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 […]

Michael Bay has been coming in for some stick from fans of the classic children’s cartoon Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles since his comments a couple of weeks back about the beloved characters being reimagined as aliens for Platinum Dunes’ upcoming live-action reboot. Bay’s initial response was to tell fans to “chill”, and now he’s taken […]

Last week Michael Bay took to the stage at the 2012 Nickelodeon Upfront to discuss Platinum Dunes’ plans for the live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot, where his comments about his version of the Turtles being “from an alien race” immediately caused uproar amongst fans of the heroes in a half-shell – including former Michaelangelo […]