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Warning! This post contains Spoilers for Creature Commandos episode 3, "Cheers To The Tin Man"Creature Commandos episode 3 features a collection of exciting Easter eggs and references. While the new episode is predominantly focused on G.I. Robot and his origins, there's also some key connection to the new Dcu at large beyond the automated soldier and his fellow monsters that make up Amanda Waller's Task Force M. This includes some major teams, locations, and some of the weirdest DC characters of all time becoming canon.

As seen in Creature Commandos episode 3, the origins of G.I. Robot are explored, particularly his time during WWII and after when the United States no longer had a purpose for an automated Nazi-killing soldier. Exploring how he came to one of Amanda Waller's operatives, the journey and ultimate fate of G.I. Robot is as tragic as it is exciting considering his connection to the greater Dcu.

Warning! This post contains Spoilers for Creature Commandos episode 3, "Cheers To The Tin Man"

Creature Commandos episode 3 is all about the origins of G.I. Robot. An automated soldier desperate to kill Nazis, G.I. Robot (Sean Gunn) is one of Task Force M's oldest and most interesting members. As such, the ending of Creature Commandos episode 3 is as exciting as it is tragic for the wartime mechanical hero.

As seen in Creature Commandos episodes 1 & 2, Task Force M was given orders to protect the princess of Pokolistan from the Amazonian sorceress Circe. However, The Bride (Indira Varma) and Nina Mazursky (Zoë Chao) left in the night to visit the remains of Frankenstein Manor (where the Bride was born). Following a battle with Circe at the manor, the rest of Task Force M was on their way to save their fellow monster recruits. To that end, here's a recap of what...

Warning: This article includes Major Spoilers for Wicked: Part 1, Wicked: Part 2, and the Broadway musical.

Some of the best moments from the Wicked Broadway musical will appear in Wicked: Part 2, increasing anticipation for the 2025 movie. Given the stage show’s incredible two-decade legacy, audiences went into Wicked: Part 1 with high expectations. Luckily, the show rose above and beyond in terms of acting, cinematography, and choreography. However, the movie cuts off at “Defying Gravity” because Wicked is releasing in two parts.

Consequently, Wicked’s story is far from over. The second act of the Broadway musical lasts around one hour, but the movie will certainly have a longer runtime, allowing it to expand upon the story from the source material. Fortunately, Wicked: Part 2 will include fantastic moments from the musical that bring this epic tale to a climactic ending.

Glinda Becomes The Figurehead For The Wizard’s Administration Glinda Is Given...

Warning! This post contains Spoilers for WickedAlthough Wicked is prominently focused on the relationship between Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) and Glinda (Ariana Grande), The Wizard of Oz' Dorothy does have a small cameo. Despite being the main character in The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy's time in the spotlight is quite limited in 2024's Wicked, and the same is true in the original Broadway musical production with a very small spotlight. However, her presence is no less crucial to Wicked's overall narrative.

The leading protagonist in The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy Gale finds herself in the Land of Oz after surviving a Kansas twister. After walking down the Yellow Brick Road and making new friends along the way, Dorothy is tasked with defeating the Wicked Witch of the West at the request of The Wizard. However, Wicked provides an alternate retelling of what really happened in Oz before Dorothy's arrival and...

The musical Wicked serves as a prequel to The Wizard of Oz, but the 2024 movie adaptation doubles as an homage to the 1939 classic with several carefully placed Easter eggs. Of course, with an overlapping setting and characters, there are many overt features of The Wizard of Oz in the new on-screen adaptation. The Wicked Witch, her green skin and pointed hat, as well as her powers and melty fate, are, of course, at the center of Wicked, along with Glinda the Good, the Wizard of Oz himself, and more. However, the musical adaptation managed to hide far more stealthy references here and there.

The 1939 The Wizard of Oz movie was groundbreaking for its time and is still remembered as a significant milestone in Hollywood magic today. It has long served as the nostalgic foundation for the stage musical Wicked, which is a prequel in its first act while the second...

