Disney will follow its upcoming Phineas and Ferb: Mission Marvel animated special with another cross-over next year, with show creators Dan Povenmire and Jeff “Swampy” Marsh announcing at  Comic-Con that the characters of the hit Disney Channel show are heading to the Star Wars universe for a special one-hour episode. According to Variety, the special […]

For those seeking to have some butter with their popcorn, Carl Freedman studies the political and social underpinnings which can be explored in the crime genre with his sequel to The Incomplete Projects: Marxism, Modernity and the Politics of Culturepublished in 2002.   The crime genre is broken into three categories: Western, Mob, and Film Noir […]

Our weekly round up of all the latest stories from the world of screen superheroes, including The Wolverine, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Deadpool/X-Force, Chronicle 2, Thor: The Dark World, Guardians of the Galaxy, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Marvel One-Shots, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Kick-Ass 2, Man of Steel, Wonder Woman, Batman Beyond, Hellboy 3, […]

Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox, 2013. Directed by Jay Oliva.Featuring the voice talents of Justin Chambers, Kevin McKidd, Vanessa Marshall, Michael B. Jordan, Cary Elwes, C. Thomas Howell, Nathan Fillion, Danny Huston, Ron Perlman, Kevin Conroy, Dana Delany, and Sam Daly. SYNOPSIS: When time travel allows a past wrong to be righted for The Flash […]

After Orson Scott Card’s absence from yesterday’s Ender’s Game Comic-Con panel, Anghus Houvouras asks, is the art or the artist… There’s been a slew of controversy surrounding the ramp up of press for this years’ big screen adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game.  Card is the latest notable figure to get tangled up in […]

The World’s End, 2013. Directed by Edgar Wright.Starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman, Eddie Marsan, Rosamund Pike, David Bradley, and Paddy Considine. SYNOPSIS: Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind’s only hope for survival. In 2004, Spaced heroes Simon Pegg and […]

A new Marvel One-Shot – Agent Carter – is set to be release at the San Diego Comic-Con. Starring Hayley Atwell (Captain America: The First Avenger), it’s supposedly a step up from previous short in both scale and style. Found as extras on Marvel Blu-rays, the shorts feature stories based in the same universe, but […]

Ahead of Sony’s eagerly-awaited Hall H panel later today, Movies.com caught up with director Marc Webb to discuss his plans for expanding the studio’s Spider-Man franchise beyond next year’s sequel The Amazing Spider-Man 2, which sees Andrew Garfield returning as the wall-crawler to do battle with Jamie Foxx’s bad guy Electro – not to mention […]

We round up Thursday’s big talking points and best coverage from around the web of the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con International, including Ender’s Game, Divergent, Oldboy, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Sherlock, Dracula, Teen Wolf, The X-Files, Firefly, Batman: Arkham Origins, The Walking Dead, The Superior Spider-Man and Dexter…. …After opening the convention floor to […]

After years of rivalry between The Simpsons and Family Guy, Fox has announced that its two big animated shows are set to cross-over in 2014 with a Family Guy episode entitled ‘The Simpsons Guy’, which will see Simpsons cast members Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith and Hank Azaria lending their voices to […]