Ultimate LEGO Sets We Want Made
If you're a fan of all things square, you'll do doubt have got all hot and bothered by the leaked pictures of LEGO's rumoured 1960s Bat-Cave set, which includes the iconic Batmobile from the TV show, a huge chunk of Wayne Manor and minifigs all of your favourite heroes and villains. It's definitely top of our must-buy list when it finally comes out, but it got us thinking - if we were LEGO designers, what ultimate sets would we build? Alex, Krupa and Gav share their visions on this week's podcast, and if you have your own ideas then drop us an email at the address below.
Making a Murderer is also a hot topic, plus we discuss where it all went wrong with the latest Sherlock.
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The 2016 BAFTA Nominations Have Been Announced
This year's BAFTA nominations have been announced.
Bridge of Spies and Carol both lead the pack with nine nominations apiece. The Revenant follows close behind with eight, with Mad Max: Fury Road on seven, and Brooklyn and The Martian both on six.
The Big Short, The Danish Girl, and Ex Machina all have five, while Star Wars: The Force Awakens receives four nominations in the categories of music, production design, sound, and special effects.
The EE British Academy Film Awards will take place on Sunday, February 14.
A full list of all nominees follows:
- The Big Short
- Bridge of SSpies
- Carol
- The Revenant
CES 2016: Dell to Offer Discounted Oculus Rift PC Bundles starting at $1600
Palmer Luckey’s original estimate of a PC and Oculus Rift bundle costing $1500 wasn’t too far off the mark. Tonight, Dell and Oculus announced a partnership that would bundle the Rift with an Alienware PC starting at $1600. For that you get the recommended hardware to run the Rift and the Rift headset, of course.
Oculus will be slashing $200 off the price of its $600 virtual reality headset when bundled with the Alienware X51 and Dell XPS 8900 desktop computers, both of which start around $1199. For gamers who don’t have the recommended specs to support the Rift, these bundles are a great deal.
CES 2016: Alienware Unveils World’s First OLED Gaming Laptop
Alienware announced the world’s first gaming laptop featuring an OLED display. OLED offers a few distinct advantages over the traditional LCD panels found in notebooks and monitors like deeper blacks since there’s no need for a backlight and lower latency. In fact, Alienware claims OLED enables the display to have a one millisecond refresh rate.
While OLED screens have been seen in smaller devices like cellphones and even non-gaming laptops, Alienware is the first to market with an OLED gaming laptop with the display technology. OLED panels used to be prohibitively expensive in larger sizes but they're finally affordable enough to be placed in laptops like the Alienware.
XXX 3 Adds Vampire Diaries’ Nina Dobrev and 2 More Actresses
xXx 3 is set to cast a trio of actresses, including The Vampire Diaries’ Nina Dobrev.
Orange Is the New Black star Ruby Rose and Bollywood star Deepika Padukone are also reportedly in talks to join the sequel, tentatively titled xXx: The Return of Xander Cage, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Nina Dobrev (seen here in The Vampire Diaries)
The White House Responds to Making a Murderer Petition
Spoilers for Netflix's Making a Murderer ahead.
The White House has responded to a petition calling for the imprisoned subject of Netflix's Making a Murderer documentary series, Steven Avery, to gain a presidential pardon.
The 170,000-plus signature strong petition called for President Obama to free Avery, who was convicted for the murder of Teresa Halbach back in 2007. Avery and his nephew Brendan Dassey were the central focus of the popular Netflix series, which posed a lot of troubling questions around the nature of their convictions.
“Thank you for signing a We the People petition on the Teresa Halbach murder case, currently featured on the Making a Murderer documentary series,” reads the statement from the White House. It then goes on to explain that President Obama cannot pardon state prisoners.
Thor: Ragnarok: Cate Blanchett Not a Certainty
While Cate Blanchett was reportedly in talks to play the villain in Thor: Ragnarok, it appears the actress isn't a lock for the upcoming Marvel film, but would "love" to be involved.
"I don’t know what I’m going to do, actually," Blanchett told USA Today backstage at the Palm Springs International Film Festival Gala. "After every film, you think: 'OK, I’m done, I’m done now, that’s enough.'"
When asked specifically about starring in Ragnarok, Blanchett said she "would love that," adding with a smile that she'd "love to get fit and punch people." The identity of the film's rumored villainess is still a mystery, though, Amora the Enchantress or Hela the Goddess of Death are likely possibilities.
No End for the Walking Dead Planned; AMC Open to More Spinoffs
AMC's executives are "not actively talking about the end of The Walking Dead," the network announced. In an interview with Vulture, AMC network chief Charlie Collier and programming president Joe Stillerman opened up about the future of the series.
"The answer to how long the show will go on in some way is directly correlated with the health of the storytelling in the comics," Stillerman said. And the comics are doing well with creator Robert Kirkman at the helm—"he still writes every line of dialogue in those books."
"He sort of felt like, in real life, this goes on for a very long time. We're along for that ride."
TBS’ Angie Tribeca Spoofs Cop Shows, Naked Gun-Style
Today at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour, the cast and producers of TBS' new Naked Gun-style comedy series, Angie Tribeca, appeared for a Q&A session - including husband/wife co-creators Steve and Nancy Carell, and star Rashida Jones.
Steve Carell spoke first about the idea behind Angie Tribeca - which stars Jones, Hayes MacArthur, Justified's Jere Burns, and Deon Cole as members of the LAPD's elite RHCU (Really Heinous Crimes Unit) - and how it all stems from the name "Angie Tribeca" itself, which he and Nancy came up with one day. "The name just made us laugh," he revealed. "And we sort of built the character based on the name and it expanded over time. And we created this world of who this detective would be."