Potential X-Men: Days of Future Past and X-Men: Apocalypse spoilers ahead…. Bryan Singer had barely hit the tweet button on his big reveal that X-Men: Apocalypse is set to hit cinemas in 2016 before several websites popped up claiming to have the inside scoop on plot details, most notably a report about the end credit […]

Simon Columb reviews Election from BFI Southbank’s Alexander Payne retrospective… Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach. So the age-old saying goes. Election, Alexander Payne’s second feature, hit cinema screens in 1999 and immediately found a fan-base by deconstructing this mantra and showing it in all its school-emblem colours. Kicking off Reese Witherspoon’s career […]

Despite the fact that J.J. Abrams has vacated the director’s chair in favour of Star Wars: Episode VII, Paramount Pictures is wasting little time in moving Star Trek 3 up to full impulse power, with The Hollywood Reporter revealing that screenwriters J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay will join Robert Orci in penning the script for […]

Fans of Peter Berg’s The Rundown should rejoice for the director has revealed that he is currently developing a sequel to the Dwayne Johnson / Seann William Scott action comedy. Although it was met with an almost universal shrug of the shoulders from critics, the 2003 film has seemingly become a cult classic and Berg […]

Universal’s action samurai fantasy 47 Ronin made its debut in Japan this weekend, taking just £1.3 million from 33 locations. Although making more than both Captain Phillips and RED 2, the $170 million epic looks set for a doomed U.S. opening this coming Christmas. 47 Ronin has been long in the works, with the release […]

The home entertainment release of Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives has been no stranger to the interactive experience. Following Empire Magazine’s competition for one lucky reader to design the cover of the Steelbook Blu-ray edition, Only God Forgives has stirred up a new interactive phenomenon on YouTube for audiences. This coincides with last week’s […]

Over the weekend Amy Adams attended the premiere of David O. Russell’s American Hustle, but – following last week’s big announcement that Gal Gadot (Fast & Furious) has secured the role of Wonder Woman in Batman vs. Superman – much of the topic of conversation during the press interviews surrounded Zack Snyder’s upcoming Man of […]

Sony has released the first image of Denzel Washington as Robert McCall in the upcoming big screen adaptation of The Equalizer, which reteams the Oscar-winning actor with Training Day director Antoine Fuqua; check it out here via Rope of Silicon… Based on the 80s TV show starring Edward Woodward, The Equalizer also features Chloe Grace […]