Our weekly round-up of all the big news stories from the world of movie superheroes… Although The Avengers finally arrived on North American shores yesterday, we’ll start things off this week with the third and final trailer for The Dark Knight Rises, which hit the internet earlier on Tuesday following a viral campaign that included […]

Luke Graham dissects the latest trailer for Sony’s The Amazing Spider-Man… So the third and presumably final trailer for Sony’s reboot of the Spider-Man franchise is now online… and I’m still feeling more apprehensive than amazed by what’s on show. To explain my problems with this project, let’s go through the trailer, which you can […]

Hulk, 2003. Directed by Ang Lee. Starring Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly, Sam Elliott, Nick Nolte, and Josh Lucas. SYNOPSIS: An accident results in a scientist turning into a big green monster whenever he gets angry. The question I’m left pondering once the credits have rolled is – was Ang Lee the right person to direct […]

Commenting on the critics with Simon Columb… Oliver Gettell, for the LA Times, writes: “You’d think a tough guy like super-spy Nick Fury, the ringleader of the titular all-star superhero team in The Avengers, would have pretty thick skin. But it turns out Fury, or at least the actor who plays him, Samuel L. Jackson, […]

D.J. Haza presents the final entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Top Gun, 1986. Directed by Tony Scott. Starring Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards, Tom Skerritt, Michael Ironside and Meg Ryan. Top Gun is possibly the coolest film ever made. It has the coolest characters – fighter […]

Gary Collinson presents an outlandish theory on The Dark Knight Rises… As I’m sure you’re already aware, a new trailer arrived online for The Dark Knight Rises this week and after months and months of speculation, we’re now starting to get some kind of idea about the story for the epic conclusion to Christopher Nolan’s […]

Luke Owen on last night’s episode of The Apprentice 2012… If I’ve strategy learned anything from strategy this week’s Apprentice strategy, it’s that strategy having a strategy is a solid plan when strategy starting a business strategy, but strategy saying it over and over again can strategy become incredible annoying. Strategy. Yes, this week’s Apprentice […]

The Avengers (a.k.a. Avengers Assemble), 2012. Written and Directed by Joss Whedon. Starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Hiddleston, Clark Gregg, Cobie Smulders, Stellan Skarsgård, Gwyneth Paltrow and Paul Bettany. SYNOPSIS: When an alien being arrives and threatens the planet, a plan must […]

D.J. Haza presents the penultimate entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Nil By Mouth, 1997. Directed by Gary Oldman. Starring Ray Winstone, Kathy Burke, Charlie Creed-Miles and Laila Morse. Nil By Mouth is the dark and gritty tale of a family living on a London council estate and explores working […]