Remember Space Invaders? Well it’s coming to a big screen near you… According to The Wrap, Warner Bros. has snapped up the rights to the classic video game, with Akiva Goldsman, Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell signing on to produce a movie version of the arcade smash. Given that Space Invaders features little more than […]

Luke Owen celebrates the Fourth of July by looking at six things you didn’t know about Independence Day… Perhaps it’s fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom… Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution… but from annihilation. We are fighting for our right to live. […]

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Rose Leslie – who plays the Wildling warrior Ygritte in Game of Thrones – has signed on to appear alongside Vin Diesel (Fast & Furious) in director Breck Eisner’s (Sahara, The Crazies) new film, The Last Witch Hunter. The supernatural actioner will take place in modern New York and sees […]

On Friday, it was announced that NBC had decided to axe its female lead in the upcoming DC series Constantine, with Lucy Griffths’ (True Blood) original character Liv axed after just one episode in order to facilitate the introduction of Hellblazer regular Zed. Well, producers Daniel Cerone and David S. Goyer have wasted little time […]

Pride, 2014. Directed by Matthew Warchus. StarringBill Nighy, Dominic West, Paddy Considine, Andrew Scott, Ben Schnetzer, Imelda Staunton, Joseph Gilgun and George MacKay.   SYNOPSIS: When a group of gay and lesbian activists pledge their support to the minors’ strikes of the 80s, they are met with a mixed response. Some take them in as […]

Scott Davis reviews Joss Whedon: Geek King of the Universe by Amy Pascale… Over the last two decades (give or take) Joss Whedon has gone from script “puncher-upper” through developing his own films and television shows, to the pronounced G”eek of the Universe”, the title of the biography by Amy Pascale. Taking a look at […]

The Imitation Game, 2014. Directed by Morten Tylbum. Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Mark Strong, Charles Dance and Matthew Goode. SYNOPSIS: The true story of mathematician Alan Turing, who helps crack the Enigma code during World War 2, before facing persecution for his homosexuality later in life. The thing with ‘true stories’ on film is […]

Since the Playstation 4’s 2.0 update, gamers with the system have been able to place the system into ‘rest mode’ – which is the new name for standby mode – but doing so has caused some issues. After placing the console into rest mode, some gamers were met with the unfortunate bug that prevented their […]

It looks like Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has picked up its first new recruit for the second season of the show, with TV Line reporting that Xena: Warrior Princess and Battlestar Galactica star Lucy Lawless will be joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Although no details of her character have been disclosed, the site speculates that Lawless […]

Due to his commitments to Star Trek 3 – which will see him make his directorial debut – Roberto Orci has dropped out of the big screen reboot of the Power Rangers franchise, which he was set to executive produce for Lionsgate. Power Rangers is described as a modern reinvention of the Mighty Morphin Power […]