Simon Columb continues our Buster Keaton month with a review of The General… Though The General is the highest ranked comedy in Sight and Sound’s recent poll of ‘The Greatest Films of All-Time’, it is interesting to note how it failed to recoup the costly production in 1927. An expensive bridge-destruction rivalling The Bridge on […]

This Spring screen legend Robert Redford (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All Is Lost) is set to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe where he’s set to take on the role of S.H.I.E.L.D. chief Alexander Pierce in the solo sequel Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Now, while we’re sure there’s more to his character than […]

If you’ve been following development of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 then you’ll probably have guessed this already due to the number of characters – and more specifically villains – that are set to feature, but director Marc Webb has described the upcoming solo sequel as “huge”, as well as “the most ambitious” Spider-Man movie to […]

August: Osage County, 2013. Directed by John Wells.Starring Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Chris Cooper. Ewan McGregor, Margo Martindale, Sam Shepard, Dermot Mulroney, Julianne Nicholson, Juliette Lewis, Abigail Breslin and Benedict Cumberbatch. SYNOPSIS: A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them […]

Matt Smith reviews the season two premiere of The Following… And so it returns. I think that’s how the followers of Joe Carroll would’ve preferred to say it, what with their grandiose entrance to a train carriage. At least after the longest ‘Previously on…’ in the history of television. What with that having to be […]

For someone contemplating his retirement a year ago, Kevin Smith has certainly found a new wave of inspiration, thanks in no small part to his various SModcast podcasts. Episodes have already inspired the upcoming horror Tusk and the kaiju Jesus feature Helena Handbag, and now Smith has announced that he’s working on another Christmas-themed horror […]

Last month it was announced that Paramount Pictures is to reboot The Naked Gun, with Ed Helms taking on the role of Sergeant Frank Drebin, Detective Lieutenant Police Squad, made famous of course by the legendary Leslie Nielsen in the 80s TV series Police Squad! and its subsequent movie trilogy. But, according to co-writer Ben […]

Sadé Green reviews the first two episodes of Girls season 3… Finally, the ‘voice of my generation’ is back and it is very welcome! Hannah, Jessa, Marnie and Shoshanna carried on their early-20’s exploits with hilariously funny consequences. The sometimes unrealistic series opened with a two-parter carrying on a few months from where season 2 […]

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, 2014. Directed by Kenneth Branagh.Starring Chris Pine, Keira Knightley, Kevin Costner, and Kenneth Branagh. SYNOPSIS: Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack. Since Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass left the Jason Bourne series, the franchise has really […]

Our weekly round up of the latest stories from the world of screen superheroes, including Batman vs. Superman, Justice League, Arrow, The Flash, Constantine, Son of Batman, Superman: Flyby, The Avengers: Age of Ultron, Guardians of the Galaxy, Ant-Man, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Marvel’s Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (and […]