With films such as Taken, Unknown and his latest offering Non-Stop, Irish actor Liam Neeson has reinvented himself as an action star over the past couple of years. However, had things been different, he could have made this transition much earlier, with the producers of the James Bond franchise eyeing Neeson to take over from […]

Ender’s Game, 2013. Directed by Gavin Hood.Starring Harrison Ford, Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Abigail Breslin, Ben Kingsley and Viola Davis. SYNOPSIS: Young Ender Wiggin is recruited by the International Military to lead the fight against the Formics, a genocidal alien race which nearly annihilated the human race in a previous invasion. Another week, another novella […]

Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas, 2013. Directed by Arnaud des Pallières.Starring Mads Mikkelsen, Mélusine Mayance, Delphine Chuillot, David Kross, Bruno Ganz, Denis Lavant and Roxane Duran. SYNOPSIS:  16th century France: Michael Kohlhaas, a horse dealer and loving father, lives a happy and prosperous life in the peaceful countryside. But when a cruel […]

Late last year it was rumoured that This Is the End duo Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg were linking up with Breaking Bad producer Sam Catlin to develop an adaptation of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s classic comic book series Preacher, and with the project now officially a go at Sony TV and AMC, screenwriter […]

Matt Smith reviews episode 7 of The Following season 2… The Following has, of late, been a tad uninspired. It seems fitting that ever since Joe Carroll admitted he was both a terrible writer and winging it, the show has been falling back on tired plot devices and shock tactics to provide what it thinks […]

Things have fallen pretty quiet on the Guardians of the Galaxy front since the trailer reveal last month as Marvel Studios focuses its efforts on the upcoming release of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, but last night AMC caught up with leading man Chris Pratt (Star-Lord), director James Gunn and producer Kevin Feige for a […]

300: Rise of an Empire, 2013. Directed by Noam Murro.Starring Sullivan Stapleton, Eva Green, Lena Headey, Hans Matheson, Rodrigo Santiago, Callan Mulvey, David Wenham and Jack O’Connell.   SYNOPSIS: A Greek general leads the charge against invading Persian forces led by the vengeful demi-god Xerxes. It has been nearly 8 years now since Gerard Butler so […]

Now that Fox has found its cast for The Fantastic Four reboot, we’re starting to get a few official comments from those involved with the latest big screen iteration of Marvel’s First Family. Last week, Michael B. Jordan (Fruitvale Station) spoke about the controversy surrounding his casting as Johnny Storm / The Human Torch [see […]

Matt Smith reviews the twelfth episode of Elementary season 2…. We all make compromises in life to keep along or get ahead. Social graces that we afford to others, sometimes in order to save someone embarrassment, other times to get ahead, perhaps other times in order to just fit in. So, the question begging to […]

Runner Runner, 2013. Directed by Brad Furman.Starring Ben Affleck, Justin Timberlake, Gemma Arterton, Anthony Mackie, Michael Esper and Oliver Cooper. SYNOPSIS: When a poor college student who cracks an online poker game goes bust, he arranges a face-to-face with the man he thinks cheated him, a sly offshore entrepreneur. When it comes to movies about […]