Plot: The origin story of the so-called Wicked Witch of the West. While the citizens of Oz are celebrating her death, Glinda the Good (Ariana Grande) remembers how the two started out as friends while they were roommates at Shiz University and learning their magical craft.

Review: First – I must make a confession: I’ve never seen Wicked on stage. Heck, not being a particular enthusiast of Broadway musicals, I would be hard-pressed to name one song from the popular soundtrack, or even really explain anything beyond the fact that it’s supposed to be a deconstruction of The Wizard of Oz. Yet, the play is a full-on phenomenon, with the movie (the first of two) set to become a blockbuster when it comes out later this week. While some may raise eyebrows at the fact and say that JoBlo should have had a fan watch the movie instead, I...

While they may not be as popular as the TV show, Doctor Whos movies are still interesting to watch. Since Doctor Whos first broadcast in 1963, three films from the franchise have also been released, each of which features an iconic villain.

While these titles arent necessarily the greatest Doctor Who stories of all time, they are still appealing to avid watchers of the iconic sci-fi series. They are each a product of their time, but they also offer things that the upcoming Doctor Who season 15 could learn from, too.

Dr. Who And The Daleks (1965) Peter Cushing Takes On The Role Of The Doctor

Dr. Who and the Daleks

Director Gordon FlemyngRelease Date July 1, 1966Writers Milton SubotskyCast Gary Wyler, Virginia Tyler, Ken Garady, Mark Peterson, Bruce Wells, Yvonne Antrobus, Jane Lumb, Jack Waters, Barrie Ingham, Jennie Linden, Sharon Young, Geoffrey Toone, Roy Castle, Michael Coles, Nicholas Head, Martin Grace, Roberta Tovey,...

60 years is a long time. For us, if not for the Doctor, who can pass six decades in a single blink and once spent over four billion years trapped inside a coaster. For those of us on Earth though, 60 years is a very long time to have been a part of things, to have been loved and argued about and mourned and revived and then loved and argued about even more.

To celebrate Doctor Who’s miraculous longevity, below are 60 moments from its lifetime that mark it out as something special. Rather than talking about full episodes, stories or seasons, here we’re looking at individual scenes, ideas or images from the show, as well as ephemera surrounding Doctor Who: a cultural moment, a slice of life, a shared experience. This could range from toys to songs to UGNs (Unexpected Graham Nortons).

There are countless to choose from. There are countless perspectives to consider.

To mark the release of Dr Terror’s House of Horrors, out now, we’ve been given 2 copies to give away on Blu-ray.

Dr. Terror (Peter Cushing) is a mysterious fortune teller who boards a train to tell fellow passengers their fortune with tarot cards. Five possible futures unfold: an architect returns to his ancestral home to find a werewolf out for revenge; a huge flesh-eating vine takes over a house; a musician gets involved with voodoo; an art critic is pursued by a disembodied hand and a doctor discovers his new wife is a vampire. But they all end in the same result…Death! A fascinating and fast paced example of portmanteau filmmaking with a deadly twist in the tale….

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Filmed in glorious Technicolor, these imaginative 1960s instalments focused on the much-loved baddies, with Peter Cushing’s Doctor in Edwardian-inventor mode

Some Whovian retro thrills are on offer here with the re-release of the two quasi-canonical Doctor Who feature films of the 1960s: Dr Who and the Daleks from 1965, and Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150 Ad the following year. These were Technicolor adventures brought to the British public by the American writer-producer Milton Subotsky under his Amicus Productions banner, known more for horror. They were adapted from existing TV plotlines and capitalised on the runaway popularity of the sinister Daleks, with their hysterically enraged metallic voices and their strange arm-pieces: all Daleks were issued with the weapon arm to zap people, but for the second, some had a claw-type grabber and others had the sink-plunger thing whose purpose is not shown here.

Peter Cushing is the Doctor, very much in the William Hartnell mode: an elegant,...

