Our weekly round-up of all the big news stories from the world of movie superheroes… Despite the arrival of the latest Tim Burton / Johnny Depp collaboration Dark Shadows, The Avengers is expected to continue its dominance at the box office this weekend, with analysts predicting that Marvel’s money train will hit the $1 billion […]
Special Features – Jean-Claude Van Damme: The Second Coming
Tom Jolliffe on the second coming of Jean-Claude Van Damme in The Expendables 2 and the muscular thunder he looks set to steal… Jean-Claude Van Damme was just a fresh faced young Belgian with a pocket full of dreams when he left his home to try his luck in America… and his pockets had plenty […]
Movie Review – Safe (2012)
Safe, 2012. Directed by Boaz Yakin. Starring Jason Statham, Catherine Chan, Chris Sarandon, Robert John Burke, James Hong and Reggie Lee. SYNOPSIS: After his family are murdered by Russian gangsters, an ex-cop and second-rate cage fighter rescues a young girl whose memory contains a secret code worth millions and has to fight to keep her […]
The Apprentice 2012 – Episode 8 Review
Luke Owen on last night’s episode of The Apprentice 2012… I remember a couple of years back, Radio 1 DJ Matt Edmundson proclaimed on his Apprentice video blog, “the fit one’s gooooooooone!” when one of the pretty candidates was fired. I didn’t quite do that yesterday (my girlfriend was in the room) but I did […]
Movie Review – Memory Lane (2011)
Memory Lane, 2011. Directed by Shawn Holmes. Starring Michael Guy Allen and Meg Barrick. SYNOPSIS: When Nick (Allen) finds his fiancé dead, he routinely travels to the afterworld in order to find out who murdered her. He does this by stopping and starting his heart over and over again. Okay, let’s get this out of […]
Holy Franchise, Batman! A very brief history of the Dark Knight on screen
Following on from the arrival of the third trailer for The Dark Knight Rises last week, I put together a short article for Robert Hale Book Blog about the various screen incarnations of the Caped Crusader. Full disclosure: it was written to promote the upcoming release of my book, ‘Holy Franchise, Batman! Bringing the Caped […]
Marion Cotillard: “I’m not Talia al Ghul in The Dark Knight Rises. Honest.”
From the moment it was announced that Inception stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Marion Cotillard were to reunite with director Christopher Nolan for The Dark Knight Rises, there’s been a tonne of speculation over the identity of their characters, ‘John Blake’ and ‘Miranda Tate’. Actually, that’s not quite true… there’s been a tonne of speculation over […]
Game of Thrones Season Two – Episode 6 Review
Oliver Davis reviews the sixth episode of Game of Thrones Season Two… The Old Gods and the New. Directed by David Nutter. Written by Vanessa Taylor. Last week’s episode felt flat. Neither the writing or direction excelled. Thankfully, The Old Gods and the New is arguably the best episode of Season 2 thus far. It […]
Sketchy Details: A conversation with illustrator Livio Ramondelli
Trevor Hogg chats with illustrator Livio Ramondelli about his Transformers work as well as his love for comic books and movies… “I’m originally from Pennsylvania, I moved to California to get my Masters and have been out here ever since,” states Illustrator Livio Ramondelli who comes from a family more involved with medicine and finance […]
The Future of The Avengers…
Commenting on the critics with Simon Columb… This weeks ‘quote’ is very short, from Edgar Wright, on Twitter… Received this in the mail. What can it mean? twitpic.com/9hnn6t — edgarwright (@edgarwright) May 5, 2012 There is no full article to read on this, despite a little coverage on /Film. Avengers Assemble has made over $200m […]
