With the release of The Dark Knight Rises bringing the curtain down on Christopher Nolan ‘Dark Knight Trilogy’ earlier this year, Warner Bros. is now faced with the unenviable task of finding a new director to pick up the mantle of the Bat and launch the next chapter of The Dark Knight’s illustrious screen career. Naturally […]

Commenting on the Critics with Simon Columb… Neal Gabler, for The LA Times, writes about how the Star Wars and Marvel deals from Disney says much more about the industry… “It used to be that the movie created the brand, which is exactly how George Lucas built his empire. Now the brand creates the movie. […]

Helen Murdoch presents her five essential war films… With our poppies pinned firmly to our coats, it’s the time of year where we remember the lives lost through war. War has always gripped cinema goers, whether through battle scenes or emotional tales of adversity and so on. It is a diverse genre that has created […]

With Disney and Lucasfilm having secured a writer for the upcoming Star Wars Episode VII in Academy Award-winner Michael Arndt (Little Miss Sunshine, Toy Story 3), the big question now is, just who will direct the latest instalment in the Star Wars saga? From the moment that Disney made the shock announcement that a new […]

Our weekly round up of all the latest news stories from the world of screen superheroes, including Iron Man 3, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, The Amazing Spider-Man, X-Men: Days of Future Past, The Wolverine, Deadpool, Kick-Ass 2, Man of Steel, Heaven Sent, The Dark Knight Rises, Beware the Batman, Arrow […]

Mark Millar is certainly a busy man at the moment, with several Millarworld properties in various stages of development – including the currently-in-production Kick-Ass 2 and the forthcoming adaptation of The Secret Service from director Matthew Vaughn – while he’s also getting to grips with his new role as creative consultant on 20th Century Fox’s […]

Piers McCarthy reviews the fourth episode of The Walking Dead season three… In many cases there will be one seminal season of a television show. For all the episodes that constitute the label “best ever season”, there is usually one in amongst them all that is pivotal. It may be too early to say but […]

The first image of Tom Cruise in director Doug Liman’s (The Bourne Identity, Mr. & Mrs. Smith) sci fi actioner All You Need is Kill has arrived online, showing a mech-suit clad Cruiser running away from an explosion. With clunky armor like that, it’s no wonder Cruise’s future soldier is going to find himself killed over and over […]

Flight, 2012. Directed by Robert Zemeckis. Starring Denzel Washington, Don Cheadle, Melissa Leo, Kelly Reilly, Bruce Greenwood and John Goodman. SYNOPSIS: An airline pilot is hailed as a hero after saving the lives of his passengers following a mid-air catastrophe, but questions are soon raised as to who or what was really at fault for […]

From the moment that Disney announced it was set to develop a new Star Wars trilogy, the internet has been rife with speculation as to potential directors for Star Wars Episode VII. While it seems we’re no closer to learning who will succeed George Lucas in the director’s chair for the next instalment of the […]