According to MarketSaw, Gary Oldman (RoboCop, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes) and Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock, Star Trek Into Darkness) have signed onto star in the new Star Wars trilogy beginning with 2015’s Star Wars: Episode VII. Last month, Oldman confirmed he’d had “conversations” with Lucasfilm but never indicated if he would be taking […]

With production set to get underway next month, The CW has added another name to the cast of The Flash pilot, with Michelle Harrison (Emily Owens, MD) signing on to play Barry Allen’s (Grant Gustin) mother Nora Allen in a guest star / recurring role. Along with Gustin and Harrison, the cast for the David […]

Matt Smith reviews the first episode of True Detective…. One of the keys to making great art is making something different to what’s come before. You must adhere to the most basic principles of your chosen form, but with everything being bought into context, you have to show your audience something new. Not to get […]

Joss Whedon is currently busy with production on the hotly-anticipated sequel The Avengers: Age of Ultron, but if Iron Man 3 screenwriter Drew Pearce is to be believed, it seems that Whedon will be reuniting with Earth’s Mightiest Heroes once again in Phase Three for The Avengers 3… “One of the things when you’re a […]

Man of the moment Jack O’Connell has signed on to Universal’s spy thriller Section 6. The film will focus on the creation of MI6, the British intelligence agency founded during the First World War. Penned by Aaron Berg, Section 6 will be produced by Mark Platt alongside Adam Siegel for Marc Platt Productions. A director […]

Matt Smith reviews the fifth episode of The Following season 2… With last week’s episode feeling like a bit of a filler, with moments that could’ve been powerful or important seemingly sucked dry of major significance, The Following had to up its game. In terms of important moments and, perhaps, imagination. With an episode featuring […]

Meryl Streep has signed on to play famed suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst alongside Carey Mulligan (Shame), Helena Bonham Carter (The King’s Speech), Romola Garai (Amazing Grace), Anne-Marie Duff (Shameless), Natalie Press (Ill Manors), Ben Wishaw (Skyfall) and Brandan Gleeson (In Bruges) in Suffragette. The film will chart the early activists for womens’ liberation and their run-ins […]

When Doctor Who returns to our screens, not only will we be getting a new-look Doctor in Peter Capaldi’s Twelfth incarnation of the Time-Lord, but we’ll also be getting another companion, with Samuel Anderson (The History Boys) adding to the former Emmerdale contingent by joining the cast as Danny Pink, a fellow teacher with Clara […]

Anyone who grew up during the 90s will be very familiar with the SEGA versus Nintendo battle that raged throughout the decade. In the schoolyard, you either a Nintendo kid or you were a SEGA kid. And now, it’s being turned into a movie. Based off Blake J. Harris’ book of the same name, Console […]