The Hooligan Factory, 2014 Directed by Nick Nevern Starring Jason Maza, Nick Nevern, Tom Burke, Ray Fearon, Steven O’Donnell, Morgan Watkins, Josef Altin, Ronnie Fox, Leo Gregory, Keith-Lee Castle and Lorraine Stanley SYNOPSIS: Dex, Danny and The Hooligan Factory travel the length of the country on a mission to re-establish their firm’s glory days. However, the […]

Oculus, 2014 Directed by Mike Flanagan Starring Karen Gillan, Brenton Thwaites, Katee Sackhoff, Rory Cochrane, Analise Basso and Garrett Ryan SYNOPSIS: A woman tries to exonerate her brother, who was convicted of murder, by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon. Over the last decade or so, the horror genre hasn’t really turned […]

As pointed out in a previous news story, it’s a good time to be a Star Wars fan. We have J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars Episode VII currently being filmed, Godzilla director Gareth Edwards directing a spin-off movie and Chronicle‘s Josh Trank doing another. But one Star Wars spin-off that looks like we’ll never see is the […]

Road, 2014 Directed by Michael Hewitt and Dermot Lavery SYNOPSIS: Brothers addicted to speed. At any price. Motorcycle road racing is the most dangerous of all motor sports. One in which men compete at speeds of up to 200 miles per hour on closed country roads. Roads that are lined with trees, telegraph posts, stone walls. […]

Oliver Davis reviews 2000AD’s Prog 1885… Borag thungg! Just like the mighty organ, we’ll start with Judge Dredd and his latest storyline Trauma Town. Michael Carroll’s plot is decent enough, with Dredd and a few other Judges falling victim to nightmarish visions. The pervading theory is that a power Psi is the cause, but the […]

Trevor Hogg chats with visual effects supervisor Lou Pecora, digital effects supervisor Nikos Kalaitzidi, animation supervisor Benoit Dubuc and previs supervisor  Austin Bonang about having the future collide with the past…. When returning to the movie franchise he helped to launch, filmmaker Bryan Singer (The Usual Suspects) turned to Richard Stammers (Prometheus) to orchestrate the visual […]

Following the announcement that Stardust‘s Charlie Cox would be playing Matt Murdock in Marvel’s Netflix series Daredevil, Marvel have announced that veteran actor Vincent D’Onofrio will be playing his nemesis Wilson Fisk a.k.a. The Kingpin. D’Onofrio was recently seen in The Escape Plan but is perhaps best known for his role as Detective Robert Goren in […]

The current incarnation of Godzilla is still doing big numbers at the box office, but there was a time when there was going to a sequel to the American release of Godzilla 2000 called Godzilla: Reborn. Author of Japan’s Favourite Mon-Star, Steve Ryfle sat down with Michael Schlesinger (who wrote and produced the American release of […]

Oliver Davis reviews the ninth episode of Game of Thrones Season Four…. The Watchers on the Wall. Directed by Neil Marshall. Written by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. The usual format of these Game of Thrones reviews – a by-character breakdown, emulating the chapter perspectives of George R. R. Martin’s books – falters this […]

Last weekend saw the 30th anniversary of Ivan Reitman’s comedy classic Ghostbusters, but the third entry in the franchise is perhaps one of the longest gestating movies in Hollywood development. Despite being in play since the early 90s, Ghostbusters 3 is yet to go into production. Ivan Reitman has ruled himself out of directing after […]