Yesterday it was announced that Scarlett Johansson is expecting her first child with fiancé Romain Dauriac, sending Marvel fans into a state of panic as to the implications for the upcoming sequel The Avengers: Age of Ultron, which is gearing up to kick off principal photography ahead of a release next summer. Well, we can […]

Matt Smith reviews the second episode of True Detective… True Detective, especially this week, is all about subjectivity. Who’s telling the right story, whose point of view and recollection can be trusted. Both views running parallel are rarely shown, so the show, while not holding your hand, certainly tells you where to look. Do we […]

Bryan Singer clearly isn’t busy enough. Although he is still putting the finishing touches to X-Men: Days of Future Past and is attached to write, produce and possibly direct the sequel/prequel/interquel X-Men: Apocalypse for a 2016 release, he is now on board to helm the pilot for Battle Creek, the latest series from Breaking Bad […]

Chris Cooper reviews the latest in IDW’s Utrom Empire series…. “The Fugitoid is faced with an impossible choice, and the fate of more than one species may rest in his hands! As a deadly storm envelops Burnow Island, Baxter Stockman kicks his scheme into high gear. Is Krang ready to pay the ultimate price for […]

Despite being arguably the least reputable site on the internet when it comes to “scoops”, Cosmic Book News scored a tonne of headlines last year when it claimed that Bryan Cranston was set to be announced in a multi-picture deal as Lex Luthor in the upcoming Man of Steel sequel Batman vs. Superman. We never […]

One of the main criticisms levied towards Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has been the lack of guest stars from both the Marvel Cinematic and comic book universes, although the producers of the show appear to be making steps to rectify that, having give a debut to the cyborg superhero Deathlok, as well as gearing up […]

Tom Jolliffe remembers John Candy…. Today marks the 20th anniversary of the passing of comedic legend, John Candy. One of Canada’s most successful film and TV exports, Candy rose through the TV comedy circuit in Canada alongside contemporaries like Rick Moranis, Harold Ramis (sadly no longer with us now), Catherine O’Hara and Eugene Levy. Throughout […]

Since the big news at last year’s Comic-Con that The Dark Knight will join the Man of Steel for the upcoming DC Comics superhero spectacular Batman vs. Superman, we’ve had to suffer through wave after wave of rumours concerning everything from the casting of Batman and Lex Luthor through to the inclusion of virtually every […]

Last week producer Joel Silver (Lethal Weapon, Non-Stop) spoke about his previous plans to bring Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ seminal comic book tale Watchmen to the screen, during which he stated that his and Terry Gilliam’s (Brazil, The Zero Theorem) adaptation would have been “MUCH better” than what we ultimately got from Zack Snyder […]

With the release of X-Men: Days of Future Past this May, Hugh Jackman will have made seven appearances as Wolverine, and while talking to IGN, the star has discussed his time as the clawed hero, and whether he thinks Fox had given any consideration to recasting the role of Logan, particularly with a younger actor […]