Chris Cooper reviews the latest issue of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles… “The TMNT recuperate in their new underground lair following their battle with Slash, the latest deadly creation of Stockgen. April O’Neil, an interim at Stockgen, has recently begun to uncover dark secrets there. Little does she know that her co-worker Chet Allen is secretly […]

Chris Cooper reviews Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Color Classics Micro-Series: Michaelangelo… IDW are currently reprinting issues of the original Mirage Comics run, in colour! This time we have the Michaelangelo one shot, which as it turns out is very apt for this time of year. This also happens to be the first Eastman/Laird original TMNT […]

Zombie Flesh Eaters, 1979. Directed by Lucio Fulci.Starring Tisa Farrow, Ian McCulloch, Richard Johnson and Al Cliver. SYNOPSIS: When a supposedly abandoned yacht sails into New York Harbour, a journalist and scientists Daughter investigate only to find themselves in a zombie nightmare! Zombie. Zombi 2. Island of the Living Dead. Zombie Flesh Eaters. Though it […]

Chris Cooper reviews the first issue of IDW’s Judge Dredd… I’ll start this off by explaining that I don’t have a great deal of knowledge with regards to Judge Dredd coming into this. My main two exposures to Mega-City One are the Sylvester Stallone film (which I hated), and the Karl Urban film (which I […]

Chris Cooper reviews the latest issue of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles… “The TMNT find a potential new home in a bomb shelter under an abandoned church. Unfortunately they have been tracked by ‘Slash’; a merciless and deadly mutant snapping turtle created by Stockgen specifically to hunt and kill the TMNT.” Issue 15 left us on […]

Back in 2007, Warner Bros. hired director George Miller (Mad Max) to work on an adaptation of DC Comics’ Justice League, with Miller subsequently turning to a cast of up-and-coming actors to portray the legendary superhero team in what was planned as a big-budget motion-capture animation. Despite the studio pulling the plug on the project […]

Marvel superheroes are currently in vogue at the moment with the success of big screen adaptations such as Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and Avengers Assemble, and now it appears we may be seeing some of Marvel’s favorite characters on the small screen too. While speaking to ShockTillYouDrop at the launch of the Academy of Motion […]

Way back in 2007, New Line Cinema secured the movie rights to Microsoft and Epic Games’ hit third-person sci-fi action shooter Gears of War, hiring screenwriter Stuart Beattie (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides) to develop a script with a view to releasing a big-budget adaptation in the […]

Despite mixed reviews, there’s little doubt that Ridley Scott’s hotly-anticipated return to the sci-fi genre delivered the goods in terms of box office for 20th Century Fox, with the divisive Prometheus banking over $400 million world-wide. With those sort of returns, you can rest assured that the studio will be keen for Scott to push […]

Oliver Davis reviews Part 1 of the Sky 1 special, A Touch of Cloth… “Natasha’s called from the mortuary. She said it’s big.”“I know. I’ve been there.” That is an excellent joke. It echoes the great Airplane running gag of: “You’d better tell the Captain we’ve got to land as soon as we can. This […]