To promote next month’s update for Random House’s George R.R. Martin’s A World of Ice and Fire app, a brief excerpt – read single paragraph – from the The Winds of Winter, the sixth novel of Martin’s epic fantasy saga has arrived online, with a full chapter set to land with the app update. The […]

Piers McCarthy reviews the eleventh episode of The Walking Dead season 4… Thinking that the end of the last episode would provide a decent new set of characters may have been a mistake. That’s not to say that Abraham, Eugene and Rosita are meaningless, but their impact on the show has yet to be made. […]

Gangster Squad and Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer has signed onto helm family comedy Overnight, a Home Alone-style romp set in a toy shop similar to FAO Schwartz. Plot details are being kept to an absolute minimum but it looks set to centre on a recently divorced father trying to save his relationship with his son. Neal […]

Villordsutch reviews Star Trek #30… “Captain Jane Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise fight fortheir lives in this concluding chapter of a 2-part story overseen by STAR TREK writer/producer Roberto Orci! The Five Year Mission between blockbuster movies continues here, in this all-new mind-bending adventure!” Some of you may remember that I wasn’t overly […]

Before Dave Bautista was cast in the role, there were reports that Jason Momoa had emerged as Marvel’s pick to play Drax the Destroyer in Guardians of the Galaxy, only for the Game of Thrones and Conan the Barbarian star to allegedly turn down the studio’s offer to join the cosmic superhero ensemble. Well, speaking […]

It’s been less than two days since the incredibly sad passing of comedy great Harold Ramis, but it seems as if this short amount of time has become a catalyst for the production of the long-rumoured Ghostbusters III. Over at The Hollywood Reporter, it has been revealed that the project hasn’t been totally derailed. Instead […]

Over the past couple of years Warner Bros. has really struggled to hold a director down for its planned adaptation of the Stephen King epic The Stand. The project has already passed through the hands of David Yates (Harry Potter), Ben Affleck (Argo) and Scott Cooper (Out of the Furnace), and now The Wrap is […]

Andy Naylor reviews Judge Dredd #16… “Twelve street judges have been slaughtered by a masked maniac with a dimension-jump machine. He has the thirteenth in his gun sights right now, and the only Judge who can stop the killer—Dredd—is a billion miles away. But it’s not so much the number of dead judges in the […]

Warren Beatty’s long gestating Howard Hughes film has finally got off the ground, with Deadline reporting that funding has been secured for the project and shooting is now underway. The film will focus on Hughes’ assistant, played by Alden Ehrenreich (Beautiful Creatures) and a young woman with whom he falls in love with, portrayed by […]

Last week, a report emerged suggesting that Marvel Studios had identified four potential directors for the long-awaited Doctor Strange movie in Mark Andrews (Brave), Nikolaj Arcel (A Royal Affair), Dean Israelite (Welcome to Yesterday) and Jonathan Levine (Warm Bodies), seemingly indicating that the Sorcerer Supreme is set to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe as part […]