Commenting on the Critics with Simon Columb… Already a comment on critics, author Tom Shone (writer of the brilliant book Blockbuster: How the Jaws and Jedi Generation Turned Hollywood into a Boom-town) writes for The Guardian about the different approaches to film criticism highlighted in the past week: “Hollywood needs policing on its weaknesses, not […]

It seems that Kevin Smith has added a little A-list star power to his upcoming low-budget horror flick Tusk, with star Justin Long (Jeepers Creepers) revealing that Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean) has joined the cast. According to The Wrap, Depp is “likely playing a French-Canadian inspector who investigates the bizarre case at the […]

Joe, 2013. Directed by David Gordon Green. Starring Nicolas Cage, Tye Sheridan, Gary Poulter, Ronnie Gene Blevins and Adriene Mishler. SYNOPSIS: An ex-con, who is the unlikeliest of role models, meets a 15-year-old boy and is faced with the choice of redemption or ruin. The back woods of Austin, Texas. A place devastated by poverty, […]

Trevor Hogg chats with Kel Symons about movies, comic books and submerging himself with an swashbuckling tale… “My mother was an RN, and my father was a lawyer,” states Kel Symons. “Though I think my dad semi-secretly wished he’d become a writer; I know he was a huge movie fan and helped inform my taste […]

Our weekly round up of the latest stories from the world of screen superheroes, including The Amazing Spider-Man 2, The Sinister Six, Venom, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America 3, Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Daredevil, Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers, X-Men: Days of Future Past, X-Men: Apocalypse, […]

Described as a “kick ass space opera!” by George R.R. Martin and as the sci-fi equivalent of Game of Thrones by anybody that has read it, The Expanse by James S.A. Corey is heading to the SyFy channel. Set two hundred years in our future this science-fiction thriller follows Detective Miller and a roguish Capitan […]

Andy Naylor reviews Judge Dredd #18… “Judge Death and the 12 other Dark Judges have targeted Mega-City and found the entire population guilty of the most serious crime… living! While the Dark Judges prepare their “Affordable Death Care Act,” a desperate Justice Department, facing mass-murder of unreal proportions, draws up an apocalyptic plan that will […]

As Zack Snyder and actress Gal Gadot (Fast & Furious 6) gear up to give a big screen debut to the Amazon Princess, former Wonder Woman Lynda Carter has shared her feelings on how she’d like to see the character portrayed in the Man of Steel sequel Batman vs. Superman, telling The Huffington Post that… […]

Luke Owen looks at the latest episode of From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series… After the action packed finale of Let’s Get Ramblin’, From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series slows down the pace somewhat as we’re given a part of the story that should have been tense, but ends up being more convoluted than it […]

We’re still over a month away from the release of X-Men: Days of Future Past, but attention is already starting to turn towards 20th Century Fox’s next mutant superhero offering X-Men: Apocalypse, with director Bryan Singer and writer-producer Simon Kinberg taking the opportunity to discuss their adaptation of the classic X-Men tale Age of Apocalypse […]