Anghus Houvouras reviews the seventh episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D…. #CoulsonsARobot Halfway through the seventh episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Skye looks over to Simmons after an encounter with Coulson and says he is acting like, and I quote: “A robot version of himself.” Seriously, they’re not even trying anymore.  This is either […]

Trevor Hogg talks to production designer Andy Nicholson, production visual effects supervisor Tim Webber, visual effects supervisor Tony Clark, animation supervisor Max Solomon, compositing supervisor Mark Bakowski, compositing sequence lead Theo Groeneboom, and matchmove supervisor Amélie Guyot about getting lost in space with filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón. Beware there are spoilers… Andy Nicholson “I first met Alfonso Cuarón [Children […]

Silent Night, 2012 Directed by Steven C. Miller. Starring Malcolm McDowell, Jamie King, Donal Logue, Ellen Wong and Brenden Fehr. SYNOPSIS: The police force of a remote Midwestern town search for a killer Santa Claus who is picking off citizens on Christmas Eve. In the same vein that World War Z is a loose adaptation […]

Just last week Marvel Studios announced that it had sold five miniseries to Netflix, with Daredevil, Luke Cage, Iron Fist and Jessica Jones each receiving their own 13-episode series and building towards the small screen team-up The Defenders, and it seems that Marvel is wasting little time in securing talent for the ambitious project. According […]

British filmmaker Joe Wright (Anna Karenina, Atonement, Hanna) has signed up to direct an origin story for famed J.M. Barrie character Peter Pan. Currently on script duty is Jason Fuchs, who previously wrote Ice Age: Continental Drift, while Greg Berlanti (Arrow) is producing. This is one of three Peter Pan films currently in development with […]

Rob Reiner’s cult classic The Princess Bride looks set to be adapted for the stage by Disney Theatrical Productions. There is no word as to whether it will be a musical or a play but who wouldn’t want to see someone sing “My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” Variety […]

Controversial director Lars von Trier’s massively ambitious erotic double feature Nymphomaniac has been abandoned – or at least the softcore version of it has been. Von Trier’s original plan was a five-and-a-half-hour, two part sexual odyssey split into hardcore and softcore, but now both parts will be shown with explicit scenes after the director gave […]

Joe Utichi chats with Michael Fassbender about The Counselor…. Having fast become one of the leading lights of his generation of actors, Michael Fassbender adds Ridley Scott’s The Counsellor to an impressive string of roles in films as diverse as they are popular and critically acclaimed. He broke through in Zack Snyder’s 2006 blockbuster 300 […]

Having kicked off a Cinematic Universe this year with Man of Steel, it’s clear that Warner Bros. is looking to capitalise on its roster of DC Comics superheroes in an effort to make up ground on Marvel Studios; Zack Snyder rocked Comic-Con with the announcement that The Dark Knight would join Henry Cavill’s Man of […]

The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman’s upcoming Image / Skybound comic book Outcast is heading to TV, with cable network Cinemax winning the rights to the exorcism drama after a bidding war. Kirkman is set to write the script for the pilot episode and will executive producer the series with David Alpert (The Walking Dead) […]