Our weekly round up of all the latest stories from the world of screen superheroes, including Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Doctor Strange, Black Panther, Guardians of the Galaxy, Man of Steel, Justice League, The Dark Knight Trilogy, Dark Universe, Hellboy 3, The Wolverine, X-Men: Days of […]

Simon Columb attends BFI Southbank’s Rita Hayworth retrospective…In The Shawshank Redemption (titled Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption in Stephen King’s Different Seasons) there is a moment whereby we see a scene from Gilda. Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) attempts to ask Red (Morgan Freeman) to bring him “Rita Hayworth” but before he can ask, Red […]

Luke Graham reviews Penny Arcade’s online reality TV series Strip Search….In March, Penny Arcade (the rather large and influential web comic company) launched an incredibly ambitious and innovative reality TV show called Strip Search. The aim was to find an artist and give them the chance to launch a brand new web comic with the […]

George A. Romero may not have made a really good zombie film in a while, but surely we don’t need remakes of remakes of his films?The makers of this years Texas Chainsaw 3D appear to disagree, as although the 2008 remake of Day of the Dead was a terrible flop, they think they can do […]

Yesterday Entertainment Weekly gave us our first official look at Jamie Foxx’s (Django Unchained) villain Electro from Sony’s upcoming sequel The Amazing Spider-Man 2 on the cover of the Comic-Con preview issue, and inside the magazine Andrew Garfield has offered up some interesting – and no doubt tongue-in-cheek – quotes which might go some way […]

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. Guillermo Del Toro’s career is a […]

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 weapon in a […]