Martin Deer reviews the latest episode of Breaking Bad (spoilers within)…. Yet another outstanding episode this week, much less frantic than the last episode but one which expanded on several threads and opened things up immensely. First, let’s give credit to first time director Sam Catlin, who did an outstanding job with this episode. Catlin […]

Yesterday a new Star Wars: Episode VII rumour emerged suggesting that director J.J. Abrams was set to reunite with Star Trek Into Darkness villain Benedict Cumberbatch for Disney’s forthcoming Star Wars sequel trilogy, with Badass Digest subsequently updating the story by stating that Cumberbatch was being considered for “a bad guy, almost certainly a Sith, […]

Luke Owen ponders the point of making a Fifty Shades of Grey movie for 2014… Fads. As a society and human race, we go through a lot of fads. Some of them stick around for some time while others fade into obscurity to only ever to be mentioned in conversations with the prefix, “do you […]

As much as feature films and documentaries are staples of the Toronto International Film Festival line-up so is the Short Cuts Canada program; 39 short films will be showcased from 15 returning filmmakers who will be competing for the YouTube Award for Best Canadian Short Film which includes a $10,000 cash prize. Here are a […]

About Time, 2013. Directed by Richard Curtis.Starring Rachel McAdams, Margot Robbie, Bill Nighy, Domhnall Gleeson, Lydia Wilson and Tom Hollander.  SYNOPSIS: At the age of 21 Tim (Gleeson), gets told by his father (Nighy) that he has the ability to travel through time. The film follows his life as he uses the ability to try […]

Luke Owen reviews Sonic the Hedgehog #252… SONIC IS BACK and facing the HUGE consequences of the mega-hit Sonic/Mega Man crossover story arc in “At All Costs” Part Two! As the crossover crashed to a close, Sonic and Tails have returned to a world which is reeling from the cataclysmic effects of the Eggman/Wily Genesis […]

Pain & Gain, 2013. Directed by Michael BayStarring Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, Ed Harris, Rebel Wilson and Anthony Mackie.   SYNOPSIS: A trio of bodybuilders in Florida get caught up in an extortion ring and a kidnapping scheme that goes terribly wrong. Director Michael Bay has certainly had an interesting filmmaking career. He’s given us a […]

Luke Owen reviews SEX #6, from Image Comics…What is the Saturnalia?! Simon Cooke’s lawyer wants to know – and he’ll do anything to find out! And we do mean ANYTHING. Also this issue: the unfortunate consequences of hi-tech super-villainy. And you knew we’d eventually ask: Do SEX and politics mix?Last month’s review highlighted the main […]

It was rumoured a couple of days ago that Sons of Anarchy star Charlie Hunnam was in the running for the role of Christian Grey in the movie adaptation of popular novel series Fifty Shades of Grey, and he has now been confirmed by the author E.L. James (via Twitter) along with Dakota Johnson (The […]

Over the past couple of months we’ve heard plenty of casting rumours relating to Star Wars: Episode VII, with the likes of Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker), Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia), Harrison Ford (Han Solo), Ian McDiarmid (Emperor Palpatine) and Ewan McGregor (Obi Wan Kenobi) all mentioned as potentially reprising their roles alongside possible new additions […]