Luke Owen on the latest issue of Godzilla: The Half Century War… I said in my Godzilla Issue #6 review that Godzilla: The Half Century War was getting a lot of praise from critics and fans alike and to be honest, I didn’t quite get it at first. One review I read of Issue #1 […]

Gemma Arterton (Clash of the Titans, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time) has signed on and Benedict Cumberbatch (War Horse, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) is in talks to star in the long-gestating comedy Absolutely Anything, which most of the Monty Python team are involved with. The film follows a teacher who discovers he has […]

Trevor Hogg chats with Australian documentarians Justin McMillan and Chris Nelius about Storm Surfers 3D… Russ Clarke-Jones and Tom Carroll When he had his first meeting with Australian tow-surfing legend Russ Clarke-Jones seven years ago, little did filmmaker Justin McMillan realize that their creative relationship would result in four documentaries.  “We pitched on Russ’ life […]

Argo, 2012. Directed by Ben Affleck.Starring Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Taylor Schilling, Kyle Chandler, John Goodman, Alan Arkin, Clea DuVall, Zeljko Ivanek, Tate Donovan and Victor Garber. SYNOPSIS: A CIA operative concocts an audicious plan to rescue six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador during the Iranian revolution.   […]

Luke Graham reviews the latest 2000 AD prog… Prog 1807 is a very special issue of 2000AD. Not to give too much away, but it was the first time in my reading of the comic where the strips… crossed over. Cross-overs, where characters from one series appear in another series, are ubiquitous in American Marvel […]

Jake Wardle selects his top ten movie presidents… As the US of A nears the end of a near 2-year election campaign, they face a choice, an enormous, historic choice, between the charismatic, compassionate Barack Obama and the Tyrell Corporation’s most sophisticated android, Willard Mitt Romney. The polls point to a close result, but whoever […]

Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist, 1997 Directed by Kirby DickStarring Bob Flanagan, Sheree Rose SYNOPSIS: Documentary on the performance artist, writer, musician and cystic fibrosis sufferer Bob Flanagan. Oh, and he’s a ‘supermasochist’, too. Bob Flanagan cuts a frail figure. His eyes bulge slightly from his face and blue veins push […]

With the massive success of the first two Expendables films it comes as no surprise that a third movie is in development and just about every action star over the age of fifty years old has been rumored to be circling a role, including the likes of Clint Eastwood (Gran Torino), Harrison Ford (Star Wars) […]

The Flickering Myth writing team trade opinions on the future of Star Wars following Disney’s acquisition of Lucasfilm and the announcement of Episode VII… How much would you pay for exclusive ownership of your very own film franchise? If you’re a lifelong fan of said franchise a precise figure is probably impossible to calculate. For […]

Argo, 2012. Directed by Ben Affleck.Starring Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Taylor Schilling, Kyle Chandler, John Goodman, Zeljko Ivanek, Alan Arkin, Clea DuVall, Tate Donovan and Victor Garber. SYNOPSIS: A dramatization of the 1980 joint CIA-Canadian secret operation to extract six fugitive American diplomatic personnel out of revolutionary Iran. It’s the 4th of November 1979, the […]