Luke Owen reviews the latest issue of Mars Attacks… In the small town of Tortilla Flats, New Mexico, events are unfolding that could change the direction of the war. What the heck do a boy and a former mobster have to do with it? I’ve been really impressed with this Mars Attacks series and felt […]

Blake’s 7, the iconic BBC show created by Terry Nation which ran between 1978 and 1981 has been picked up by FremantleMedia International to remade in the U.S. The original show followed Roj Blake (Gareth Thomas); classed as a political dissident he was arrested and tried on false charges thus being deported from Earth. Along […]

John Lucking reviews the first episode of Hannibal…. The Brett Ratner directed Red Dragon opens with Edward Norton’s profiler Will Graham realising that the man he’s been working with to bring down serial killers, Hannibal Lecter, is in fact himself a murderous cannibal. A struggle ensues and Lecter is captured, with Will Graham retiring and […]

Villordsutch reviews Doctor Who Classics #2… “This series presents Doctor Who strips never before reprinted, and in color for the very first time! In this issue, the complete “Invaders of Gantac” story featuring the Seventh Doctor, written by Alan Grant (Judge Dredd, Batman)!“ From the pen of the great Alan Grant (Judge Dredd, Lobo, Batman […]

Throughout April, we’re counting down to the release of Marvel’s Iron Man 3 with our picks for the Greatest Comic Book Movies of All Time; here’s #17… Men in Black, 1997. Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld.Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Vincent D’Onofrio, Linda Fiorentino, Rip Torn, Tony Shalhoub and Mike Nussbaum. While Joel Schumacher was […]

Paul Risker continues his Terry Gilliam retrospective…. Seven years would elapse between the release of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) and The Brothers Grimm (2005). As there should be with any great storyteller, there is a story behind what is a magic number at this point in Gilliam’s career. In the seven years […]

20th Century Fox’s found-footage super-powers flick Chronicle was one of the big surprise hits of last year, so it didn’t come as much of a shock when Fox announced that Chronicle 2 was in development. While director Josh Trank opted against a return – moving on instead to helm the upcoming reboot The Fantastic Four […]

This morning we got our first TV spot for Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel in preparation for the upcoming second trailer, and in an interview with Collider promoting 42, Legendary Pictures CEO Thomas Tull has been full of praise for the movie. “It’s the Superman movie I’ve always wanted to see” he said. ” I […]

Gary Collinson reviews G.I. Joe: The Cobra Files #1…. “A SNAKE IN THEIR MIDST! Her name is CHAMELEON — and she used to be a COBRA agent. Now she’s made her way into the G.I. JOE team—the honest way. But even with the best of intentions, does she have what it takes to fight on […]

If you’ve been keeping up with the Iron Man 3 marketing campaign, you’ll know that Marvel Studios has been intent on spoiling a number of surprises from the upcoming solo sequel (we’ll not get into specifics here, for those of you looking to remain spoiler free), but one thing that has been kept under wraps […]