When it comes to superhero news, Marvel Studios has been quiet lately, taking a back seat to The Amazing Spider-Man 2, X-Men: Days of Future Past and Warner Bros.’ various TV / Batman vs. Superman / Justice League announcements. Well, to help us get through the lull, a new casting claim has emerged from rumour […]

2014 is shaping up to be a huge year for Elizabeth Olsen. After a string of indie successes, including the acclaimed Martha Marcy May Marlene, she’s set to feature in the blockbuster Godzilla this week, and is currently filming the hotly-anticipated Marvel sequel Avengers: Age of Ultron, which is set to arrive next Spring. In […]

CBS has announced its upcoming TV schedule, revealing that the long-running sitcom Two and a Half Men will come to an end with its 12th season, and that the network has also decided against picking up the How I Met Your Mother spin-off pilot How I Met Your Dad. The Chuck Lorre-produced Two and a […]

An Autumn Afternoon (Japan: Sanma no aji), 1962. Directed by Yasujiro Ozu. Starring Chishu Ryu, Shima Iwashita, Keiji Sada and Mariko Okada. SYNOPSIS: An aging widower arranges a marriage for his only daughter. An Autumn Afternoon tells the story of Hirayama (Chishu Ryu), an older man, who has three children. His eldest son, Koichi, is married. […]

With the new movie released tomorrow, Luke Owen looks at the Top 5 Godzilla movies…. For the last 60 years, one giant monster has stood tall above all others – the King of the Monsters: Godzilla. Since his first appearance in 1954, Godzilla has torn up cinema screens in Japan and around the world in […]

Luke Owen reviews the penultimate episode of From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series…. We’ve reached the ninth step of this ten-episode run and… well… it just got odd. Not ‘odd’ in a good way, but ‘odd’ in that perplexing kind of way where you find yourself asking, “just how did we get here?”. Richie Gecko […]

The Flickering Myth writing team share a few thoughts on the first look at Ben Affleck in the Batsuit…. DC fans haven’t had much to shout about over the best part of the past year, having to sit twiddling their thumbs waiting on news while Marvel Studios, Sony and Fox laid out their superhero plans […]

Lucky Bastard, 2014. Directed by Robert Nathan. Starring Don McManus, Jay Paulson, Betsy Rue, Chris Wylde and Catherine Annette. SYNOPSIS: When the adult website LUCKY BASTARD runs a contest giving the winner a night with a hot porn star, the outcome turns from fantasy to horror in a deadly nightmare no one could possibly have […]

As part of the BFI’s Studio Ghibli Season, Simon Columb reviews Pom Poko… “Testicles play an important role in tanuki mythology” writes Colin Odell and Michelle Le Blanc when discussing Pom Poko. Directed by Isao Takahata, this is a far call from the deeply serious war story of Grave of the Fireflies. Rather than humans, […]

Villordsutch reviews Star Trek – New Visions #1: The Mirror, Cracked… New Visions begins by going through the looking glass to tell the story of what happened after the classic “Mirror, Mirror” episode of the original series. In issue #1, “The Mirror, Cracked,” the crew of the Starship: Enterprise discovers two strangers in their midst, and things […]