Having heard a little yesterday from Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick about their as-yet-unfilmed Deadpool screenplay, the Zombieland and G.I. Joe: Retaliation scribes have now spoken about another comic book adaptation which is yet to see the light of day by offering up some details on a script they wrote for Sony’s long-in-development Spider-Man spin-off […]
Comic Book Review – Judge Dredd #5
Chris Cooper reviews the latest issue of IDW’s Judge Dredd… “Technology is failing all over Mega-City One, causing blackouts, explosions, radiation leaks and other nasty surprises… leaving Dredd stranded in the middle of a vicious block war, with no backup or reinforcements. It’s just a Judge and his Lawgiver against overwhelming odds-that is, until his […]
Roland Emmerich offers plot details for Independence Day sequels
As we await the first trailer for Roland Emmerich’s Presidential action thriller White House Down, the director has spoken to EW about his plans to continue the Independence Day franchise (if you can call it a franchise, with just the one film to date) with two sequels, ID Forever Part 1 and ID Forever Part […]
Terry Gilliam Retrospective Part 7: An Arrogant and Drug Fuelled Road Trip
Paul Risker continues his Terry Gilliam retrospective…. This retrospective series appears to have laid out Gilliam’s career so far as a series of chapters from a book. In this current chapter which has spanned The Fisher King and Twelve Monkeys, we now arrive in Las Vegas in search of the American Dream, before Gilliam steps […]
Tom Hardy and Jason Statham linked to Snake Plissken for Escape from New York remake
Last week we heard that producer Joel Silver (The Matrix) and StudioCanal are planning to remake John Carpenter’s 1981 cult classic Escape from New York, and now the NY Daily News is reporting that British actors Tom Hardy (Warrior, The Dark Knight Rises) and Jason Statham (The Expendables 2, Parker) are battling it out for […]
Danny Boyle says no to Bond 24, talks Trainspotting sequel
The internet was awash with reports yesterday linking Academy Award-winning filmmaker Danny Boyle to the vacant director’s chair on Bond 24, stemming from a report in The Sun which claimed that Boyle was in the frame because he’d been seen chatting with producer Barbara Broccoli back stage at the Empire Awards on Sunday night. So […]
Special Features – Iron Man 3 Sneak Preview Footage Reaction
Scott Davis reports from today’s London press preview of one of 2013’s biggest films: the return of Tony Stark in Iron Man 3 (if you’ve not seen the trailers and TV spots, there are some minor spoilers ahead)… “You’ll never see me coming.” Unlike the legendary villain The Mandarin from the Marvel and Iron Man […]
Screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick discuss the Deadpool movie
Last week we heard from Wade Wilson himself, Ryan Reynolds, who offered up a few words about the long-in-development Deadpool movie, stating that the script is “so, so far into the R-rated zone [that] I don’t know if [Fox] would ever risk their reputation doing it.” Well, now screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (G.I. […]
My VHS Memories – A VHS Voyage
Follwing our interview with Dale Lloyd of Viva VHS, J-P Wooding looks back at his VHS memories… When I was about seven or eight I enjoyed playing outside with my friends a lot but when the weather was bad or we got bored it was a real bonus if I was playing with a couple […]
Movie Review – Good Vibrations (2012)
Good Vibrations, 2012 Directed by Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glen Leyburn.Starring Richard Dormer, Jodie Whittaker, Mark Ryder, Dylan Moran, Adrian Dunbar and Niall Wright. SYNOPSIS: A chronicle of the life of Terri Hooley, a record-store owner instrumental in developing Belfast’s punk-rock scene. The late 70s punk scene of the United Kingdom (or, as we shall […]