Matt Smith reviews the eleventh episode of Elementary season 2… Just as I start talking about Sherlock Holmes bringing logic back to the world with the return of Elementary last week, he has a week full of self-reflection and cluelessness this week. I’m a step behind the producers of Elementary, and that puts paid to […]

Last week producer Joel Silver (Lethal Weapon, Non-Stop) spoke about his previous plans to bring Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ seminal comic book tale Watchmen to the screen, during which he stated that his and Terry Gilliam’s (Brazil, The Zero Theorem) adaptation would have been “MUCH better” than what we ultimately got from Zack Snyder […]

Back in 2009, Zack Snyder achieved what many thought impossible when he brought Alan Moore and Dave Hibbons seminal comic book Watchmen to the screen. However, things could have been different had Joel Silver (Lethal Weapon, Die Hard) had his way, with the producer spending much of the late 80s and the early 90s attempting […]

According to Deadline, Watchmen and The Conjuring star Patrick Wilson is set to join Marvel’s Phase Three-launching Ant-Man, although there’s no word yet as to which character he will be playing. Ant-Man is being directed by Edgar Wright (The World’s End), with Paul Rudd (Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues) playing Scott Lang and Michael Douglas […]

Gavin Logan on the Oscar race for Best Original Song… With all the intense, anxious debate surrounding predictions, snubs, and “who are you wearing?” (like any of us really care) people could be forgiven for forgetting that the Oscars is supposed to fun. One of my favourite categories, and one that tends to get overlooked, […]

We’re still six months away from the release of Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, the follow-up to Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller’s 2005 cult classic, but according to Rodriguez, legendary comic book creator Miller is already turning his attention to the third instalment, having started work on Sin City 3. “I was just […]

With a ten month delay on Batman vs. Superman, we’ve got a bit longer to wait before we see The Dark Knight going up against the Man of Steel, but if you’re desperate for any kind of Bat-crossover right now and ever happened to wonder how Bruce Wayne would fare against Skynet and its army […]

Villordsutch reviews Wolves by Simon Ings… “Two friends are working at the cutting edge of this technology and when they are offered backing to take the idea and make it into the next global entertainment they realise that wolves hunt in this imagined world. And the wolves might be them. A story about technology becomes […]

The Fifth Estate, 2013. Directed by Bill Condon.Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Daniel Bruhl, Anthony Mackie, David Thewlis, Alicia Vikander, Stanley Tucci, and Laura Linney. SYNOPSIS: A dramatic thriller based on real events that reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century’s most fiercely debated […]

Her, 2013. Written and Directed by Spike Jonze.Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Scarlett Johansson, Olivia Wilde, Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader and Rooney Mara. SYNOPSIS: A lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with his newly purchased operating system that’s designed to meet his every need. I’ve seen Her twice now. The first time I watched it […]