If you’ve been following development of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 then you’ll probably have guessed this already due to the number of characters – and more specifically villains – that are set to feature, but director Marc Webb has described the upcoming solo sequel as “huge”, as well as “the most ambitious” Spider-Man movie to […]

Matt Smith reviews the season two premiere of The Following… And so it returns. I think that’s how the followers of Joe Carroll would’ve preferred to say it, what with their grandiose entrance to a train carriage. At least after the longest ‘Previously on…’ in the history of television. What with that having to be […]

For someone contemplating his retirement a year ago, Kevin Smith has certainly found a new wave of inspiration, thanks in no small part to his various SModcast podcasts. Episodes have already inspired the upcoming horror Tusk and the kaiju Jesus feature Helena Handbag, and now Smith has announced that he’s working on another Christmas-themed horror […]

Last month it was announced that Paramount Pictures is to reboot The Naked Gun, with Ed Helms taking on the role of Sergeant Frank Drebin, Detective Lieutenant Police Squad, made famous of course by the legendary Leslie Nielsen in the 80s TV series Police Squad! and its subsequent movie trilogy. But, according to co-writer Ben […]

20th Century Fox’s The Fantastic Four is finally starting to move forward, with Fox and director Josh Trank (Chronicle) said to be testing several actors this month ahead of principal photography starting at the back end of March, and now we may have a plot synopsis for the reboot, which suggests radically different origins for […]

The story of Philippe Petit’s attempt to tightrope across the twin towers in 1974 was most recently captured in the Oscar winning documentary Man on Wire. This is about to change, as Twitch are reporting that Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future, Flight) plans to adapt the autobiography Petit’s tale, known as To Reach the […]

The Terminator franchise is one that’s mostly forgotten since its glory days of The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgement Day; perhaps that’s why several compaies were involved with the resurrection of said franchise with the anticipated Terminator: Genesis reboot. Well, until recently that is, as Megan Ellison’s Annapurna Pictures has now dropped out of the project, leaving it to Skydance […]

Piers McCarthy chats with Ian Nathan, author of Masters of Cinema: Ethan and Joel Coen… With Joel and Ethan Coen’s latest – Inside Llewyn Davis – due out today, I’ve returned to the filmography of the two enigmatic brothers, and a Masters of Cinema book dedicated to them. The author of said book is Ian […]

Robb Ghag reviews All-New X-Men #22… “The arrival of the original X-Men in the present sent shockwaves through the Marvel Universe, but we’ve only seen the effects on Earth. When alien races learn that Jean Grey, host of the destructive Phoenix Force, is back on earth, they do something about it. Now it’s up to […]

Marvel Studios has decided to take advantage of Warner Bros.’ decision to push Batman vs. Superman back to May 2016 by moving forward the release of its first Phase Three offering Ant-Man, with the film now set to arrive on occupy the Man of Steel sequel’s slot on July 17th 2015, as opposed to its […]