Thomas Roach on whether Marvel Studios needs X-Men, Fantastic Four and Spider-Man back… One of the things Marvel fans keep asking is when are the rights for all the characters going to return to Marvel Studios? In order to save itself from bankruptcy in the 90s, Marvel sold off the movie rights to many of […]

’71, 2014 Directed by Yann Demange Starring Jack O’Connell, Sam Reid, Paul Anderson, Sean Harris, Charlie Murphy, Sam Hazeldine, Killian Scott, Barry Keoghan, Corey McKinley SYNOPSIS: A young and disoriented British soldier is accidentally abandoned by his unit following a riot on the deadly streets of Belfast in 1971. Earlier this year, Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla was criticised for […]

Over the past month Marvel has been assembling the supporting cast to feature alongside Hayley Atwell in the upcoming ABC TV series Agent Carter, and now it has been confirmed by Marvel that Dominic Cooper is set to reprise the role of Howard Stark, having previously portrayed the character in Captain America: The First Avenger […]

Björk: Biophilia Live, 2014 Directed by Nick Fenton and Peter Strickland SYNOPSIS: Icelandic artist, Björk, performs songs from her eighth album with evocative visuals provided by designers from around the world. Icelandic warbler Björk presents her eighth studio album Biophilia as a live performance on film, showing off her enigmatic and evocative visions and style. David Attenborough opens the […]

Oh boy. The 1988 comedy classic Big starring Tom Hanks is the latest Hollywood commodity headed for a remake, and will come in the form of a television “event series” from Enlisted’s Kevin Biegel and Mike Royce. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the series has landed a script plus penalty commitment at Fox and is going to explore […]

Anthony Stokes reviews episode 2 of FOX’s Batman prequel series Gotham…. After the disappointment of the pilot, I was reluctant tuning into Gotham’s second episode. So far aside from Arrow no superhero TV show has reached the heights of Smallville, which is a pretty low bar.  Gotham’s first episode was especially mediocre, with shades of […]

Hollywood’s trend of greenlighting any and all pre-established properties for feature films continues, as a live-action Tetris movie is now in active development. The film, based of course on the 1984 puzzler, comes from Threshold Entertainment’s Larry Kasanoff, the producer of the 1995 Mortal Kombat film. At this point in time, there are no details on the project and […]

Now that the Dollmaker – a villain who debuted in the New 52 in 2011 and appeared on Arrow last season – is set to appear on Gotham, fans are running wild with theories about the two shows sharing the same connected universe. Those theories were given even more fuel by this little Easter egg spotted in last […]

A tweet sent out (and swiftly deleted) by longtime Whedonverse actor Fran Kranz (Cabin in the Woods, Dollhouse) may have just revealed the identity of another Marvel Comics character headed to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Robbie Baldwin, a.k.a. Speedball. For those unfamiliar, Robbie Baldwin was bombarded with inter-dimensional energy and gained an exterior shell of kinetic energy. As […]

Before J.J. Abrams secured the job of kicking off Disney’s Star Wars sequel trilogy, numerous filmmakers were linked with the director’s chair on Star Wars: Episode VII, including  David Fincher (Se7en, Fight Club), who has spoken about meeting with Disney and Lucasfilm during a promotional interview for his new film Gone Girl. “I talked to […]