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Martin Kemp knows Dublin well, but his son Roman has barely ventured beyond Belfast, so the pair are heading out on the road to see more of Ireland together. Starting in County Cork, their trip takes in everything from the folklore surrounding the Banshee Queen to a visit to Spike Island, the former prison known…

Houston’s Third Planet Comics has amassed a huge following over the years.Jamil David/Chron

The 1979 cycling movie, “Breaking Away,” may have won an Oscar, but when it came time to make a TV spin-off, repeating success was not as easy as riding a bike. ABC aired a prequel series of the same name in 1980, but it never caught on despite decent reviews, and was quickly cancelled. The movie was…

After launching back in July on the Xbox Series (and after launching on Steam last year), it’ll be the PlayStation 5‘s turn to experience Binary Lunar‘s psychological horror title Nightmare Shift later this week. Drawing on films in the style of Lee Kwon‘s 2018 Korean film Door Lock, Nightmare Shift will launch on Sony’s console…

Ben Edlund initially created his superhero character the Tick as a mascot for a comic book store chain in 1986. The Tick is a tall, muscular dude with a tiny tick-like antennae, extraordinary strength, and an all-blue costume. He’s also seemingly indestructible, which is a handy super-ability to have when you’re as whimsically clownish at…

Plenty of new games have landed on PlayStation Plus recently and one is a beat-em-up any ‘90s kid ought to play. The best part is it’ll hardly eat up any of your storage space.

For most comic collectors, their holy grail is owning one of the classic Marvel first appearances of the silver age, the books that created and helped define the Marvel Universe as we know it today. With prices ever-climbing on these iconic mega-keys, many of these same collectors have accepted that owning one – especially in…

Welcome to your end-of-week roundup of everything new on Netflix US! As we head into the second week of August, Netflix has cooled down just a bit from its massive first-of-the-month drop, but still delivered a very solid batch of 42 new releases (26 movies and 16 series) over the past seven days. Here’s what’s…

Every day, TVLine’s What to Watch column spotlights new and returning English-language shows (and select movies) premiering or airing fresh episodes across broadcast, cable and streaming — organized by release time and alphabetically within each slot.

Since his 1962 debut, Spider-Man has been Marvel Comics’ flagship hero. His powers, origin, and morality are baked into the world’s pop cultural consciousness, cemented by innumerable big and small screen adaptations. Virtually anyone can tell you that Peter Parker was bitten by a radioactive spider, gaining the proportional strength and agility of a spider…