Anghus Houvouras reviews Zero #3… “Shanghai, 2019. An opulent skyscraper party full of terrorists looking for fresh funding. Edward Zero is about to sabotage it big time — and then the skyscraper starts to vanish, bit by bit. So maybe he should look into that first?” My admiration for writer Ales Kot grows with each […]

Well, now that we’ve had confirmation of our first cast member for Star Wars: Episode VII (well, our first droid), it was only a matter of time before a few more actors were linked to J.J. Abrams’ eagerly-awaited first instalment of Disney’s Sequel Trilogy… According to a “fairly well-placed source” at Bleeding Cool, outgoing Doctor […]

Captain America: The Winter Soldier. X-Men: Days of Future Past. The Avengers: Age of Ultron. Seems that these days, you can’t have a big Marvel sequel without a subtitle, and that’s also the case for The Amazing Spider-Man 2, which has reportedly received the subtitle Rise of Electro… for its release in Brazil at least, […]

Every Wednesday, FM writers Simon Columb and Brogan Morris write two short reviews on Woody Allen films … in the hope of watching all his films over the course of roughly 49 weeks. If you have been watching Woody’s films and want to join in, feel free to comment with short reviews yourself! Next up […]

Anghus Houvouras reviews the eighth episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D…. It’s funny when something really right exposes so many wrongs.  I felt that way last night after watching the excellent Peter MacNicol appear as a guest star on the latest episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.  This episode was billed as a tie in to […]

We already know that Alan Taylor (Game of Thrones) wasn’t the only director to shoot scenes for Thor: The Dark World, with – SPOILER – Guardians of the Galaxy’s James Gunn filming the mid-credits sequence (much to Taylor’s displeasure). Well, now it’s been revealed that Tim Miller (who happens to be attached to Fox’s long-gestating Deadpool […]

Computer Chess, 2013. Directed by Andrew Bujalski.Starring Kriss Schludermann, Tom Fletcher and Wiley Wiggins. SYNOPSIS: Various programmers come together at a hotel in the early 1980s for a tournament in which they pit their computer software against each other in games of chess. ‘Mockumentary’ is a term that, while not quite pejorative, creates a pretty […]

British filmmaker Edgar Wright is currently doing the press rounds for his most recent film, the final instalment of the Cornetto trilogy, The World’s End, so over the next week or so expect to hear plenty about his upcoming Marvel adaptation Ant-Man, which is set to launch Phase Three of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in […]

Ikarie XB-1 (a.k.a. Voyage to the End of the Universe), 1963. Directed by Jindrich Polák.Starring Zdenek Stepánek, Frantisek Smolík, Dana Medrická, Irena Kacírková and Radovan Lukavský. SYNOPSIS:  The year is 2163. Starship Ikaria XB 1 embarks on a long journey across the Universe, to search for life on the planets of Alpha Centauri. In 2163, […]

While attending the 38th Toronto International Film Festival Trevor Hogg had the opportunity to chat with Rolfe Kent about composing the musical scores for Labor Day, Bad Words and Dom Hemingway…  I don’t know if it’s a gift or a need to do it,” observes Rolfe Kent (Wedding Crashers).   “When I heard something on the […]