As Marvel gear up for ‘Phase Two’ of their Cinematic Universe, the studio has decided to freshen things up behind the camera with new directors for its latest round of solo superhero sequels. We already know that Shane Black (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang) has replaced Jon Favreau on the currently-in-production Iron Man 3, with Alan […]

The Return of the Living Dead, 1985. Written and Directed by Dan O’Bannon. Starring Clu Gulager, James Karen, Don Calfa, Thom Mathes, Beverly Randolph, John Philbin, Jewel Shepard, Miguel Nunez, Brian Peck and Linnea Quigley. SYNOPSIS: When a deadly gas is released at a medical supply warehouse, the dead are re-animated and immediately seek out […]

The second season of the hit HBO series Game of Thrones ended this week and one of its stars has just signed up to appear in a new film called Greenland Time at Sigma / Zentropa. Kit Harington, who plays Jon Snow, will star opposite Vera Farmiga (Source Code, The Departed) in the psychological thriller […]

Luke Owen with five ways that Warner Bros. can get the Justice League movie right… As reported earlier today by the Batman of Flickering Myth, Gary Collinson, Warner Bros. are pushing forward with their Justice League movie that has been rumoured for quite some time now. In fact, back in 2007, WB came close to […]

Trevor Hogg chats with visual effects supervisors Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Bryan Grill, Simon Maddison, Dan Rosen, and Alessandro Cioffi as well as creative director Steve Viola about their work on The Avengers… “Marvel tends to overlap their film projects – their current M.O. seems to be to have three pictures on the go at […]

Legendary American writer Ray Bradbury passed away on Tuesday night in Los Angeles, aged 91. Born in Waukegan, Illinois in 1920, Bradbury began his career contributing short tales to various sci-fi and speculative fiction fanzines in his late teens, and went on to become one of the genre’s most celebrated authors, penning classics such as […]

With Ridley Scott currently doing the press rounds for last week’s Prometheus (Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron), many have asked him about the rumoured Blade Runner sequel in the works. In Collider’s interview with Scott, he described one scene already mapped out in his head. Listening to him, you get a sense of how his mind […]

In news that should come as no surprise whatsoever to anyone familiar with the box-office figures for Marvel’s The Avengers, Warner Bros. are said to be pressing ahead with plans for their own team-up, The Justice League, with screenwriter Will Beall (Gangster Squad) busy developing a script to bring DC’s stable of superheroes together on […]

Oliver Davis reviews the tenth episode of Game of Thrones Season Two… Valar Morghulis. Directed by Alan Taylor. Written by David Benioff & D.B. Weiss. Last week’s episode is a tough act to follow, almost entirely comprised of swords, blood and battle. HBO presumably let this one run 65 minute to compensate. Seven hells, you […]

Scott Davis takes a in-depth look at the most anticipated film of the summer, The Dark Knight Rises and discusses its potential box office power after the success of The Avengers, and the marketing boom that has exploded across the world over the last couple of weeks, in lieu of its impending release on July […]