Villordsutch reviews Mentats of Dune by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson… Mentats of Dune is the second book in the Schools of Dune Trilogy following on from the events of Sisterhood of Dune (Book 1). For those versed in both Frank Herbert’s Duniverse you will be more than aware of the Bene Gesserit, Mentats, […]

Our weekly round up of the latest stories from the world of screen superheroes, including Captain America: The Winter Soldier, The Avengers: Age of Ultron, Guardians of the Galaxy, Ant-Man, Captain Marvel, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., The Amazing Spider-Man 2, X-Men: Days of Future Past, X-Men: Apocalypse, Gotham, Arrow, Son of Batman, Powers, Bananaman and more… […]

Trevor Hogg chats with Will Cohen about making timeless visual effects for the Doctor Who franchise…. “The Milk team [as MILL TV] have been creating the VFX for Doctor Who since the series’ regeneration in 2005,” states Milk VFX CEO Will Cohen.  “The team continued to work on Day of the Doctor as Milk when […]

Anghus Houvouras on Noah and the stormy sea of noble failures…. Noah is on its way into theaters soon, and the first reviews are hitting the net like a torrential downpour.  The reviews are skewing towards the favorable, though a lot of words are spent discussing the imperfections and half-baked ideas of a movie that […]

Hollywood’s relationship with strong female lead characters and the exploration of feminist themes in general has been hit and miss. Cat Balou of 1965, starring Jane Fonda, certainly fits the bill of a movie that had both elements, but it was a film that never forgot to be mainstream piece of entertainment either. Ridley Scott’s […]

Jon M. Chu certainly likes his 80s cartoons. The director of G.I. Joe: Retaliation spent over a year developing a Masters of the Universe movie before stepping aside to concentrate on G.I. Joe 3, and now it’s been announced that he’s attached himself to another Hasbro / Marvel / Sunbow Productions series in Jem and […]

Andy Serkis, best known for his mocap work in The Lord of the Rings, King Kong and Rise of the Planet of the Apes, has signed on to direct Warner Bros.’ adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s classic stories. The film will mark Serkis’ feature directorial debut, although he has directed second unit on The Hobbit movies, […]

20th Century Fox is wasting little time in fleshing out its plans for its Marvel properties. Earlier today the studio announced releaes dates for a Wolverine sequel, The Fantastic Four 2 and an-as-yet-unrevealed Marvel title, with the three films joining the upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past, The Fantastic Four and X-Men: Apocalypse. And now […]

There’s going to be big changes behind-the-scenes for the third voyage of the rebooted U.S.S. Enterprise, with Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness director J.J. Abrams having set off at warp speed to a galaxy far, far away for Disney’s Star Wars: Episode VII, and screenwriters J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay linking up with […]

Simon Columb continues our Al Pacino Retrospective with The Insider…. Working together on Heat (only four years prior to The Insider) meant that Al Pacino and Michael Mann clearly had chemistry worth exploring. Replacing the action-sequences with political intrigue and tense paranoia meant this could hardly be billed as a follow-up. The Insider tackles the […]