With the Fast and Furious series doing big business, it seems that vehicular based films are something everyone is going to try and get in on. With Legendary working on a Hot Wheels movie, and DreamWorks making use of the Need for Speed license, Sony are also stepping up to the plate. With Gran Turismo. […]

Trevor Hogg reviews the series where chaos ensues when two classic crime fighters from different coasts cross paths in The Rocketeer and The Spirit: Pulp Friction #1…  From the grim and gritty streets of Central City where The Spirit navigates through the urban underbelly of corruption to the sunny skies of Los Angeles where The […]

Badass Digest have reported that some ‘excellent sources’ have confirmed that new writers for Star Trek 3 have been found, and as expected Bad Robot is hiring from within the ranks of past collaborators. Continuing with the first two films’ tradition of having writing teams, the script for Trek 3 will be written by duo […]

Producers and actors from Beware the Batman joined at SDCC to talk about their new take on the Dark Knight. Voice actors Anthony Ruivivar (Batman) and J.B. Blanc (Alfred), along with producers Glen Murakami and Mitch Watson, had a few things to say the new show, starting with their version of Bruce Wayne/Batman. “He’s not […]

A Hijacking (Danish: Kapringen), 2012  Directed by Tobias Lindholm. Starring Pilou Asbæk, Søren Malling, Dar Salim, Roland Møller, Gary Skjoldmose Porter, Abdihakin Asgar and Amalie Ihle Alstrup. SYNOPSIS: A Danish cargo ship is taken over by Somali hijackers who hold the crew of the vessel for ransom. A speaker phone conversation opens the film where Mikkel Hartmann (Pilou Asbæk), the […]

For those seeking to have some butter with their popcorn, Carl Freedman studies the political and social underpinnings which can be explored in the crime genre with his sequel to The Incomplete Projects: Marxism, Modernity and the Politics of Culturepublished in 2002.   The crime genre is broken into three categories: Western, Mob, and Film Noir […]

The adaptations of Dan Brown’s novels have proven very lucrative for Sony. Sadly for fans of Robert Langdon the third book in the series, The Lost Symbol, was mired in development troubles. So much so in fact that Sony have decided to move onto the next book in the series, Inferno. Here’s the synopsis for […]

Trevor Hogg chats with production designer Alex McDowell about building worlds for Man of Steel…  “I did a talk at SIGGRAPH in Vancouver about how the ‘S’ formed the basis of an entire language,” remarks Alex McDowell [Fight Club] who was the responsible for the production design featured in Man of Steel (2013) which involved […]

Last week Sharknado caused quite a splash on social media. Its ridiculous premise had many people wondering what the execs at SyFy must be smoking. They clearly haven’t stopped. Set to air in the US on August 22nd, Ghost Shark takes things paranormal, with the ghost of a Great White able to appear anywhere there […]

Chris Cooper reviews the latest in IDW ‘Villains’ series, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Villains Micro-Series #4 – Alopex… “Alopex, the first mutant of the Foot Clan, has quickly become one of Shredder’s most useful agents. However, when she sets out to learn more about her past, she discovers a devastating truth that could have her […]