Deadline has revealed that NBC has found its lead for the upcoming TV pilot Constantine, with the site reporting that Welsh actor Matt Ryan (The Tudors, Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior) has signed on to play the supernatural detective John Constantine in an adaptation of DC’s Hellblazer. He’ll take over from Keanu Reeves who portrayed the […]

When it comes to superhero movie news, Warner Bros. has taken a back seat to Marvel Studios, 20th Century Fox and Sony this past week, but with a lull in Batman vs. Superman headlines, Latino-Review has thrown up another casting rumour for the Man of Steel sequel, claiming that the studio is looking to add […]

Matt Smith reviews the tenth episode of Elementary season 2… With a mid-season break, a concept devoid of all logical definition as a break between series could be called a mid-season break, now officially over you may think Sherlock Holmes of all characters might have put the time to good use. And it seems he […]

Anghus Houvouras on why getting upset over The Fantastic Four casting is wasted energy…. The internet is a fun, if often irrational place. We (and by ‘we’ I mean internet movie sites) spend so much time speculating wildly about everything revolving around geek movies and comic book adaptations (myself included). Then when announcement are finally […]

With the release of the eagerly anticipated sequel The Raid 2: Berandal just around the corner, Screen Gems and XYZ have decided to cash in on the success of Welsh filmmaker Gareth Evans’ hard-hitting Indonesian action hit with a Hollywood remake. According to The Wrap, Patrick Hughes – director of the excellent Aussie western Red […]

Anthony Stokes is excited by the casting on Fox’s upcoming reboot of The Fantastic Four… After months of rumors and tons of backlash The Fantastic Four have been cast. This isn’t intentional, but it seems that movies people are excited for I don’t care about (Batman vs. Superman, The Amazing Spider-Man 2) and the that […]

Gavin Logan reviews the second episode of Fleming… While last week’s opener did a respectable job at seemingly setting the tone for the following episodes, teasing us with just the right combination of action and sexual accomplishment that we are so use to seeing from a Bond movie, Episode 2 smacks us in the face […]

Anghus Houvouras on how spoilers are ruining film sites…. I’ve been pretty ambivalent about the spoiler outrage that has gripped the online communities since their existence.  Even when they were microscopic.  No doubt at some point in 1992 there were four film fans on a BBS Bulletin Board and one of them ruined The Crying […]

Every Wednesday, FM writers Simon Columb and Brogan Morris write two short reviews on Woody Allen films … in the hope of watching all his films over the course of roughly 49 weeks. If you have been watching Woody’s films and want to join in, feel free to comment with short reviews yourself! Next up […]

Fox’s Batman prequel series Gotham has added a new villain to its cast, with Jada Pinkett Smith (The Matrix Revolutions, Madagascar) set to play newly-created mobster Fish Mooney, who Deadline describes as “an imposing, hotheaded and notoriously sadistic gangster boss and nightclub owner with street smarts and almost extra-sensory abilities to read people like an […]