Ben Travis

1 week ago | standard.co.uk | Ben Travis |William Mata

Doctor Who is back this weekend – with the rebooted show’s fifteenth season set to air on BBC 1 from this Saturday. Ncuti Gatwa is rumoured to be leaving the show but has been on the media trail this week to promote the show ahead of its 20th anniversary. While the sci-fi classic has been on air in some shape or form since 1963, it was given a reincarnation in 2005 and has been back almost every year since.

2 weeks ago | empireonline.com | Ben Travis

For the most part, Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu proved to be a faithful take on a story that’s been told in cinema for over 100 years now. But a century later, changes were inevitable – not just this version having dialogue, but a different interpretation of Count Orlok himself. This time, he’s not a vampiric creature per se, but the reanimated bloodsucking corpse of a Transylvanian nobleman – complete with controversial lip-fuzz.

2 weeks ago | empireonline.com | Ben Travis

Ever since the mid-‘80s, The Karate Kid films have been bringing martial arts brawls to mainstream cinema – predominantly (you guessed it!) karate in the original outings, and kung fu in 2010’s The Karate Kid reboot.

2 weeks ago | empireonline.com | Ben Travis

In recent years, the ‘visual album’ has become a part of many a musician’s album cycle. From Beyoncé’s Lemonade, to Janelle Monáe’s Dirty Computer, to Jennifer Lopez’s This Is Me… Now: A Love Story, those projects tend to be lavish, thematic affairs that largely exist as super-sized album-length music videos. Hurry Up Tomorrow is not that. Sure, the latest album from Canadian mega-star The Weeknd – aka Abel Tesfaye – is also called Hurry Up Tomorrow.

2 weeks ago | empireonline.com | Ben Travis

Alexander Skarsgård has played all kinds of roles over the years. He’s been a centuries-old vampire; a vengeful viking; a writer having a very, very bad holiday. But nothing has quite spoken to him like his latest role: Murderbot, in Murderbot. He’s taking on the lead role in Apple TV+’s adaptation of Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries novels, playing a security cyborg who – to its own inconvenience – starts to relate more and more to humanity, whilst deriding our mortal foibles.