Jackson Ball continues our Al Pacino Retrospective with Glengarry Glen Ross… Having won both a Tony and a Pulitzer Prize, you may think that David Mamet’s 1984 play was always ripe for a big-screen adaptation. However, a closer look at Glengarry Glen Ross indicates that a play-to-cinema translation was not as simple as it seemed. […]

Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3 was highly criticised for its extensive use of too many villains so when it was announced that Electro, The Rhino and the Green Goblin would all be sharing the screen in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, fans were rightly concerned. However, director Marc Webb has come to the defence of the film. […]

With films such as Taken, Unknown and his latest offering Non-Stop, Irish actor Liam Neeson has reinvented himself as an action star over the past couple of years. However, had things been different, he could have made this transition much earlier, with the producers of the James Bond franchise eyeing Neeson to take over from […]

Ender’s Game, 2013. Directed by Gavin Hood.Starring Harrison Ford, Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Abigail Breslin, Ben Kingsley and Viola Davis. SYNOPSIS: Young Ender Wiggin is recruited by the International Military to lead the fight against the Formics, a genocidal alien race which nearly annihilated the human race in a previous invasion. Another week, another novella […]

Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas, 2013. Directed by Arnaud des Pallières.Starring Mads Mikkelsen, Mélusine Mayance, Delphine Chuillot, David Kross, Bruno Ganz, Denis Lavant and Roxane Duran. SYNOPSIS:  16th century France: Michael Kohlhaas, a horse dealer and loving father, lives a happy and prosperous life in the peaceful countryside. But when a cruel […]

Late last year it was rumoured that This Is the End duo Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg were linking up with Breaking Bad producer Sam Catlin to develop an adaptation of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s classic comic book series Preacher, and with the project now officially a go at Sony TV and AMC, screenwriter […]

Matt Smith reviews episode 7 of The Following season 2… The Following has, of late, been a tad uninspired. It seems fitting that ever since Joe Carroll admitted he was both a terrible writer and winging it, the show has been falling back on tired plot devices and shock tactics to provide what it thinks […]

Things have fallen pretty quiet on the Guardians of the Galaxy front since the trailer reveal last month as Marvel Studios focuses its efforts on the upcoming release of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, but last night AMC caught up with leading man Chris Pratt (Star-Lord), director James Gunn and producer Kevin Feige for a […]

300: Rise of an Empire, 2013. Directed by Noam Murro.Starring Sullivan Stapleton, Eva Green, Lena Headey, Hans Matheson, Rodrigo Santiago, Callan Mulvey, David Wenham and Jack O’Connell.   SYNOPSIS: A Greek general leads the charge against invading Persian forces led by the vengeful demi-god Xerxes. It has been nearly 8 years now since Gerard Butler so […]

Now that Fox has found its cast for The Fantastic Four reboot, we’re starting to get a few official comments from those involved with the latest big screen iteration of Marvel’s First Family. Last week, Michael B. Jordan (Fruitvale Station) spoke about the controversy surrounding his casting as Johnny Storm / The Human Torch [see […]