3 Days to Kill, 2014. Directed by McG. Starring Kevin Costner, Amber Heard, Hailee Steinfield and Connie Nielsen Synopsis A terminally ill CIA Agent is offered an experimental drug in exchange for one more assignment.   To say that 3 Days to Kill has a convoluted plot is a massive understatement. From the synopsis you’d […]

Ray Willmott reviews Mario Kart 8 on Wii U… If there’s one Nintendo game you can rely on to be gold-standard, it’s Mario Kart. Look back at every iteration over the years and it’s hard to dispute the evidence. Nintendo know how to make a great Kart racer and the good news is, with Mario […]

Gavin Logan dissects the new Star Wars cast for Episode VII…. It seems like an age ago when Disney announced the acquisition of LucasFilm for a whopping $4 billion and with it the exciting news that we would be getting more Star Wars movies. Since then exactly 2446 actors have been linked with possible roles […]

Noah, 2014. Directed by Darren Aronofsky. Starring Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, Emma Watson, Logan Lerman, Douglas Booth, Nick Nolte, Mark Margolis and Kevin Durand. SYNOPSIS: A man is chosen by his world’s creator to undertake a momentous mission to rescue the innocent before an apocalyptic flood cleanses the wicked from the […]

Los ultimos dias, 2013. Directed by Àlex Pastor and David Pastor.Starring Quim Gutiérrez, José Coronado, Marta Etura and Leticia Dolera. SYNOPSIS:  A mysterious epidemic spreads across the globe, causing an irrational fear of wide open spaces that has lethal symptoms. In Barcelona, one man searches the chas to find his missing girlfriend. Spanish cinema aficionados […]

The Raid 2, 2014. Directed by Gareth Evans. Starring: Iko Uwais, Cocep Rahman, Julie Estelle, Tegar Satrya, Yayan Ruhian, Arifin Putra, Alex Abbad and Donny Alamsyah. SYNOPSIS: Having escaped from the infamous tower block in the first film, Rama (Uwais) is thrown back into the brutal environment of the Indonesian underworld via a dangerous undercover […]

Anghus Houvouras reviews Starlight #1… “Forty years ago, Duke McQueen was the space hero who saved the universe. But then he came back home, got married, had kids, and grew old. Now his children have left and his wife has passed away, leaving him alone with nothing except his memories…until a call comes from a […]

Gravity, 2013. Directed by Alfonso Cuaron.Starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney. SYNOPSIS: Disaster strikes on a routine spacewalk, leaving seasoned astronaut Matt Kowalsky (George Clooney) and medical engineer Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) completely alone and drifting in space. In a case of perfect timing, director Alfonso Cuaron’s taut, space-set thriller Gravity arrives on Blu-ray […]

It’s been a long time since we’ve heard anything about Universal Pictures, Mandalay Pictures and Platinum Dunes’ remake of the 1963 Alfred Hitchcock classic The Birds, but if you were hoping that Michael Bay’s production company had forgotten about its plans, then I’m afraid you’re out of luck. Variety is reporting that Dutch filmmaker Diederik […]

Deadline has revealed that Warner Bros. has acquired the rights to the hugely popular video game Minecraft, with a view to developing a live-action movie under producer Roy Lee, who is coming off the massively successful animated comedy The LEGO Movie. Created by Swedish programmer Markus Persson and published by Mojang, Minecraft was released in […]