As Microsoft announces the Xbox One, Andy Naylor compares the two big players in the next generation of video game consoles… After Sony’s unveiling of the PS4 (well not the actual console, that’s still to come), it was Microsoft’s turn to reveal their new next-gen gaming console. Ladies and Gentlemen let me introduce you to […]

Gary Collinson reviews G.I. Joe: The Cobra Files #2…. “SNAKES AND TIGERS! A break-in at a top-secret research base sends the covert G.I. JOE team into action—and CHAMELEON, eager to redeem herself, takes charge! But what she and FLINT uncover will lead the team straight into the jaws of an enemy unlike any other: a […]

Behind the Candelabra, 2013. Directed by Steven Soderbergh.Starring Michael Douglas, Matt Damon, Rob Lowe, Dan Aykroyd, and Scott Bakula. SYNOPSIS: An intimate study of Liberace’s five-year relationship with Scott Thorson. It is hard to believe, watching Behind the Candelabra, that the word bling was not coined in Liberace’s honour. This man was the king – […]

The Great Beauty (Italian: La grande bellezza), 2013. Written and Directed by Paolo Sorrentino.Starring Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone and Sabrina Ferilli. SYNOPSIS: Jep Gambardella, doyen of the chattering classes, undergoes an existential crisis. Paolo Sorrentino, riding high on previous successes, most notably Il Divo, comes to Cannes with a Roman tale of Jep Gambardella (Toni […]

Epic, 2013. Directed by Chris Wedge.Featuring the voice talents of Amanda Seyfried, Colin Farrell, Josh Hutcherson, Christoph Waltz, Aziz Ansari, Chris O’Dowd, Pitbull, Jason Sudeikis, Steven Tyler, and Beyoncé Knowles. SYNOPSIS: A teenager finds herself transported to a deep forest setting where a battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil is […]

Luke Owen reviews the first issue of Half Past Danger… DAMES. DINOSAURS. DANGER. Summer, 1943, and in the midst of a war waged by monsters, Staff Sergeant Tommy ‘Irish’ Flynn never expected to encounter a real one. But on a remote island in the South Pacific, Flynn and his squad come face-to-fanged-face with creatures long […]

Luke Owen reviews The New Ghostbusters #4… They’re BACK! The original boys in gray have escaped captivity, but their captors—the demonic entities know as the Collectors—aren’t going to just let the Ghostbusters get away with a jailbreak! It’ll take all the wits at the disposal of both teams to keep Ray, Peter, Winston and Egon […]

Luke Owen reviews the first part of Dark Cyberton in Transformers: Robots in Disguise #17… SHOCKWAVES! The fate of Cybertron is sealed—but what is the DECEPTICON scientist called SHOCKWAVE planning? After the stunning revelations in MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE, learn the origin of the one-eyed, gun-handed master of machinations… and the countdown begins for […]

Fast & Furious 6, 2013. Directed by Justin Lin.Starring Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson, Luke Evans, Michelle Rodriguez, Elsa Pataky, Jordana Brewster and Gina Carano. SYNOPSIS: The gang of car thieves and illegal street racers are brought out of retirement to face a global menace…and track down a long-lost member. This sixth (yes sixth) […]

Brogan Morris on his favourite movie soundtrack…. Picking a best of anything always causes me more anxiety than it should – it’s my personal favourite of something, and so what? Every film fan’s got one. But it feels like ‘favourite movie soundtrack’ is one I have to get absolutely right. There are so, so many; […]