The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, 2013. Directed by Peter Jackson.Starring Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Orlando Bloom, Evangaline Lilly, Luke Evans, Lee Pace, Ken Stott, Graham McTavish, Aidan Turner, Dean O’Gorman, Mark Hadlow, Jed Brophy, Adam Brown, John Callen, Peter Hambleton, William Kircher, James Nesbitt, Stephen Hunter, Hugo Weaving, Christopher Lee, Ian Holm, […]

Robb Ghag reviews Amazing X-Men #2… “The X-Men, on the search for Nightcrawler, find themselves separated! Wolverine and Northstar are mysteriously in… heaven?! But where does that leave the rest of the team?” This comic is clearly a throwback to the old Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends animated series. Where else would you see flying […]

Robb Ghag reviews Detective Comics #26… “Batman works to contain a swarm of genetically altered killer bats, as well as She-Bat and other humans who have been mutated into bat-people” First and foremost, this issue of Detective Comics has one of the most memorable covers to a Batman comic in recent history. Jason Fabok does […]

This year saw Henry Cavill joining the likes of George Reeves, Christopher Reeve, Tom Welling and Brandon Routh by donning the red cape as Superman for Zack Snyder’s reboot Man of Steel. However, had Tim Burton had his way, we’d also be adding Nicolas Cage to that list, with the pair both attached to a […]

Luke Owen gives his thoughts on the first trailer for Gareth Edward’s Godzilla…. Having grown up a fan of kaiju cinema, the wait for the Godzilla trailer has been almost excruciating. While other movies coming out in 2014 were flaunting their bright and bombastic trailers and announcements of sequels, the Godzilla camp over at Legendary […]

Last year, Eddie Murphy was named the most overpaid actor in Hollywood, but he’s now passed on the crown to another “comic talent” in Adam Sandler, thanks in no small part to a disastrous double bill of That’s My Boy and Jack & Jill. According to Forbes, for every dollar that Sandler has been paid […]

Sony were seemingly trying to play catch up with Marvel and Disney by creating their own wider universe for Spider-Man when they announced the release date for The Amazing Spider-Man 3 and The Amazing Spider-Man 4. The release of the trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 seemed like the best place to start this, but one […]

Trevor Hogg reviews the final issue of the four-part series which has brought The Rocketeer and The Spirit together for the first time… Unlikely allies The Rocketeer and The Spirit depart the sunny climes of Los Angeles for the cold confines of Central City.  Tracking their foe Trask and The Octopus the heroic duo find […]

The long-gestating Freddie Mercury biopic finally seems to be moving forward, with Deadline revealing that British filmmaker Dexter Fletcher (Wild Bill, Sunshine on Leith) has closed a deal with GK Films to direct the film, which has Ben Whishaw (Skyfall, Cloud Atlas) attached to star as the legendary Queen frontman after Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat, […]

Villordsutch reviews Think Tank #11… “World War III is imminent! And the only person stepping forward to prevent it is the slacker genius Dr. David Loren! Can a lab rat who has never even fired a handgun stop a weapon of mass destruction?” If I was held against a wall in front of a firing […]