Matt Smith reviews the seventh episode of True Detective… True Detective, the first show where I’ve had to actively avoid spoilers, is also probably the only show where if I just watch it progress, I can’t tell if it’s going to carry on after a first season or if the show will end next week. […]
The Marvel Moviemaking Model: Can it be stopped?
Anghus Houvouras asks whether the Marvel moviemaking model can be stopped… The Avengers was a cultural milestone. A movie that rewarded comic fans and validated Kevin Feige’s strategy to bring Marvel’s most famous characters to the big screen. After the record box office opening and a positive reaction from audiences, people began to wonder how […]
Why Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. doesn’t deserve a second season
Anthony Stokes on why Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. doesn’t deserve a second season… Sometimes the geek community will get behind something and defend it to the death, while others are left scratching their heads wondering why. There are a number of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. fans – or as I like to call them ” apologists” […]
Special Features – The Franchise Apocalypse: The zombiefication of Hollywood
Anghus Houvouras on the zombiefication of Hollywood… Your favorite childhood movie; they’re remaking it. That TV show you loved so dearly; it’s being rebooted. Those action figures that you spent countless hours creating adventures with, it’s coming to a screen near you. If there’s something that at one point made a BLIP on the pop […]
Second Opinion – Noah (2014)
Noah, 2014. Directed by Darren Aronofsky. Starring Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, Emma Watson, Logan Lerman, Douglas Booth, Nick Nolte, Mark Margolis and Kevin Durand. SYNOPSIS: A man is chosen by his world’s creator to undertake a momentous mission to rescue the innocent before an apocalyptic flood cleanses the wicked from the […]
The Following Season 2 – Episode 11 Review
Matt Smith reviews episode 11 of The Following season 2… Belief that things are going to get better is what keeps us going in life. A better job, a better lifestyle, better things in our lives. It’s like we can’t sit back and just enjoy life. Someone who takes that to the next level is […]
Elementary Season 2 – Episode 16 Review
Matt Smith reviews the sixteenth episode of Elementary season 2… For all his behavioural quirks and social ineptitude, Elementary’s iteration of Sherlock Holmes dresses impeccably well. Linking to his presentation of the facts, everything is laid out neat and where it should be. Where, perhaps, it shouldn’t be is this week’s main problem for Sherlock […]
Disney booting up Wreck-It Ralph 2
We knew it was on the cards – a global box office haul of $471 million pretty much guaranteed it – but now it’s official… kind of. Speaking to Collider about his work on Captain America: The Winter Soldier, composer Henry Jackman has confirmed that Disney is working on a follow-up to 2012’s animated comedy […]
Key and Peele to reboot Police Academy
According to Variety, New Line Cinema has taken a step forward with its plans to reboot the Police Academy franchise, tapping comedians Keegan Michael Key and Jordan Peele to oversee a new version of the once-popular comedy series alongside original creator Paul Maslansky. The original Police Academy – which featured the likes of Steve Guttenberg, […]
R.I.P. Mickey Rooney (1920 – 2014)
Legendary American actor and entertainer Mickey Rooney has passed away aged 93, it has been reported. Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1920, the former child star began his career in the entertainment industry aged just one year old and went on to enjoy a career spanning ten decades, which saw him receive multiple awards […]
