Chris Cooper reviews the latest of IDW’s TMNT ‘Color Classics’ reprints… “Devastated by a traumatic fight with the Foot and the Shredder, the TMNT retreat to Northampton. This issue serves as a poetic coda to the original, astounding run of Eastman & Laird on TMNT.” Damn Splinter is short! OK now I’ve got that out […]

Chris Cooper reviews the latest issue of IDW’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles… “Trouble is brewing in the streets of NYC. Crime and gang warfare increase while different underworld factions jostle for power. Meanwhile, Shredder has found an old ally in Kitsune, a long-lost witch from Feudal Japan.” Reality rarely lives up to the anticipation. In […]

The National Association of Theater Owners is the largest exhibition trade organization in the world, representing over 30,000 movie screens across the U.S. and additional cinemas in fifty countries worldwide. The organization is pushing for new marketing rules, which include limiting the length of movie trailers to two minutes. Voluntary marketing guidelines currently restrict trailers […]

Mud, 2012. Written and Directed by Jeff Nichols.Starring Matthew McConaughey, Tye Sheridan, Jacob Lofland, Reese Witherspoon, and Michael Shannon.  SYNOPSIS:  A fourteen year old boy learns some valuable life lessons when he meets the mysterious Mud. Following on from the fantastic psychological (with a hint of religious undertone) character drama Take Shelter, Jeff Nichols embarks […]

Chris Cooper reviews Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Villains Micro-Series #2 – Baxter… “Baxter Stockman is busy working for Krang on the Technodrome… or so it appears. Little does Krang know that Baxter has secretly been working on his own project that is both mutant AND machine! But when creation turns on creator, Baxter’s trademark smugness […]

Trevor Hogg chats with Scott Chambliss about collaborating with J.J. Abrams, making Star Trek Into Darkness and the art of production design….   “J.J. is the genius kid who has a great personality too so you can’t hate him,” chuckles long-time J.J. Abrams collaborator Scott Chambliss who has done production design work for him ever […]

Many people found it disheartening that last year’s Dredd, starring Karl Urban, didn’t do the business that would guarantee it a sequel. With a modest (for this genre) budget of $45 million, the comic book film grossed only $36 million. Sad times indeed. It did however receive generally positive reviews and fans of the comic […]

Joel Edgerton (Zero Dark Thirty, Warrior) and Michelle Williams (My Week with Marilyn, Shutter Island) are going to star in a remake of The Double Hour, an Italian film from 2009 directed by Giuseppe Capotondi. Joshua Marston (Maria Full Of Grace) will write and direct the psychological thriller. It focuses on two lovers who find […]

Trevor Hogg chats with Stephan Franck about an original film idea which transformed into a debut graphic novel series and led to the formation of his own comic book publishing company… “When I was a kid in France, my parents had a store, which sold a whole bunch of stuff including books, newspapers, comic books,” […]