Antiviral, 2012. Directed by Brandon Cronenberg.Starring Caleb Landry Jones, Sarah Gadon, Malcolm McDowell, Douglas Smith, Joe Pingue and Nicholas Campbell. SYNOPSIS: In a celebrity obsessed future, a company sells viruses that have been harvested from celebrities. However, when an employee becomes infected with a lethal disease, he faces a race against the clock in order […]

Room 237, 2012. Directed by Rodney Ascher. SYNOPSIS: A documentary examining the enduring legacy of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining and the weird and wonderful theories related to the film’s subtexts that have arisen since its release. Famously, Stanley Kubrick’s psychological horror classic The Shining did not enjoy a terrific reception upon its release back in […]

Despite mixed reviews, there’s little doubt that Ridley Scott’s hotly-anticipated return to the sci-fi genre delivered the goods in terms of box office for 20th Century Fox, with the divisive Prometheus banking over $400 million world-wide. With those sort of returns, you can rest assured that the studio will be keen for Scott to push […]

Piers McCarthy reports on the BFI London Film Festival press conference for Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie… As conference moderator Chris Hewitt pointed out, Tim Burton is a beloved adopted Londoner. It seems only fair that after embracing the U.K’s capital as his home and bringing a heap of work to the British film industry that Burton […]

Here and There (Aquí y allá), 2012. Written and Directed by Antonio Mendez Esparza.Starring Pedro De los Santos, Teresa Ramírez Aguirre, Heidi Laura Solano Espinoza, Néstor Tepetate Medina, Noel Payno Vendíz, Carolina Prado Ángel, Nicolás Parra Quiroz and Lorena Guadalupe Pantaleón Vázquez. SYNOPSIS: A man travels back to his home in Mexico after working in […]

Part one of an updated two volume series titled Cinemas of the Other, A Personal Journey with Film-makers from Iran and Turkey explores what it is like to produce movies in two countries where government censorship is driven by politics and religious beliefs.  To give readers a firsthand account, author Gönül Dönmez-Colin has included interview […]

Martin Deer on the latest issue of Batman… Spoiler Warning: Plot points will be discussed. Suspenseful. Gripping. Terrifying. Incredible. All of the words above could be used to describe the latest issue of Batman from Scott Snyder, plus many many more if my grey cells had the sharpness of Greg Capullo’s art and my vocabulary […]

Carlton Cuse has agreed to develop a new television series for NBC based on the graphic novel series The Sixth Gun. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Cuse – the co-creator of Lost – and screenwriter Ryan Condal will executive produce the television series. The Sixth Gun is billed as a supernatural western and is described […]

Save Your Legs!, 2013. Directed by Boyd Hicklin.Starring Stephen Curry, Damon Gameau, Madeleine West, Pallavi Sharda,  David Lyons, Brenton Thwaites, Brendan Cowell, Darshan Jariwala, Eddie Baroo and Ryan O’Kane. SYNOPSIS: An Australian cricket team land the chance of a lifetime. They swap their D-grade park cricket for a tour of India, representing their country. Various […]

In his latest ‘State of the Genre’ column, Martin Deer ponders the future of The Amazing Spider-Man series… Last night I read some rather disconcerting news regarding the sequel to The Amazing Spider-Man, which is due to begin production next year for release in 2014. This news has me a little worried about the direction […]