With the release of the eagerly anticipated sequel The Raid 2: Berandal just around the corner, Screen Gems and XYZ have decided to cash in on the success of Welsh filmmaker Gareth Evans’ hard-hitting Indonesian action hit with a Hollywood remake. According to The Wrap, Patrick Hughes – director of the excellent Aussie western Red […]

Jackson Ball reviews the sixth episode of House of Cards season 2… The ongoing battle of wits between Vice President Francis ‘Frank’ Underwood (Kevin Spacey) and billionaire industry tycoon Raymond Tusk (Gerald McRaney) begins to heat up, as both parties desperately try to sway the President’s favour in their direction. Spoilers Ahead – You have […]

Minor X-Men: Days of Future Past spoilers to follow… If you’ve been keeping an eye on the marketing for X-Men: Days of Future Past, chances are you’ll have a few questions about the upcoming X-Men sequel. Why is James McAvoy’s Professor X still walking around? How has Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) got his adamantium back? And […]

Anthony Stokes is excited by the casting on Fox’s upcoming reboot of The Fantastic Four… After months of rumors and tons of backlash The Fantastic Four have been cast. This isn’t intentional, but it seems that movies people are excited for I don’t care about (Batman vs. Superman, The Amazing Spider-Man 2) and the that […]

Gavin Logan reviews the second episode of Fleming… While last week’s opener did a respectable job at seemingly setting the tone for the following episodes, teasing us with just the right combination of action and sexual accomplishment that we are so use to seeing from a Bond movie, Episode 2 smacks us in the face […]

Luke Owen gives his thoughts on the trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy… (if you missed the trailer, view it here) It starts off just like any other comic book movie trailer. Dark and dramatic music matches the blue-tinted visuals of a cool-looking character slowly reaching for what he came for. But before he can […]

20th Century Fox and Chronicle director Josh Trank have finally found their roster for next year’s superhero reboot The Fantastic Four, and if you’ve been following the casting rumours closely, there’ll be little surprise in three quarters of the names. As rumoured, Michael B. Jordan (Chronicle, Fruitvale Station) is set to play Johnny Storm / […]

Luke Owen reviews Godzilla: Rulers of Earth #9 from IDW… Before Godzilla was king, there was another! King Caesar makes his comic book debut in a tale set thousands of years in Earth’s past, in a battle that sets the stage for today’s world of monsters.Just as its sure the sun will rise in the […]

Anghus Houvouras on how spoilers are ruining film sites…. I’ve been pretty ambivalent about the spoiler outrage that has gripped the online communities since their existence.  Even when they were microscopic.  No doubt at some point in 1992 there were four film fans on a BBS Bulletin Board and one of them ruined The Crying […]

Fox’s Batman prequel series Gotham has added a new villain to its cast, with Jada Pinkett Smith (The Matrix Revolutions, Madagascar) set to play newly-created mobster Fish Mooney, who Deadline describes as “an imposing, hotheaded and notoriously sadistic gangster boss and nightclub owner with street smarts and almost extra-sensory abilities to read people like an […]