they did recently with Mulan. And that includes Pixar’s Soul which is currently sticking to its Nov. 20 release against MGM’s No Time To Die.

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Trailer released for Amazon Prime ‘Truth Seekers’ series

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Amazon Prime Video today released the official trailer and launch date for the Amazon Original series, Truth Seekers. The eight-episode paranormal comedy series will launch on Prime Video on Friday 30th October worldwide, just in time for Halloween.

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Star Wars ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ art director passes away

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We are sad to report the death of film Art Director Alan Tomkins. Tomkins was the art director for Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back. His work on the film earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Art Direction. Throughout an incredible career in film Tomkins art directed and contributed to films such as Batman Begins, A Bridge Too Far, JFK, Saving Private Ryan, Die Another Day, Natural Born Killers and Disney’s 101 Dalmations as well as numerous assisting art direction/draughtsmen credits including A View To A Kill, From Russia With Love and work on Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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Review: Doctor Who – The Flying Dutchman / Displaced

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Review by Jacob Licklider

Big Finish Production’s decision to go back to earlier story arcs and TARDIS teams for some of their Main Range releases has often been a stroke of genius; it allows listeners to experience
teams whose stories are over for a burst of nostalgia and partaking in the age old tradition of the missing adventure. September’s Main Range duo-logy is one of these; reuniting Sylvester McCoy’s Seventh Doctor with Sophie Aldred’s Ace and Philip Olivier’s Hex for some adventures early in the team’s run of adventures from two writers new to Big Finish. Gemma Arrowsmith and Katharine Armitage provide their first Doctor Who stories with The Flying Dutchman and Displaced.

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‘Harley Quinn’ animated series gets third season.

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DC Animated show ‘Harley Quinn’ has been renewed for a third season on HBO Max. The series was previously on the now discontinued DC Universe. The news comes as Warner Bros officially announced Friday that DC Universe will no longer be home to scripted original series and will instead transition to solely a comic book subscription service called DC Universe Infinite.

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Robert Pattinson returns to filming for ‘The Batman’

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Robert Pattinson has been cleared to return to filming ‘The Batman’ again after his positive COVID-19 test brought production on the comic book movie to a standstill. The studio has never confirmed the identity of the person with the positive test and did not reveal any information about Pattinson’s condition or if anyone else on the production tested positive. Representatives for Pattinson also never acknowledged that he had contracted the virus, though Variety confirmed an initial report in Vanity Fair that the actor had COVID-19.

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Original Star Wars actress passes away

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Original Star Wars actress Penny McCarthy has passed away.

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Marvel considering new ‘Black Widow’ release date.

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Warner Bros.’ domestic box office for Tenet, which only made $6.7M in its second stateside weekend (technically 3rd) is an indicator of this, of course, with New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco closures being a further stumbling block. As such, exhibition sources told Deadline that Disney is pondering a theatrical release date move for Black Widow off its current Nov. 6 date. There’s no concrete idea of where it goes, whether its somewhere in December or next year yet. It could easily move to Marvel’s The Eternals release date of Feb. 12 next year.

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Trailer released for ‘The Mandalorian’ Season 2

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A trailer for the new season Disney Plus Star Wars show The Mandalorian has been released.

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