Have you ever stopped to think about it? Perhaps 3D isn’t a medium. Perhaps it’s actually a genre; one with its own stylistics, conventions and tones. Where Film Noir exhibits the interplay between light and shadow, 3D makes things fly at your face. Funny or Die think as much in one of their latest skits: […]

The Dark Knight Rises, 2012. Directed by Christopher Nolan. Starring Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Anne Hathaway, Tom Hardy, Marion Cotillard and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. SYNOPSIS: After an eight year self-imposed exile following the death of Harvey Dent, The Batman must return to face the threat of Bane and the mystery of Selina Kyle. Batman […]

When Twentieth Century Fox put the brakes on the 24 feature film back in March, it was starting to look like Kiefer Sutherland’s counter-terrorist machine Jack Bauer may have choked out his last bad guy and given his last word. The official line was ‘budgetary concerns’ and ‘scheduling issues’, with sources indicating that Fox wanted […]

Trevor Hogg chats with visual effects supervisors Richard Stammers, Charley Henley, Martin Hill, and Paul Butterworth; visual effects producers Michelle Eisenreich, and Unjoo Byars; executive producer Jason Bath, creative director Ahmet Ahmet, 3D cg supervisor Lee Nelson, 3D design lead Dong Ho Lee and Territory Founder / Director David Sheldon-Hicks… “I worked with Ridley [Scott] […]

British filmmaker Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) has signed on to direct a science fiction film called Collider, which is also being produced by J.J. Abrams’ (Lost, Star Trek) Bad Robot for Paramount Pictures. Although little is known about the project (which comes as no surprise given Abrams’ knack for secrecy), Collider […]

The Philly Kid, 2012. Directed by Jason Connery. Starring Wes Chatham, Devon Sawa, Sarah Butler, Chris Browning, Lucky Johnson, Kristopher Van Varenburg, Neal McDonough, Adam Mervis and Michael Jai White. SYNOPSIS: After ten years in prison, former championship wrestler Dillon (Chatham) forces himself back into the fighting circuit in order to save the life of […]

According to Deadline, producer Marc Rosen and director Martin Campbell are set to reboot the cult British sci-fi series Blake’s 7, which was originally created by Terry Nation (the man behind Doctor Who‘s classic villains The Daleks) and ran for four series on the BBC between 1978 and 1981. The series centred on a group […]

So, we’ve known for a while that Christopher Nolan would call time on his stewardship of the Batman franchise with the release of The Dark Knight Rises, and he’s already stated that also includes Warner Bros.’ potential Justice League feature, but is there a chance that the British filmmaker could be tempted back to Gotham […]

Martin Deer looks forward to the return of Superman as the first teaser trailer arrives for Man of Steel… Think. Think about what you felt when you watched the Man of Steel trailer. What emotions ran through you? Last week we were treated to the first poster from the film, which I loved. I’d seen […]

Airborne, 2012. Directed by Dominic Burns. Starring Mark Hamill, Craig Conway, Billy Murray, Sebastian Street, Simon Phillips, Alan Ford, Julian Glover, Gemma Atkinson and Rita Ramnani. SYNOPSIS: Hell literally breaks loose on board a Trans-Atlantic flight when an ancient evil is unleashed at 30,000 feet. Direct-to-DVD director Dominic Burns is back with another low budget […]