Tom Jolliffe on the second coming of Jean-Claude Van Damme in The Expendables 2 and the muscular thunder he looks set to steal… Jean-Claude Van Damme was just a fresh faced young Belgian with a pocket full of dreams when he left his home to try his luck in America… and his pockets had plenty […]

Luke Graham dissects the latest trailer for Sony’s The Amazing Spider-Man… So the third and presumably final trailer for Sony’s reboot of the Spider-Man franchise is now online… and I’m still feeling more apprehensive than amazed by what’s on show. To explain my problems with this project, let’s go through the trailer, which you can […]

Trevor Hogg chats with Academy Award-nominated visual effects supervisor Nick Davis… “It was more by accident that I fell into that side of the industry,” states British Visual Effects Supervisor Nick Davis when discussing his career choice which he made two decades ago. “It was a great place where you can learn all aspects 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 […]

Gary Collinson presents an outlandish theory on The Dark Knight Rises… As I’m sure you’re already aware, a new trailer arrived online for The Dark Knight Rises this week and after months and months of speculation, we’re now starting to get some kind of idea about the story for the epic conclusion to Christopher Nolan’s […]

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 […]

We heard rumblings a few months back that Lionsgate were already hard at work on The Expendables 3, and with the second movie arriving in cinemas this week, producer Avi Lerner has taken a moment to discuss the plans for the future of The Expendables franchise – specifically, increasing the already impressive roster of action […]

A couple of weeks ago we heard from Randy Couture that he expected filming to commence on The Expendables 3 later in the year, despite the fact that the second installment in the star-studded action series doesn’t arrive in cinemas until August. Well, if that proves to be the case, we could be seeing another […]

Oli Davis reviews the first episode of Game of Thrones season two… I was never a fantasy guy before last summer. Sci-Fi was more my thing – The Matrix over The Lord of the Rings; 40K over Warhammer. How could a sword ever be cooler than a lightsaber? Space ships instead of sea ships, technology […]

Having taken time out to direct his ‘dream project’, the bodybuilding crime caper Pain & Gain – which is currently sitting atop the North American box office with a projected opening weekend of around $20 million – Michael Bay is turning his attention back to blockbuster filmmaking next year with two 80s toy adaptations, directing […]