Monster Movie Mondays looks at King Kong Escapes… Director: Ishiro Honda Release date: 1967 Also released as: King Kong, Frankenstein’s Son (Germany) Appearing kaiju: King Kong, Mechani-Kong, Gorosaurus In the early 1960s, Toho struck a deal with American producer John Beck (who was representing Willis O’Brian) to make a movie based on the King Kong character which […]

Ride Along, 2014. Directed by Tim Story. Starring Ice Cube, Kevin Hart, Tika Sumpter, John Leguizamo, Bruce McGill and Laurence Fishburne. SYNOPSIS: Security guard Ben must prove himself to his girlfriend’s brother, top cop James. He rides along James on a 24-hour patrol of Atlanta. Buddy cop films have been hit or miss, going all the […]

It seems Michael Bay’s Transformers: Age of Extinction really is more than meets the eye. Despite a critical panning (including our own ★ review), the fourth instalment of the Transformers franchise has taken a whopping $300 million worldwide in its opening weekend. The film has beaten out Captain America: The Winter Soldier‘s opening weekend of […]

As far as acting chops go, Paul Rudd has what it takes to make the perfect Ant-Man and will likely embody the role of Scott Lang with his trademark comedic stylings. Physically, however, Rudd isn’t the first person you picture when thinking of the word “superhero,” but that’s why they invented Hollywood trainers. Rudd recently […]

Commenting on the Critics with Simon Columb… Vanessa Thorpe and Callum Cuddeford write for The Observer about the pay and conditions in cinemas across London in an article titled “Cinema stars back call to make arts venues pay a living wage”: “Investigations by the Observer this weekend found that several larger London arts venues, such as the […]

Having given up the director’s chair on the fifth instalment of the Transformers franchise, Michael Bay has entered talks with Paramount to direct 13 Hours, a retelling of the terrorist attack on the U.S. Special Mission Compound in Benghazi, Libya on September 11th, 2012. Based on Mitchell Zuckoff’s book Thirteen Hours: A Firsthand Account of […]

Earlier this week, Michael Bay spoke out about critics who didn’t like this latest blockbuster Transformers: Age of Extinction, which has been panned by almost every critic under the sun. In the interview, Bay essestinally said, “haters gonna hate”. While promoting the film in Dublin ahead of its release tomorrow here in the UK, Michael […]

Michael Bay’s latest giant robot blockbuster Transformers: Age of Extinction is following in the footsteps of its three predecessors: by making a killing at the box office and angering movie critics across the globe (including our very own Luke Owen). At the time of this writing the film has scored a “rotten” 17% approval rating on […]

Transformers: Age of Extinction, 2014. Directed by Michael Bay. Starring Mark Wahlberg, Victoria Summer, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer, Nicola Peltz, Jack Reynor, Titus Welliver, Bingbing Li and featuring the voice talents of Peter Cullen, Frank Welker, John Goodman, Ken Watanabe, and Mark Ryan. SYNOPSIS: An automobile mechanic and his daughter make a discovery that brings […]

Villordsutch chats with Scott Tipton and J.K. Woodward about IDW’s Star Trek: Harlan Ellison’s The City on the Edge of Forever… Earlier this month, IDW – using the writing talents of Scott and David Tipton and also the artistic talents of J.K. Woodward – released Harlan Ellison’s original teleplay of Star Trek: The City On […]