Luke Owen reviews Sonic The Hedgehog #248, part three of the Worlds Collide series… It’s Sonic versus Mega Man – Round One! The fight that every fan of both the Blue Blur and Blue Bomber has been waiting for is here at last, and it looks like Sonic’s got the hometeam advantage! Can Mega Man […]

Sleepwalk with Me, 2012 Directed by Mike Birbiglia and Seth BarrishWritten by Mike Birbiglia, Ira Glass, Joe Birbiglia and Seth BarrishStarring Mike Birbiglia, Lauren Ambrose, JamesRebhorn and Carol Kane SYNOPSIS: A burgeoning stand-up comedian struggles with the stress of a stalled career, a stale relationship, and the wild spurts of severe sleepwalking he is desperate […]

Since exploding into virtually every household from the middle of the last century, the medium of television has revolutionised not only home entertainment, but it’s also allowed us to experience some of the most historic moments of the past sixty years, from the 1969 Moon landings through to the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 London […]

A.C.O.D, 2013 Directed by Stu ZichermanWritten by Stu Zicherman and Ben KarlinStarring Adam Scott, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Richard Jenkins, Catherine O’Hara, Clark Duke, Amy Poehler, Jessica Alba and Jane Lynch SYNOPSIS: A grown man is still caught in the crossfire of his parents 15 year divorce. He discovers he was unknowingly part of a study […]

Ron Howard has been planning to bring Stephen King’s opus The Dark Tower for the screen for what seems like an eternity now, but despite numerous setbacks, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker is still keen to get him ambitious adaptation off the ground. Speaking to Empire during a podcast interview for his latest film Rush, Howard […]

In Fear, 2013 Directed by Jeremy LoveringStarring Iain De Caestecker, Alice Englert and Allen Leech SYNOPSIS: Driving, lost and tormented in the night, primal fears of the dark and the unknown give way to fear that you have let the evil in, or that it is already there. As I left the screening with co-editor […]

Peaches Does Herself, 2012 Written and directed by PeachesStarring Peaches, Dannii Daniels and Sandy Kane SYNOPSIS: Peaches Does Herself is an electro rock opera stage show that tells a mythical history of the musician Peaches. You remember that episode of Spaced where they go and watch Vulva’s stage show? Well Peaches Does Herself is exactly […]

Paul Risker on Katniss Everdeen and the dystopian sci-fi role model…. Woman, says Caroline Williams, has been a “prize, there to be defeated, destroyed or possessed.” Regardless a number of female protagonists have provided a strong representation of femininity, from the inaugural “Final Girl” Jamie Lee Curtis, Alien’s Ellen Ripley, The Silence of the Lambs’ […]

Mud, 2012 Written and Directed by Jeff Nichols.Starring Matthew McConaughey, Tye Sheridan, Jacob Lofland, Reese Witherspoon and Michael Shannon. SYNOPSIS: Two teenage boys encounter a fugitive and form a pact to help him evade the bounty hunters on his trail and to reunite him with his true love. Matthew McConaughey can do no wrong at […]

The Witches, 1966. Directed by Cyril Frankel.Starring Joan Fontaine, Kay Walsh, Alec McCowen, Ann Bell and Ingrid Boulting. SYNOPSIS: Returning home to England following a harrowing and life threatening encounter with the occult in Africa, schoolteacher Gwen Mayfield takes up the position of headmistress in a quaint English village. In a distinctly English fashion, Hammer’s […]