Speaking to MTV at a press junket for his forthcoming Spaghetti Western homage Django Unchained, acclaimed filmmaker Quentin Tarantino has revealed that early in his career he planned to make a superhero film and toyed with the idea of bringing Marvel’s Luke Cage to the screen: “After Reservoir Dogs, I had considered doing a Luke […]

Trevor Hogg chats with Ramez Naam about the evolution of technology and his debut novel Nexus which arrives on North American bookshelves today…“I can’t remember ever not being fascinated by technology!” states Ramez Naam when recalling his childhood.  “I started learning to program when I was maybe 8 years old, on an antiquated Commodore Vic […]

Luke Owen reviews the fourth episode of Peep Show series eight…I’m beginning to run out of things to say about this series of Peep Show. After last week’s almost-good episode we’re met this week with another sort-of-good-but-not-really good episode. The first half was lousy but the second half almost saved it. However ultimately episode 4 was still […]

Robert Downy Jr. has spoken out about his love for Iron Man 3 director Shane Black at the 24 hour Cinefamily Telethon a few days ago and even spoke about how he was influential on the first Iron Man movie: “I adore him,” Downey Jr. said of the Kiss Kiss Bang Bang director. “I’ve been […]

With two financially successful instalments already under its belt, Lionsgate is looking to wheel out its collection of aging stars for another explosive action ensemble, with development already well underway on The Expendables 3. Earlier this year, producer Avi Learner revealed that Clint Eastwood, Harrison Ford, Wesley Snipes and Nicolas Cage were on the wishlist […]

Ruben Fleischer, whose re-edited Gangster Squad is finally getting a UK release in January, has told Coming Soon that one of his next projects could be an adaptation of video game franchise Spy Hunter – which he hopes will be ‘his James Bond’.“If I could make any movie, it would be James Bond,” he told […]

Life of Pi, 2012. Directed by Ang Lee. Starring Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Tabu, Adil Hussain, Gerard Depardieu and Rafe Spall.SYNOPSIS:A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey as he spends 227 days adrift in the Pacific with only a fearsome Bengal tiger for company.Published in 2001, Yann Martel’s Life […]

Commenting on the Critics with Simon Columb… Scott Mendelson joins the ranks of film critics knocking Peter Jackson down a peg for his first (of three) films of The Hobbit:“This first film, shamefully bloated and lacking in any justification for its padding, plays less like a theatrical cut, or even like an extended edition DVD […]

Anghus Houvouras reviews the first issue of Marvel NOW!’s Avengers… “The greatest heroes in comics together on one unbeatable team! The Avengers ‘go large,’ expanding their roster and their sphere of influence to a global and even interplanetary level. When Captain America puts out his call – who will answer? Big threats, big ideas, big […]

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