Anghus Houvouras comes to the defense of the new look RoboCop… The Internet is a funny place. Because people claim it’s a place where people can go online and talk about things they like. In reality, it’s a place where people converge to scream bloody murder like neglected children over the most useless of topics. […]

With its latest comic book-inspired adaptation Arrow building a positive buzz ahead of its premiere next month, The CW has now turned its attention to another DC Comics character, with Vulture reporting that the network has started development on a small screen adaptation of Wonder Woman alongside DC and Warner Bros. Television. Entitled Amazon, the […]

Liam Trim reviews the first episode of the new series of Doctor Who… Warning: Spoilers! The build up to the new series of Doctor Who has been dominated by talk of bigger budgets, cinematic vision and blockbuster scale. Head writer and executive producer Steven Moffat loves a grand, complex narrative, and here he is laying […]

Piers McCarthy talks guilty pleasures… Recently I found myself watching the Ryan Reynolds/Amy Smart/Anna Faris rom-com, Just Friends. From the opening credits I realised there are better films I could give my time to; I could delve into the Kurosawa box-set I just bought, watch a classic Bogart movie, or even a different Ryan Reynolds […]

Our weekly round up of all the big news stories from the world of screen superheroes… Despite early reports indicating that The Dark Knight Rises was starting to fall off the pace box office-wise last weekend, Christopher Nolan’s Batman swansong responded with a strong second-weekend haul of $62 million in North America and looks set […]

With ABC set to team up with The Avengers director Joss Whedon for a superhero TV series set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, NBC is now looking to side with the bad guys as Deadline reports that the network has opted to move forward on a small screen adaptation of Adam Beechen and Manny Bello’s […]

Having previously announced that it’s to produce a Wrestlemania-themed Scooby-Doo movie to coincide with next year’s big wrestling showcase, WWE is now turning its attention to another beloved Hanna-Barbera cartoon, with Deadline revealing that WWE Studios is tagging up with Warner Bros. Animation for a direct-to-video Flintstones feature set around the world of Stone Age […]

Luke Owen on his favourite WWE / movie crossovers… With the recent news that WWE Studios and Warner Bros. are working on a new animated crossover between Scooby Doo and the stars of the WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment – formally WWF), I thought I’d delve into the world of professional wrestling and movie crossovers. This […]

With Disney set to unleash Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy and The Avengers 2 between now and 2015 (during which we’ll also see the arrival of Sony’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and Fox’s The Wolverine and X-Men Days of Future Past), there appears to […]

Chris Cooper discusses the new trailer for Skyfall (which you can see here)… Wow. There is a lot to take in here. Starting with a shot of M as she attempts to write an obituary for Bond (missing, believed dead), we are quickly informed by Mallory (Ralph Fiennes) that M was responsible for the loss […]