Mayday, 2013. Created by Ben Court and Caroline Ip.Starring Peter Firth, Peter McDonald, Leila Mimmack, Aidan Gillen, Sophie Okenedo, Lesley Manville, Max Fowler, Tom Fisher and Sam Spruell. SYNOPSIS: As a small community celebrates May Day, 14-year-old May Queen Hattie disappears. The BBC’s recent five-part thriller Mayday, shown on consecutive nights over one week last […]

Scanners: The Complete Collection DVD Box Set Scanners, 1981. Directed by David Cronenberg. Starring Stephen Lack, Jennifer O’Neill, Patrick McGoohan, Lawrence Dane and Charles Shamata. Scanners, for those who have not seen it – which was me – is a horror film which plays like a thriller, making for an interesting angle. The film wasn’t […]

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 #19… Superman II, 1980. Directed by Richard Lester.Starring Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman, Terence Stamp, Ned Beatty, Jack O’Halloran, Sarah Douglas, Valerie Perrine, Susannah York, Jackie Cooper, Marc […]

Piers McCarthy reviews the season 3 finale of The Walking Dead… Season 2 of The Walking Dead was saved by its finale, and the expectations for the third season are expectedly high. Major spoilers follow… We know the anger swelling up inside the Governor and our first shot of “Welcome to the Tombs” is his […]

Robb Ghag reviews Northlanders Vol. 7: The Icelandic Trilogy… “In this final epic from issues #42-50, young Ulf Hauksson takes over his clan’s settlement in a new land before moving on to a violent civil war that followed years later. “ In this final presentation of Northlanders we follow a family of immigrants and the […]

In the next instalment of the ‘Late to the Show’ series, Luke Addison looks at the first generation of Skins…. Having recently discussed the show with a friend of mine, I decided to revisit each generation of Skins once more, before the final iteration airs in July, supposedly wrapping up some of the stories from […]

Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir, 2011. Directed by Laurent Bouzereau. Starring Roman Polanski and Andrew Braunsberg. SYNOPSIS: Roman Polanski talks about being a Holocaust survivor who became a controversial public figure and an internationally acclaimed filmmaker. During the time Roman Polanski was under house arrest in Switzerland where he was to receive a life time achievement award […]

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 #20… Road to Perdition, 2002. Directed by Sam Mendes.Starring Tom Hanks, Jude Law, Paul Newman, Tyler Hoechlin, Daniel Craig, Stanley Tucci, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Liam Aiken, Dylan Baker, Ciaran […]

Our weekly round up of the latest stories from the world of screen superheroes, including Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy, Ant-Man, The Avengers 2, Doctor Strange, S.H.I.E.L.D., Justice League, Dark Universe, Man of Steel, X-Men: Days of Future Past, The Fantastic Four, Kick-Ass 2, […]

Robb Ghag reviews Thanos Rising #1… “The vile face left movie audiences in shock after last summer’s Marvel Studios’ ‘The Avengers‘ movie, but who is this eerily disturbing villain? Thanos rises as the unrivaled rogue of wretchedness in this gripping tale of tragedy, deceit and destiny. Where did this demi-god of death and destruction come […]