Last month saw a clutch of cult British sci-fi TV added to the UK’s Britbox streaming service under the ‘Out of this World’ banner. From Thursday the 10th of September, a choice crop of new additions will be joining the likes of The Prisoner, Space 1999, Sapphire and Steel, UFO and the selection of Gerry Anderson treats already available.

Coming to Britbox in the UK will be all four seasons of Terry Nation’s Blake’s 7 plus all three seasons of Nation’s post-apocalyptic Survivors joining at the later date of Thursday the 17th of September. There’ll also be 1967’s Quatermass and the Pit, plus a good portion of 1961’s The Avengers, Hammer’s 1966 One Million Years BC, with the terrific, weird Nic Roeg/David Bowie film The Man Who Fell to Earth thrown in for good measure.

Doctor Who-wise, UK subscribers will be able to stream 1965 Peter Cushing...

Welcome my friends, to the stories that always end…usually in a tidy 15 or 20 minutes to be precise. Yes, we’re back in anthology land with a title that became Amicus’ modus operandi (and money makers) for the next decade, Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors (1965). While this isn’t my favorite Amicus omnibus (it’s still good!), it is their first and credit shall be paid.

Released Stateside in late February by Paramount, Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors did very well with audiences, giving Amicus a reliable hook for their future releases; while they didn’t focus solely on portmanteaus (they released The Skull the same year), those did become what they were known for.

And rightly so; Dr. Terror sets up a formula that works: well known horror actors in short bursts of terror and humor, easy to digest. This one starts us off on a British passenger train...

In the realm of quintessentially British pop culture staples, few have quite the sheer amount of content as Doctor Who. For over fifty years, the escapades of the time-traveling Doctor and his many companions have delighted audiences the world over, spanning countless serials, TV episodes, audio dramas, comic books, and novels. Unfortunately, when it comes to cinema, the good Doctor is a lot less prolific.

Despite many, many studio attempts (covered in the wonderful Now on the Big Screen by Charles Norton), only three adaptations of Doctor Who ever made it to film. The Canadian TV movie Doctor Who in the ’90s, starring Paul McGann as the 8th Doctor, is commonly agreed to be a weak oddity, but that’s not what this article is about. Because in the mid-60s, the British horror studio Amicus Pictures got Peter Cushing, one of the greatest horror actors ever, to step in...

Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing costar in a worthwhile horror attraction -- and for once even share some scenes. Amicus gives us five tales of the uncanny, each with a clever twist or sting in its tail. Creepy mountebank Cushing deals the Tarot cards that spell out the grim fates in store; Chris Lee is a pompous art critic wih a handy problem. Also with Michael Gough and introducing a young Donald Sutherland. Dr. Terror's House of Horrors Blu-ray Olive Films 1965 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 98 min. / Street Date October 27, 2015 / available through the Olive Films website / 29.98 <Starring Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Michael Gough, Donald Sutherland, Alan Freeman, Max Adrian, Roy Castle, Ursula Howells, Neil McCallum, Bernard Lee, Jennifer Jayne, Jeremy Kemp, Harold Lang, Katy Wild, Isla Blair, Al Mulock. Cinematography Alan Hume Film Editor Thelma Cornell Original Music Elizabeth Lutyens Written by Milton Subotsky Produced by Max Rosenberg, Milton Subotsky Directed by...

Digital Spy presents Doctor Who Week - seven days of special features celebrating the return of the world's favourite sci-fi series, and the arrival of a brand new Doctor on August 23.

"Allow me to introduce myself. I am Dr. Who."

Dr Who. Daleks - Invasion Earth: 2150 Ad (1966)

As far as odd surnames go, 'Who' has to be up there. But that's just one of many examples where the treatment of the subject matter differs between the two 1960s Doctor Who movie spinoffs and their original TV counterparts. Made to capitalise on the rampant 'Dalekmania' and starring Peter Cushing as the time traveller, a contemporary re-viewing provides a fascinating trip back to a comparatively innocent era where the draw of seeing "motorised dustbins" from Skaro in widescreen Technicolor was a big selling point.

