Well, the Hellboy 3 saga rolls on… last week director Guillermo del Toro offered fans hope that the long-rumoured third instalment in the Hellboy movie franchise could find a new home at Legendary Pictures, but now the Pacific Rim helmer has played down the possibility of him completing his trilogy, telling Collider that a third […]

Pacific Rim, 2013 Directed by Guillermo del Toro.Written by Travis Beacham and Guillermo del Toro.Starring Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day, Burn Gorman and Ron Perlman. SYNOPSIS: When an alien attack threatens the Earth’s existence, giant robots piloted by humans are deployed to fight off the menace. As one of the few big […]

Commenting on the Critics with Simon Columb…. Via new film site The Dissolve, Matt Singer’s Read On: Friday’s Noteworthy Film Writing pointed me in the direction of Jon Negroni’s theory connecting all the Pixar films together… “I’ve obsessed over this concept, working to complete what I call “The Pixar Theory,” a working narrative that ties […]

Pacific Rim, 2013. Directed by Guillermo del Toro.Written by Travis Beacham and Guillermo del Toro.Starring Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day, Burn Gorman, and Ron Perlman. SYNOPSIS: As a war between humankind and monstrous sea creatures wages on, a former pilot and a trainee are paired up to drive a seemingly obsolete special […]

Our weekly round up of all the latest stories from the world of screen superheroes, including The Wolverine, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Deadpool/X-Force, Chronicle 2, Thor: The Dark World, Guardians of the Galaxy, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Marvel One-Shots, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Kick-Ass 2, Man of Steel, Wonder Woman, Batman Beyond, Hellboy 3, […]

Simon Columb attends BFI Southbank’s ‘Symphonies of Life: The Films of Jean Grémillon’ retrospective… Jean Grémillon worked alongside the very best – Jean Renoir, Marcel Carne and Jacques Feyder to name a few. Lumière d’Été, released only four years after La Règle de Jeu (Renoir’s highly acclaimed masterpiece that has remained in the Sight & […]

There’s a lot of excitement at the moment as rumours swirl around the internet that Warner Bros. is about to announce its plans for a live-action DC Movie Universe – consisting of a World’s Finest feature in 2015, followed by The Flash in 2016 and Justice League in 2017 – and now DC’s Chief Creative […]

The film rights for two upcoming sci-fi novels have been acquired and they are set to be adapted for the big screen. FlynnPictureCo. and Silver Reel have reportedly acquired the rights to Claudia Gabel and Cheryl Klam’s sci-fi thriller/teen romance Elusion. The first in a series, it follows two teens who can travel to virtual […]

Liam Trim explains why he believes that the Man of Steel sequel can work, even if the inclusion of Batman seems to be an act of desperation by DC and Warner Bros. to compete with Marvel’s success….Zack Snyder and Harry Lennix made an announcement at Comic-Con that has surprised even the most clued-up fans of movies, […]

Commenting on the Critics with Simon Columb…. Donald Clarke writes for The Irish Times about a strange anomaly in the reviews for The World’s End… “The film has yet to open in the United States. So, virtually all the reviews currently on Rotten Tomatoes are from British publications. There does, thus, seem to be a […]