Well, Star Wars really is under new ownership. Rather than milking every last penny from the series, Deadline has revealed that Disney and Lucasfilm have made the decision to delay the planned 3D re-releases for Episodes II through VI in order to focus on “rebooting the franchise” with Star Wars: Episode VII, which is of […]

Cartoon Network has announced its schedule for 2013-2014, which includes the premieres of several new shows including Beware the Batman and Teen Titans Go!, which are expected to join the network’s DC Nation programming block, along with three LEGO Star Wars specials entitled The Yoda Chronicles.Here’s the official information on the three new shows…Teen Titans […]

Anghus Houvouras reviews the third issue of Marvel NOW!’s Avengers… “The New Adam is born! And on Mars, the battle between the Avengers and the Garden comes to its dramatic conclusion!“ The third issue of the re-launched Avengers series is kind of a puzzler.  Writer Jonathan Hickman has wrapped up his interplanetary threat in record […]

Lay the Favorite, 2012.Directed by Stephen Frears.Starring Bruce Willis, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rebecca Hall, Joshua Jackson, Vince Vaughn, Laura Prepon, John Carrol Lynch, Corbin Bersen and Frank Grillo.SYNOPSIS:An exuberant ex-private dancer Beth (Rebecca Hall) arrives in Las Vegas in search of her ultimate dream to become a cocktail waitress. Fate leads her to Dink (Bruce Willis), […]

Movie 43, 2013 Directed by Elizabeth Banks, Steven Brill, Steve Carr, Rusty Cundieff, James Duffy, Griffen Dunne, Peter Farrelly, Patrik Forsberg, James Gunn, Bob Odenkirk, Brett Ratner and Jonthan van Tulleken.Starring Kate Winslet, Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Naomi Watts, Anna Faris, Kieran Culkin, Halle Berry, Gerard Butler, Sean William Scott, Emma Stone, Richard Gere, Kate […]

False Trail (Jägarna 2), 2011. Directed by Kjell Sundvall.Starring Rolf Lassgård, Peter Stormare and Annika Nordin. SYNOPSIS: When a young girl goes missing, Erik Bäckström is called in to help with the investigation. Although a sequel to the 1996 Jägarna, False Trail (known in Sweden as Jägarna 2) never feels like the second part of a movie series. Instead, […]

Holy Motors, 2012.Written and Directed by Leos Carax.Starring Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, Eva Mendes, Kylie Minogue, Elise Lhomeau and Michel Piccoli.SYNOPSIS:A day in the life of Monsieur Oscar (Lavant), a man travelling in his limousine to a string of ‘appointments’ where, in each, he takes on a new identity and agenda.One of the leading film […]

The Vicious Brothers’ horror sequel Grave Encounters 2 arrives on DVD here in the UK on Monday, February 4th and to celebrate the release we have three copies of the film to give away to our readers courtesy of the lovely folks at Metrodome Distribution.Read on for a synopsis and details of how to enter […]

To Walk with Lions, 1999.Directed by Carl Schultz.Starring John Michie, Richard Harris, Kerry Fox, Ian Bannen, Hugh Quarshie, Honor Blackman and Geraldine Chaplin.SYNOPSIS:An arrogant young man (Michie) travelling through Africa crosses paths with George Adamson (Harris), a world-famous lion tamer. Adamson employs Tony and teaches him about the lions and land. Oscar-winning Born Free was […]

Kirsty Capes reviews the fourth episode of Downton Abbey season 3… The Crawley girls aren’t having a good time of it at the moment. This episode Mary and Matthew are still worrying about the fact they haven’t conceived yet, and Matthew starts to wonder if it’s down to him. When Sybil goes into labour and […]