William Hartnell's grouchy alien and his maladjusted granddaughter Susan from the BBC series have been replaced by...

Digital Spy presents Doctor Who Week - seven days of special features celebrating the return of the world's favourite sci-fi series, and the arrival of a brand new Doctor on August 23.

"Allow me to introduce myself. I am Dr. Who."

Dr Who. Daleks - Invasion Earth: 2150 Ad (1966)

As far as odd surnames go, 'Who' has to be up there. But that's just one of many examples where the treatment of the subject matter differs between the two 1960s Doctor Who movie spinoffs and their original TV counterparts. Made to capitalise on the rampant 'Dalekmania' and starring Peter Cushing as the time traveller, a contemporary re-viewing provides a fascinating trip back to a comparatively innocent era where the draw of seeing "motorised dustbins" from Skaro in widescreen Technicolor was a big selling point.

William Hartnell's grouchy alien and his maladjusted granddaughter Susan from the BBC series have been replaced by...

1976 saw the publication of John Brosnan’s excellent book The Horror People. Written during the summer of 1975, it makes interesting reading 40 years down the line. Those who feature prominently in the book – Peter Cushing, Vincent Price, Jack Arnold, Michael Carreras, Sam Arkoff, Roy Ward Baker, Freddie Francis, Robert Bloch, Richard Matheson and Milton Subotsky – were still alive, as were Ralph Bates, Mario Bava, Jimmy Carreras, John Carradine, Dan Curtis, John Gilling, Robert Fuest, Michael Gough, Val Guest, Ray Milland, Robert Quarry and Michael Ripper, all of whom were given a mention. Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Junior, Michael Reeves and James H Nicholson were not long dead. Hammer, Amicus and American International Pictures were still in existence. George A Romero had yet to achieve his prominence and Stephen King wasn’t even heard of!

Brosnan devoted a chapter to a new British company called Tyburn Films. Founded by the charismatic and ambitious Kevin Francis,...

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In the next part of his series, Alex talks us through the film careers of the second and fourth Doctors, Patrick Troughton and Tom Baker...

Read Alex's retrospective on the film careers of William Hartnell and Jon Pertwee, here.

Like their fellow Time Lord actors, William Hartnell and Jon Pertwee, Patrick Troughton and Tom Baker also shared certain genres of film. Both appeared, before and after their time as the Doctor, in horror movies and both worked on Ray Harryhausen Sinbad films.

Patrick George Troughton was born in Mill Hill, London on March 25th 1920. He made his film debut aged 28 in the 1948 B-Movie The Escape. Troughton's was a very minor role. Among the better known cast was William Hartnell, though even Hartnell's role was small and the two didn't share any scenes together. From the late Forties, Troughton found more success on the small screen,...

It may be the Day of the Doctor, but over on Channel 5, at 10.05am on Saturday, they are giving Peter Cushing's 1965 film an airing. Was it as bad as we remember?

'I don't know where we are' – Dr Who

Today, as you might have noticed, is the Day of the Doctor. Doctor Who's 50th anniversary is here, and it's an event on an unprecedented scale. A special episode – an extended, all-star, 3D special episode – is being shown around the world tonight, on TV and in cinemas, as the cherry on top of an almighty celebration. The Doctor, in all his incarnations, has become a true treasure.

Well, almost all his incarnations. While we're all gasping and cheering and hiding behind our sofas at whatever Steven Moffat has planned for us tonight, Dr Who and the Daleks – the non-canon Peter Cushing feature film from 1965 – is kicking its heels over...

Actor, comedian, musician and all-round legend Bernard Cribbins OBE has the unique distinction of being the only actor to have faced Doctor Who's most enduring villains the Daleks on the big and small screen...

His first brush with the fearsome pepper-pots - 1966 film Daleks - Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. - is available to enjoy on DVD and Blu-ray from today (May 27), alongside its predecessor, 1965's Dr Who and the Daleks.

