AMC has found a director for the upcoming pilot episode of its companion show / spin-off to The Walking Dead, with Deadline revealing that Adam Davidson (Community, Grey’s Anatomy, Fringe) has signed on to the project.The companion show has been co-created by Robert Kirkman and Dave Erickson (Marco Polo), and will revolve around a new […]
DVD Review – How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)
How to Get Ahead in Advertising, 1989.Written and Directed by Bruce Robinson. Starring Richard E.Grant, Rachel Ward, Richard Wilson, John Shrapnel and Tony Slattery.SYNOPSIS:A young advertising executive is overcome with stress when attempting to develop a new campaign for a brand of pimple cream. His extreme anxiety eventually leads to a boil growth on his […]
Movie Review – Nightcrawler (2014)
Nightcrawler, 2014.Written and Directed by Dan Gilroy. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Bill Paxton, Rene Russo and Riz Ahmed.SYNOPSIS:A young man stumbles upon the underground world of L.A. freelance crime journalism.“I have a saying; if you’re seeing me then you’re probably having the worst day of your life”How do you know you are really good at something […]
Video Game Review – Shadow Warrior
Kris Wall reviews Shadow Warrior… Shadow Warrior bleeds old school gaming from every single pore, a reboot of a game of the same name from the late 90’s by 3D Realms. The original Shadow Warrior first appeared in 1997, a pretender to Duke Nukems crown, aping it’s style and terrible/brilliant one liners, while deemed something […]
Fast & Furious 7 gets name change, banner, and trailer announcement
After the shocking death of film star Paul Walker, Fast & Furious 7 came to a screeching halt in mid-production, underwent some rewrites, and was delayed from its summer 2014 release to April 2015. Now, Universal is doing all it can to ramp up excitement for the new installment and remind audiences of the fast-paced thrills that […]
Reverse-Flash, Black Canary, Zatanna, Captain Cold and Mr. Freeze join LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham
Just yesterday a handful of new playable characters were revealed for LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham, and now we’ve been given five more! As revealed at MCM London Comic-Con this weekend, Reverse-Flash, Black Canary, Zatanna, Captain Cold, and Mr. Freeze have joined the ranks of the highly-anticipated game…With LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham set to hit store shelves […]
Trick-or-Treat in Gotham with new printable character masks
The folks who run the Gotham Facebook page have given fans yet another option for dressing up as your favorite Batman villains this Halloween, in the form of new downloadable masks featuring the future versions of The Riddler, Penguin, Catwoman, and even Fish Mooney.The masks themselves aren’t very good, and probably wouldn’t hold up very well at […]
Guardians of the Galaxy overtakes X-Men: Days of Future Past to become the highest-grossing comic book movie of the year
Having become the third-biggest release of the Marvel Cinematic Universe last week, director James Gunn’s space opera Guardians of the Galaxy has now overtaken the global box office haul of Fox’s X-Men: Days of Future Past to become the highest grossing comic book movie of 2014. Guardians has amassed $752.6 million around the world since […]
Phil Lord and Chris Miller to write The LEGO Movie sequel
When The LEGO Movie sequel was quickly announced earlier this year, it appeared that the first film’s directors, fan-favorites Phil Lord and Chris Miller, would be returning only in a producing capacity. Well, fret not LEGO fans, because according to Deadline, Lord and Miller have signed on to write the script for The LEGO Movie 2. There’s unfortunately […]
The Callow Way – Drive, Dying of the Light and Hollywood Scandals
Neil Calloway looks at the Hollywood debacle of Nicolas Cage’s upcoming movie Dying of the Light… A few years ago, hot off the back of Bronson and Valhalla Rising, Nicolas Winding Refn was in Hollywood developing a film with Harrison Ford. Disagreements over the ending meant neither Ford nor Winding Refn remained attached the film. […]
