Piers McCarthy reviews the third episode of The Walking Dead season three… I finished Episode 2’s review with: “could an unexpected event take place in episode 3? I’d count on it.” Episode 3 of The Walking Dead verified my idea that more of the unexpected was it on its way. I never imagined that the […]

Now that Christopher Nolan’s Batman saga has come to an end with the release of The Dark Knight Rises this past July, the future of Warner Bros.’ stable of DC Comics properties looks a little uncertain. Next year, Nolan, screenwriter David S. Goyer and director Zack Snyder will reboot Superman with the hotly-anticipated Man of […]

Academy Award-winning screenwriter Roger Avary (Pulp Fiction, Silent Hill) is to write and direct an adaptation of the World War II video game series Castle Wolfenstein. According to Deadline, the project is envisioned as “in the vein of Captain America and Inglourious Basterds [and is] about a young U.S. Army Captain and a British Special […]

October 30th, 2012 will be a day long remembered for Star Wars fans, with The Walt Disney Company purchasing Lucasfilm for $4 billion, and announcing plans to continue the epic space opera with Star Wars Episode VII – the first instalment of a new trilogy set to begin in 2015. Naturally, there’s been an absolute […]

Well, here’s a shock… despite reports last month that Sony Pictures Entertainment had given director Ivan Reitman the green light to shoot Ghostbusters III next summer, The Hollywood Reporter has now revealed that “any decision on Ghostbusters III, the long, long-gestating sequel, has been postponed until the end of March [2013] — this after Men […]

Benedict Cumberbatch (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, War Horse) is going to star as Brian Epstein in a biopic that tells the story of the manager of The Beatles. Epstein, who signed the band in 1961 and passed away in 1967 from an accidental drug overdose, is sometimes called “the fifth Beatle”. Todd Graff wrote the […]

Luke Owen on the possibilities for Star Wars and other Lucas-related properties following Disney’s acquisition of Lucasfilm… Last night while watching Arsenal getting battered three-nil by Reading, I went on to Twitter to gloat that my hometown team were beating a team that should be playing better (they eventually went on to lose in a […]

Men Behaving Badly 20th Anniversary Complete Collection Created by Simon Nye.Starring Martin Clunes, Neil Morrissey, Leslie Ash and Caroline Quentin. SYNOPSIS: Flatmates Gary and Tony are your typical “lads”, a pair of irresponsible, politically incorrect and seriously juvenile men who refuse to grown up and whose idea of heaven is sitting on the sofa, drinking […]

Luke Owen takes in a Halloween movie marathon… With 3 of our last 4 marathons being centred around horror movies, you’d think we’d move onto something else. But, with October being the month of Halloween (and a good way to end of my countdown special), it felt only right to tackle “The Shape” and his […]