Our weekly round-up of the big news stories from the world of movie superheroes… Although we’ll be touch upon the likes of The Dark Knight Rises, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Wolverine and Daredevil in this edition of The Week in Spandex, the past week has been dominated by The Avengers, with Joss Whedon’s epic superhero […]

28 Weeks Later, 2007. Directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. Starring Robert Carlyle, Catherine McCormack, Imogen Poots, Mackintosh Muggleton, Rose Byrne and Jeremy Renner. SYNOPSIS: Six months after the rage virus crippled England, an American military team enters the country to help re-establish the population. I’ve already addressed the terminology controversy in my review for 28 […]

Luke Owen reports from yesterday’s Avengers Assemble UK press conference… With just under a week to go before the release of The Avengers (Assemble), the majority of the cast held a press conference in London to answer questions about the movie. In attendance were producers Kevin Feige and Jeremy Latcham and stars Mark Ruffalo, Tom […]

The Twilight films are a divisive franchise. Some would like to repeatedly ram a crucifix shaped stake through the heart of the teen focused series, until it disintegrates into ashes. Others wish that the vampire fuelled angst would never end. Similarly (kind of), the Cannes film festival can split cinemagoers down the middle into two […]

The Road to the Avengers comes to an end as Luke Owen reviews Marvel’s Avengers Assemble… The Avengers (a.k.a. Avengers Assemble), 2012. Written and Directed by Joss Whedon. Starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Hiddleston, Clark Gregg, Cobie Smulders, Stellan Skarsgård, Gwyneth Paltrow […]

Acts of Godfrey, 2012. Written and Directed by Johnny Daukes. Starring Simon Callow, Iain Robertson, Harry Enfield, Doom Mackichan and Ian Burfield. SYNOPSIS: God (Simon Callow) presents us a story (in verse), mainly following Victor (Iain Robertson) at a business seminar but bringing in others and slowly revealing how every single one of them is […]

Simon Moore reviews the fifth episode of the Napoleon Dynamite animated series… Some things are so smacked-out stone-cold crazy they simply have to be real. No, not The X Factor. I still insist that’s a mass hallucination we can’t wake up from. I refer instead to the Annual Preston Bed Races. This is simply one […]

Saw, 2003. Directed by James Wan. Produced by Darren McFarlane. Written by James Wan and Leigh Whannell. Starring Leigh Whannell, Paul Moder, Katrina Mathers and Dean Francis. Having written a feature length horror script after meeting while studying at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, up-and-coming filmmakers James Wan and Leigh Whannell decided to produce […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial, 1982. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Starring Dee Wallace, Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore and Robert MacNaughton. E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial is another blockbuster from Spielberg and an 80s classic that tells the story of a lonely […]

Luke Owen on last night’s episode of The Apprentice 2012… In the business world, there are winners and losers. Sometimes the winners don’t deserve to win and sometimes the losers don’t deserve to lose. That was the story of this week’s Apprentice. Lord Sugar called our teams to a sports hall which is apparently a big […]