Thomas Roach on whether Adam Sandler’s deal with Netflix will harm the company…. I personally feel that Netflix is a fantastic service which one day will over take the film industry. Rather than just producing original series, the streaming service is moving into producing its own movies. Netflix and actor Adam Sandler have just made […]

Withnail & I, 1987. Directed by Bruce Robinson. Starring Richard E. Grant, Paul McGann, Richard Griffiths and Ralph Brown. SYNOPSIS: Withnail (Richard E. Grant) is an unsuccessful, pill-popping actor; ‘I,’ or Marwood (Paul McGann), is Withnail’s roommate and another equally underemployed actor. The time is 1969: Withnail is fast becoming a burned-out relic of the […]

Commenting on the Critics with Simon Columb…. Robert Kojder wrote for Flickering Myth yesterday about the tease of Twin Peaks and it’s timing: “For those that haven’t seen the show, there is a critical plot point alluding to the narrative continuing 25 years after its initial ending. Twin Peaks left the air 23 years ago, so […]

This coming Wednesday (October 8th), IDW Publishing is collecting the Wonder Woman newspaper comic strip from William Moulton Marston and Harry G. Peters for the very first time with a hardcover book that includes the entire strip from May 1st 1944 to December 1st 1945. Just a few years after she burst into comic books, […]

300: Rise of an Empire (2014) Directed by Noam Murro Starring Sullivan Stapleton, Eva Green, Lena Headey, Hans Matheson, Callan Mulvey, David Wenham, Rodrigo Santoro SYNOPSIS: Greek general Themistokles leads the charge against invading Persian forces led by mortal-turned-god Xerxes and Artemisia, vengeful commander of the Persian navy. Eight years after the Spartans raised hell […]

Although it was assumed when a reboot of The Fantastic Four was announced that Marvel’s First Family would inhabit the same universe as the X-Men – owing in no small part to comments from Mark Millar suggesting as much – producer Simon Kinberg downplayed the possibility back in May, stating that the characters “live in […]

Anghus Houvouras with five reasons why Mel Gibson should direct Iron Man 4… Robert Downey Jr. set the internet ablaze with crazy and wild speculation after making a comment about the liklihood of his involvement in Iron Man 4 should certain factors fall into place. When asked about his long time friend Mel Gibson directing […]

Back in July Guillermo del Toro revealed his ideas for Hellboy 3, but stated that he didn’t think the film would ever get made. We’ve been hearing similar statements for a few years now and with each passing day the hope of Hellboy 3 hitting the big screen fades. Enter Arrested Development‘s Jeffrey Tambor, who played Tom Manning in both Hellboy and Hellboy […]

Neil Calloway begins his new weekly column looking at the state of ‘British’ cinema in 2014… According to a report in The Sunday Times, UK cinema audiences were down 8% on last year this summer, with only The Inbetweeners 2 and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (both sequels AND based on material from elsewhere) […]

Horns, 2014. Directed by Alexandre Aja. Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Juno Temple, Heather Graham, David Morse, James Remar and Max Minghella. SYNOPSIS: In the aftermath of his girlfriend’s mysterious death, a young man awakens to strange horns sprouting from his temples. Perhaps the most intriguing aspect about Alexandre Aja’s (High Tension, Piranha 3D) latest directorial feature […]