Luke Owen on last night’s episode of The Apprentice 2012… I remember a couple of years back, Radio 1 DJ Matt Edmundson proclaimed on his Apprentice video blog, “the fit one’s gooooooooone!” when one of the pretty candidates was fired. I didn’t quite do that yesterday (my girlfriend was in the room) but I did […]

Memory Lane, 2011. Directed by Shawn Holmes. Starring Michael Guy Allen and Meg Barrick. SYNOPSIS: When Nick (Allen) finds his fiancé dead, he routinely travels to the afterworld in order to find out who murdered her. He does this by stopping and starting his heart over and over again. Okay, let’s get this out of […]

Following on from the arrival of the third trailer for The Dark Knight Rises last week, I put together a short article for Robert Hale Book Blog about the various screen incarnations of the Caped Crusader. Full disclosure: it was written to promote the upcoming release of my book, ‘Holy Franchise, Batman! Bringing the Caped […]

From the moment it was announced that Inception stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Marion Cotillard were to reunite with director Christopher Nolan for The Dark Knight Rises, there’s been a tonne of speculation over the identity of their characters, ‘John Blake’ and ‘Miranda Tate’. Actually, that’s not quite true… there’s been a tonne of speculation over […]

Oliver Davis reviews the sixth episode of Game of Thrones Season Two… The Old Gods and the New. Directed by David Nutter. Written by Vanessa Taylor. Last week’s episode felt flat. Neither the writing or direction excelled. Thankfully, The Old Gods and the New is arguably the best episode of Season 2 thus far. It […]

Trevor Hogg chats with illustrator Livio Ramondelli about his Transformers work as well as his love for comic books and movies… “I’m originally from Pennsylvania, I moved to California to get my Masters and have been out here ever since,” states Illustrator Livio Ramondelli who comes from a family more involved with medicine and finance […]

Commenting on the critics with Simon Columb… This weeks ‘quote’ is very short, from Edgar Wright, on Twitter… Received this in the mail. What can it mean? twitpic.com/9hnn6t — edgarwright (@edgarwright) May 5, 2012 There is no full article to read on this, despite a little coverage on /Film. Avengers Assemble has made over $200m […]

Matt Smith chats with British writer-director Kieron Hawkes about his debut feature, Piggy… Piggy, set in modern day London, follows Joe (Martin Compston) as he attempts to get revenge against those who murdered his brother. He’s helped by the titular character Piggy (Paul Anderson), in a violence-fuelled quest to avenge. I’d pretty much stumbled into […]

Piggy, 2012. Written and Directed by Kieron Hawkes. Starring Paul Anderson, Martin Compston, Josh Herdman, Neil Maskell and Louise Dylan. SYNOPSIS: Joe (Compston) struggles with the fear he feels living in modern day London. After his brother is murdered by a bunch of thugs, he comes across a mysterious stranger named Piggy (Anderson) who persuades […]

You know you’ve got a good thing going when your most recent movie shattered all box office records on its way to a global haul of almost $2.8 billion, and it’s completely natural that you’ll want to exploit this further. However, Avatar director James Cameron has decided to go one step further, telling the New […]