Back in 1998 before reality TV would laboriously take over all our lives (whether we liked it or not) a fairly small movie called The Truman Show starring funny man Jim Carrey in an unlikely straight role surprised everyone with it’s compelling storytelling, on point writing and stellar performances from it’s lead actors to deliver […]

Andy Naylor reviews Judge Dredd: Mega-City Two #2… In the hills of what was once California, Dredd has gone undercover as a Cursed Earth biker! His mission: to infiltrate the Children of a Lesser Grud, a bloodthirsty motorcycle cult of outlaw artists! But the rules—and the laws—are very different in Mega-City Two, where image is […]

Costa da Morte, 2013. Directed by Lois Patino. SYNOPSIS: A documentary about Spain’s ‘Coast of Death’. In director Lois Patino’s debut documentary feature, Spain’s infamous Costa da Morte – ‘the Coast of Death’ – comes under scrutiny. Telling of the area’s history and myth through a panoply of long shots, Patino’s method of observation manages […]

Deadline has revealed that Ubisoft and New Regency’s forthcoming adaptation of the hit video games series Assassin’s Creed is to undergo a rewrite courtesy of Adam Cooper and Bill Collage, the screenwriters behind Ridley Scott’s biblical epic Exodus. The duo’s other upcoming credits include Darren Aronofsky’s planned George Washington biopic The General, as well as […]

This won’t come as much of a surprise seeing as it’s featured in five of the previous six movies, but it seems we’ll be heading back to the desert world of Tatooine when we return to a galaxy far, far away for Star Wars: Episode VII. According to The Hollywood Reporter, “director J.J. Abrams and […]

Anghus Houvouras reviews the seventeenth episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D…. Fellow FM contributor Anthony Stokes recently postulated that Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. doesn’t deserve a second season. The show is polarizing to fans. Some love it’s earnest awkwardness and lo-fi approach to the Marvel Universe. While others think it’s a lumbering, poorly written, ill […]

The Amazing Spider-Man 2, 2014. Directed by Marc Webb. Starring Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx, Dane DeHaan, Campbell Scott, Embeth Davidtz, Colm Feore, Paul Giamatti, Sally Field, B.J. Novak, Felicity Jones, Chris Cooper, Chris Zylka, and Denis Leary. SYNOPSIS: Peter Parker struggles with his past, trying to keep his future safe. The Amazing Spider-Man […]

Alice Rush reviews the sixth episode of Bates Motel season 2… Bates Motel seems to follow a slight pattern week to week, in that, for the majority, each episode is quite domestic with a few interesting progressions here and there, and then in the last 20 seconds something huge happens. This week’s episode was quite […]

According to Variety, Universal Pictures is prepping a big screen reboot of the cult sci-fi franchise Battlestar Galactica, with original series creator Glen A. Larson producing, and rising screenwriter Jack Paglen (Transcendence and the upcoming Prometheus sequel) signing on to pen the script. Battlestar Galactica originally arrived on screens back in 1978 with a TV […]

Earlier this week, Marvel Studios officially announced the release of Captain America 3, confirming that the currently-untitled superhero sequel will hit cinemas on May 6th, 2016 – the exact same date as another currently-untitled superhero sequel in Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel follow-up Batman vs. Superman. Well, it seems that Marvel isn’t the only one […]