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 […]

Taken 2, 2012. Directed by Olivier Megaton.Starring Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen and Rade Šerbedžija. SYNOPSIS: Retired CIA agent Bryan Mills and his wife are taken hostage by a gang seeking revenge against Mills for his actions during the rescue of his daughter. Taken 2 is the worst film of the year and every […]

Sister (French: L’enfant d’en haut), 2012. Directed by Ursula Meier.Starring Kacey Mottet Klein, Gillian Anderson and Léa Seydoux. SYNOPSIS: A sad tale about a young boy who financially supports his deadbeat sister. Simon (Kacey Mottet Klein) is one streetwise kid. He runs a one-man thievery scheme at a Swiss resort in the Alps, selling stolen […]

Now that director Marc Webb has officially signed on to helm a sequel to this year’s web-spinning reboot The Amazing Spider-Man, it seems that Sony are pressing full-steam ahead with casting on the follow-up. According to Variety, Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone) will be getting some competition for Peter Parker’s (Andrew Garfield) affections in the form […]

Last month, it was announced that 20th Century Fox would follow Marvel Studios’ lead by bringing in a creative consultant to oversee the development of its future superhero movie slate, with Scottish comic book writer Mark Millar (Wanted, Kick-Ass) taking on responsibility for the studio’s upcoming Marvel output. During the New York Comic Con, Word […]

Frankenweenie, 2012. Directed by Tim Burton.Featuring the voice talents of Charlie Tahan, Winona Ryder, Robert Capron, Martin Landau, Christopher Lee, Martin Short, Conchata Ferrell, Catherine O’Hara, Tom Kenny and Atticus Shaffer. SYNOPSIS: A young scientist conducts an experiment to bring his beloved dog back to life, only to find himself facing up to unintended – […]

Doomsday Book, 2012. Written and Directed by Jee-woon Kim and Pil-Sung Yim.Starring Doona Bae, Seung-beom Ryu, Sae-byuk Song, Kang-woo Kim, Joon-ho Bong and Ji-hee Jin. SYNOPSIS: Three short films, together making an anthology. One chapter concerns a young man who becomes a zombie. Another shows the anarchic and zany troubles a family run into at […]

Stan Lee Media, Inc. – a former company of comic book legend Stan Lee – has filed a copyright infringement complaint against Disney over the rights to Lee’s Marvel Comics creations, including Spider-Man, X-Men and The Avengers, and are seeking to gain control of said properties, as well as a slice of the alleged $5.5 billion […]