Luke Owen looks at Microsoft’s war on pre-owned games… Since its announcement yesterday, one of the biggest talking points to come from Xbox One is Microsoft’s plan to charge people for playing pre-owned games. The point of contention being that even if you borrowed a game from a friend, you will be charged by Bill […]

Luke Owen reviews the third issue of Sex from Image Comics… There are a million stories in Saturn City, and Simon Cooke’s is just one of them! His future may be wide open, but the past is hot on his tail! The Old Man can still get it up! No two ways about it — […]

Marvel Studios dropped a huge surprise yesterday when it was announced that Michael Douglas will play Hank Pym in Edgar Wright’s long-gestating Ant-Man movie, confirming that Paul Rudd (Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues) will indeed take on the role of Scott Lang in the Phase Three film. And hot on the heels of the announcement […]

Back in September, Channing Tatum (21 Jump Street, The LEGO Movie) spoke about his desire to portray the X-Men’s Cajun card-thrower Gambit on the big screen (a role previously filled by Taylor Kitsch in 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine) and now veteran X-Men producer Lauren Shuler Donner has spoken briefly about the possibility, stating that she’s […]

Luke Owen reviews the first issue of The Bounce from Image Comics…. Meet the ultimate slacker superhero for the 21st Century! Jasper Jenkins is a super-head AND a super-hero! He’s relatable AND reliable and he’s embarking on the adventure of a lifetime! The sensational debut of the new feel-good hero of the decade! You can’t […]

Luke Owen reviews the first issue of Half Past Danger… DAMES. DINOSAURS. DANGER. Summer, 1943, and in the midst of a war waged by monsters, Staff Sergeant Tommy ‘Irish’ Flynn never expected to encounter a real one. But on a remote island in the South Pacific, Flynn and his squad come face-to-fanged-face with creatures long […]

Luke Owen reviews The New Ghostbusters #4… They’re BACK! The original boys in gray have escaped captivity, but their captors—the demonic entities know as the Collectors—aren’t going to just let the Ghostbusters get away with a jailbreak! It’ll take all the wits at the disposal of both teams to keep Ray, Peter, Winston and Egon […]

Luke Owen reviews the first part of Dark Cyberton in Transformers: Robots in Disguise #17… SHOCKWAVES! The fate of Cybertron is sealed—but what is the DECEPTICON scientist called SHOCKWAVE planning? After the stunning revelations in MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE, learn the origin of the one-eyed, gun-handed master of machinations… and the countdown begins for […]

Motel Hell, 1980. Directed by Kevin Conner.Starring Rory Calhoun, Paul Linke, Nancy Parsons, and Nina Axelrod. SYNOPSIS: Set in a fictitious town in the Deep South, people come from far and wide to sample Vincent’s distinctively flavoured produce, but one might well ask why so few of them decide to stay at the near-by motel […]

Luke Owen reviews the trade paperback of Iron Sky…The adaptation of the hit science fiction/comedy film of the summer Iron Sky follows the fate of Nazis who fled to the moon in 1945, and return in 2018 to conquer the Earth with their armada of flying saucers. With tongue firmly in cheek, the story parodies […]