To mark the release, Digital Spy spoke with Cribbins about his movie co-star Peter Cushing, Aussie Daleks and his return to the show alongside David Tennant's Time Lord...

How did you first get involved with the world of Doctor Who in Daleks - Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.?

"I honestly can't remember! The connection, as far as I recall, was probably Peter Cushing himself - he'd done one Dalek film with Roy Castle and I'd worked with Peter on another film,...

Actor, comedian, musician and all-round legend Bernard Cribbins OBE has the unique distinction of being the only actor to have faced Doctor Who's most enduring villains the Daleks on the big and small screen...

His first brush with the fearsome pepper-pots - 1966 film Daleks - Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. - is available to enjoy on DVD and Blu-ray from today (May 27), alongside its predecessor, 1965's Dr Who and the Daleks.

To mark the release, Digital Spy spoke with Cribbins about his movie co-star Peter Cushing, Aussie Daleks and his return to the show alongside David Tennant's Time Lord...

How did you first get involved with the world of Doctor Who in Daleks - Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.?

"I honestly can't remember! The connection, as far as I recall, was probably Peter Cushing himself - he'd done one Dalek film with Roy Castle and I'd worked with Peter on another film,...

Five strangers board a train and are joined by a mysterious fortune teller who offers to read their tarot cards. Each man has a different story to tell including an architect who returns to his ancestral home to find a werewolf out for revenge, a doctor who finds out his wife is a vampire, a huge plant which traps the occupants of a house inside, a musician who gets involved in voodoo and an art critic who is tormented by the severed hand of a famous artist.

As with many of my other reviews for Amicus films, I always start off with the point that they tried to rival Hammer as far as British horror went but never really managed to compete consistently with them. However they did find their niche in the genre, in particular the horror anthology. Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors is their best one and...

Dame Judi Dench has teamed up with a U.K. charity to warn about the dangers of smoking, after losing her husband to lung cancer.

The veteran actress was left devastated when her partner of 30 years, Michael Williams, died of the disease in 2001.

And Dench is backing The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation's Women Against Lung Cancer campaign to raise awareness of symptoms associated with the illness.

She says, "As a woman who has lost her husband to lung cancer, this is a campaign close to my heart.

"I would urge women who smoke to consider giving up or to be vigilant to the symptoms and see their doctor as early as possible if they have any concerns."...

Unleash your funny side, listen to Mike Tyson and, most importantly, get typing...

Well, you've only gone and got yourself a Twitter account, Gwyneth Paltrow (@gwynethpaltrow). Obviously not content with being a mere Oscar-winner, internet lifestyle impresario, celebrity chef, Cee Lo Green tribute act, and queen of all things mung bean, you have decided to add "Twitter guru" to your CV. Sadly your first tweet ("This is my first Tweet!") didn't exactly set the world alight. You need to knuckle down, Gwynie.

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Keep the serious stuff for your lifestyle blog, Goop, Twitter is all about the jokes. Luckily you seem to have a handle on this. When it was reported that you were looking for a tutor for your children who could teach Ancient Greek, Latin, French, Japanese and Mandarin, on top of giving sailing and tennis lessons, you responded with: "Looking for tutor for kids. $195K per day.

Coronation Street and EastEnders have been criticised for failing to show the consequences of smoking. Anti-smoking campaigners Action on Smoking and Health (Ash) and The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation have claimed that heavy smokers like Weatherfield's Deirdre Barlow (Anne Kirkbride) and Walford's Dot Cotton (June Brown) are sending out the wrong messages to viewers. Ash's Amanda Sandford has now called on both soaps to introduce lung cancer storylines in order to properly educate fans about the dangers of cigarettes. "The level of smoking on-screen is a cause for serious concern and a message needs to be sent out to the younger audience regarding the consequences," Sandford told the Daily Star Sunday. "For Dot and Deirdre to get something like lung cancer would have a massive effect on the (more)...