Our weekly round up of all the latest stories from the world of screen superheroes, including Justice League and the DC Movie Universe, Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World: Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy, Doctor Strange, The Avengers 2, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 4, Ghost Rider, The […]
The Walking Dead Season 3 – Episode 12 Review
Piers McCarthy reviews the twelfth episode of The Walking Dead season 3…. Often in assessing The Walking Dead I forget about the scale of the show; mostly I look at the writing and the direction, but rarely the design and set-pieces. Watching episode 12 was wonderfully eye-opening for immediately drawing my attention what I usually […]
DC Entertainment has a strong February & Injustice prevails in comic shops
Justice League of America #1 written by Geoff Johns and drawn by artist David Finch was the best-selling comic book to specialty retailers in February 2013. DC Entertainment also published 15 out of the top 50 titles during the month with notable sellers including Batman: Night of the Owls, Fables: Cubs in Toyland Vol. 18 […]
What does Sam Raimi think of The Amazing Spider-Man?
A couple of weeks back Sam Raimi admitted he was yet to watch last year’s superhero reboot The Amazing Spider-Man, as he “didn’t want to go to his girlfriend’s wedding.” Well, it seems that the original Spider-Man trilogy director has since had a change of heart, with Raimi telling HeyUGuys that he’s finally caught up […]
Special Features – The Action Film: A Requiem
Anghus Houvouras on the death of the action film… The action film is practically dead. Languishing, comatose, and inching ever closer to the grave. The once proud genre was a mainstay of the movies ever since the words ‘motion’ was paired with ‘picture’. It was the action film that spoke to the common man, teaching […]
The Flickering Myth Reaction to the second Iron Man 3 trailer
The Flickering Myth writing team look at the second trailer for Iron Man 3… It’s finally here! The comic book movie season of 2013 is finally here! And kicking things off is the first part of Marvel’s Phase Two in the form of Shane Black’s Iron Man 3 which sees Tony Stark battling the evil […]
Joss Whedon shares his thoughts on a DC movie universe, Wonder Woman and S.H.I.E.L.D.
Earlier this week the internet exploded with the rumour that Warner Bros. had handed Christopher Nolan the keys to a DC movie universe, with various reports circulating suggesting that Nolan would serve as producer on the studio’s long-rumoured Justice League adaptation, or that Christian Bale’s Dark Knight would team up with Henry Cavill’s Man of […]
Disney eyes an Oz The Great and Powerful sequel
With Oz The Great and Powerful hitting cinemas today (read our review here), Variety are reporting that Disney are planning on returning to the world again for a sequel with Mitchell Kapner (who wrote the first film) hired to start work. The movie is looking to make around $80 million this weekend State side so […]
Movie Review – Stoker (2013)
Stoker, 2013. Directed by Chan-wook Park.Starring Mia Wasikowska, Nicole Kidman, Matthew Goode, Dermot Mulroney, Jacki Weaver, and Lucas Till. SYNOPSIS: After India’s father dies, her Uncle Charlie, who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her unstable mother. She comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives and becomes increasingly […]
Comic Book Review – Detective Comics #18
Robb Ghag reviews Detective Comics #18… Following the aftermath of Death of the Family and Batman: Incorporated #8, we enter the Batman’s new chapter called “Requiem”. The fallout from Death of the Family has left Batman again the lone vigilante of justice. It’s been some time since I read a Batman story where one of […]
