According to The Hollywood Reporter, Doug LIman (The Bourne Identity, Mr. & Mrs. Smith) is in talks to direct the upcoming video game adaptation Splinter Cell, which has Tom Hardy (The Dark Knight Rises, Locke) attached in the lead role of black ops agent Sam Fisher. Liman will also produce with regular partner David Bartis, […]

Anghus Houvouras with some rampant speculation on Captain America: The Winter Soldier…. Every week I spend an almost improbable amount of time discussing comic book themed TV shows and movies.  It’s by choice, mind you.  I might be one of the last media writers still watching Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. by choice rather than some kind […]

The Grand Budapest Hotel, 2014. Directed by Wes Anderson.Starring Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum Harvey Keitel, Tilda Swinton, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Saoirse Ronan, and Tony Revolori. SYNOPSIS: Wes Anderson returns with the gloriously bizarre tale of The Grand Budapest Hotel which follows lobby boy Zero (Revolori) and the […]

Matt Smith reviews the fourteenth episode of Elementary season 2… In reading the synopsis for this week’s Elementary, it sounded like things were going to take a welcome turn to the fun and perhaps kooky. Watson investigates the case of re-discovered dinosaur bones while Holmes tries his hand at interacting with another human as a […]

Luke Owen reviews the second episode of From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series… In an interview promoting the show’s debut, Robert Rodriguez said that this television adaptation of From Dusk Till Dawn would be “much better” than the 1996 cult classic. Based on the second episode Blood Runs Thick (aired last night on the El Ray network […]

The Machine, 2013. Written and Directed by Caradog W. James.Starring Caity Lotz, Toby Stephens, Denis Lawson, and Sam Hazeldine. SYNOPSIS: With an impoverished world plunged into a Cold War with a new enemy, Britain’s Ministry of Defence is on the brink of developing a game-changing weapon. Lead scientist Vincent McCarthy provides the answer with his […]

Anghus Houvouras reviews Zero #6… “The Large Hadron Collider. Edward Zero’s newly gained knowledge. A man with a plan to end the universe so a better one can be born. They all connect here.” Where did the horses go?  That question resonated in my head long after finishing the latest issue of Zero from Image […]

Matt Smith reviews episode 9 of The Following season 2… This week’s episode of The Following is a tough one to review. I’m not sure if I like it, with its constant twist and turns, surprises round the corner and shock-grabs. The question of whether it’s perhaps becoming a pleasure, while not being categorically ‘good’ […]

Oliver Davis reviews Prophet #43… Issue 43 begins telling the story of Hiyonhoiagn. At first, it’s a little bewildering, and you worry that this is another filler installment like last month’s. The art is different, smudged somewhat, like Szymon Kudranski’s work on Spawn. But within eight pages, Hiyonhoiagn is revealed as the nerve centre of […]

Trevor Hogg attempts to get up to speed with Rocket Girl by reviewing back-to-back issues… Changing the future is hard to do. Sparks fly when DaYoung becomes Most Wanted in two different New York Cities. Police in battling timestreams — 1986 and an alternate 2013 — want to get their girl. But bringing her in […]