Brogan Morris continues our Al Pacino Retrospective with Donnie Brasco… Goodfellas is a clear precursor to Donnie Brasco – Mike Newell’s film is so obviously indebted to Scorsese’s mob epic that it emerges as an unofficial ‘sidequel’, exploring the ruthless mafia family and navigating around mob vernacular in much the same way. But whereas Scorsese’s […]

Matt Smith reviews the fourth episode of True Detective…. After the creepy shot of a suspected murderer in last week’s episode, the question preying on the back of my mind the entire week was whether Cohle and Hart were going to catch their guy. Part of me knew it wouldn’t happen, as True Detective is, […]

Having mapped out its Marvel releases for the next few years with May’s X-Men: Days of Future Past set to be followed by The Fantastic Four in 2015 and X-Men: Apocalypse in 2016, it seems that 2017 could see fan-favourite Logan returning for his third solo outing, with director James Mangold revealing via Twitter that […]

Escape Plan, 2013. Directed by Mikael Håfström.Starring Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, 50 Cent, Jim Caviezel, Vinnie Jones, Sam Neill, Faran Tahir, Vincent D’Onofrio and Amy Ryan. SYNOPSIS: When a structural-security authority finds himself set up and incarcerated in the world’s most secret and secure prison, he has to use his skills to escape with help […]

If you were holding out any hope that Cartoon Network might air the remaining episodes of Beware the Batman, then I’m afraid we’ve got some bad news for you. It appears that our fears have been confirmed and the show has gone the way of Young Justice and Green Lantern: The Animated Series, with Newsarama […]

We’re still a few weeks away from the release of the second movie in Sony’s rebooted Spider-Man universe, but that hasn’t stopped the studio from mapping out the future of the franchise. We already know that director Marc Webb and Andrew Garfield will return for The Amazing Spider-Man 3 in 2016, while there’s planned spin-offs […]

Thomas Harris reviews the second episode of Hannibal Season 2… At times, watching Hannibal feels less simply a police procedural, more an adrenaline boost. The opening of Sakizuki encompasses this. Following directly from the previous episode, victim Roland Umber is tearing himself from dead bodies. It’s a startling image and one that continues to haunt […]

There have been reports over the last year or so that the X-Men’s main man, Wolverine, would be meeting his maker. As Logan is as ubiquitous in the comics as he is in the movies, this is big news. So, after decades of service, Marvel Entertainment is teasing that Wolverine’s final days are upon him […]

Our weekly round up of the latest stories from the world of screen superheroes, including Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America 3, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Avengers: Age of Ultron, Black Widow, Ant-Man, Doctor Strange, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Luke Cage, Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Venom, Sinister Six, […]

Brogan Morris continues our Al Pacino retrospective with Heat… On release, Michael Mann’s Heat was sold as a showdown between the two greatest actors of a generation. Al Pacino would play a driven, half-crazed detective named Vincent Hanna, while De Niro would be career criminal Neil McCauley, Hanna’s nemesis by circumstance. But the much-hyped coffee […]