Marvel Comics has announced that Brian Michael Bendis and Mike Deodato are reuniting for a new Secret Wars tie-in series entitled Guardians of Knowhere, which will take place on the disembodied Celestial head as it orbits Battleworld. “We’re gonna open up on a mystery in Knowhere,” Brian Michael Bendis tells EW. “And that mystery is going […]
American Sniper becomes the highest-grossing U.S. release of 2014
After opening in a handful of U.S. theaters in December in order to qualify for awards contention, Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper has now become the highest-grossing domestic release of 2014 with $337.2 million to date, knocking The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 down into second place. “The heroic story of Chris Kyle just hit […]
DVD Review – Assassin (2015)
Assassin, 2015. Directed by J.K. Amalou. Starring Danny Dyer, Anouska Mond, Gary Kemp, Martin Kemp, Holly Weston and Eddie Webber. SYNOPSIS: A hitman falls for a beautiful exotic dancer before discovering that his last hit was her dodgy businessman father, forcing him to turn against his ruthless employers to try and save her life. Is […]
Hate Crime director speaks on BBFC ban
Last week it was announced that the British Board of Film Classification has refused a certificate for Hate Crime, a home invasion horror about a Jewish family tormented by a group of cyrstal meth crazed neo-Nazi lunatics during a birthday celebration. Now director James Cullen Bressack has responded to the ban, and an article from […]
DVD Review – American Ghost Story (2015)
American Ghost Story, 2015. Directed by Joseph O’Brien. Starring David Hayter, Maria del Mar, Casey Hudecki, Frank Moore, Amanda Joy Lim, Adrienne Kress and Shara Kim. SYNOPSIS: A trio of kidnappers delivering their hostages to their boss take a detour along a deserted highway and incur the wrath of the demonic forces that dwell there. […]
Colin Trevorrow to direct sci-fi thriller Intelligent life
With Jurassic World set to open its gates this summer, director Colin Trevorrow has lined up his next project and is set to helm the sci-fi thriller Intelligent Life for DreamWorks. The project has been scripted by Trevorrow and his Safety Not Guaranteed and Jurassic World co-writer Derek Connolly, while Steven Spielberg and Frank Marshall […]
Marvel announces that Groot is getting his own comic book series
After his big screen debut last year in Guardians of the Galaxy, Marvel Comics has now announced that the anthropomorphic tree Groot is to head up his own solo series from writer Jeff Loveness and artist Brian Kesinger. When Rocket and Groot are on an intergalactic roadtrip and calamity strikes, the two get separated — […]
Hannibal season 3 to premiere on June 4th
After pushing the third season back to this summer, NBC has now announced that Hannibal will return to the network for its latest run of episodes on Thursday, June 4th… Hannibal season three features Mads Mikkelsen (Hannibal Lecter), Laurence Fishburne (Jack Crawford), Hugh Dancy (Will Graham), Caroline Dhavernas (Alana Bloom), Gillian Anderson (Bedelia Du Maurier), […]
Movie Review – Chappie (2015)
Chappie, 2015. Directed by Neill Blomkamp. Starring Hugh Jackman, Sharlto Copley, Dev Patel, Sigourney Weaver and Jose Pablo Cantillo. SYNOPSIS: In the near future, crime is patrolled by an oppressive mechanized police force. When one police droid, Chappie, is stolen and given new programming, he becomes the first robot with the ability to think and […]
The Week in Spandex – Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America: Civil War, Daredevil, Spider-Man, Wolverine, Suicide Squad, Green Lantern, Supergirl and more
In this edition of The Week in Spandex, we look at Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America: Civil War, Spider-Man, The Spectacular Spider-Man, Ant-Man, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Daredevil, A.K.A. Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Wolverine, Deadpool, Suicide Squad, Green Lantern, Gotham, The Flash, Arrow, Supergirl, Lucifer and more… The big news this week was the arrival […]
