Trevor Hogg reviews the second instalment which sees Rocket Girl grounded in the past…. “Bodies in motion tend to stay in motion…”  Teen future-cop DaYoung Johansson hits 1980s NYC like a meteor. People can’t get enough of the Rocket Girl: she’s fighting crime, saving citizens, and causing a sensation. But she’s also trying to right […]

If you’ve seen Thor: The Dark World, then you’ll have no doubt noticed that the latest instalment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe opened with a new company logo, coinciding with the end of Marvel Studios’ initial distribution deal with Paramount Pictures. Speaking to the official Marvel site, studio chief Kevin Feige has explained the reason […]

Yesterday we heard that Drew Goddard (The Cabin in the Woods) has signed on to script Marvel and Netflix’s upcoming Daredevil miniseries, and now it’s been revealed that Melissa Rosenberg (The Twilight Saga, Dexter) will write and produce Jessica Jones. Rosenberg originally signed on to develop an adaptation of Alias entitled AKA Jessica Jones for […]

Anghus Houvouras reviews the seventh episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D…. #CoulsonsARobot Halfway through the seventh episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Skye looks over to Simmons after an encounter with Coulson and says he is acting like, and I quote: “A robot version of himself.” Seriously, they’re not even trying anymore.  This is either […]

British filmmaker Joe Wright (Anna Karenina, Atonement, Hanna) has signed up to direct an origin story for famed J.M. Barrie character Peter Pan. Currently on script duty is Jason Fuchs, who previously wrote Ice Age: Continental Drift, while Greg Berlanti (Arrow) is producing. This is one of three Peter Pan films currently in development with […]

Just last week Marvel Studios announced that it had sold five miniseries to Netflix, with Daredevil, Luke Cage, Iron Fist and Jessica Jones each receiving their own 13-episode series and building towards the small screen team-up The Defenders, and it seems that Marvel is wasting little time in securing talent for the ambitious project. According […]

Rob Reiner’s cult classic The Princess Bride looks set to be adapted for the stage by Disney Theatrical Productions. There is no word as to whether it will be a musical or a play but who wouldn’t want to see someone sing “My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” Variety […]

Controversial director Lars von Trier’s massively ambitious erotic double feature Nymphomaniac has been abandoned – or at least the softcore version of it has been. Von Trier’s original plan was a five-and-a-half-hour, two part sexual odyssey split into hardcore and softcore, but now both parts will be shown with explicit scenes after the director gave […]

Joe Utichi chats with Michael Fassbender about The Counselor…. Having fast become one of the leading lights of his generation of actors, Michael Fassbender adds Ridley Scott’s The Counsellor to an impressive string of roles in films as diverse as they are popular and critically acclaimed. He broke through in Zack Snyder’s 2006 blockbuster 300 […]

Having kicked off a Cinematic Universe this year with Man of Steel, it’s clear that Warner Bros. is looking to capitalise on its roster of DC Comics superheroes in an effort to make up ground on Marvel Studios; Zack Snyder rocked Comic-Con with the announcement that The Dark Knight would join Henry Cavill’s Man of […]