Last year, it was revealed that Tim Burton has turned his attention to the long-rumoured sequel to his 1988 breakthrough Beetlejuice, and now leading man Michael Keaton has confirmed that he’s been speaking to the director about returning to the role of the mischievous trickster and “bio-exorcist” during a promotional interview with MTV for his […]

Luke Owen remembers Harold Ramis… You only have to listen to the Tinsel Town Stiffs section of Kevin Smith and Ralph Garman’s Hollywood Babble On to know that not a week goes by where the entertainment industry doesn’t lose one of its stars. This year alone we have seen tragic loses in James Avery and […]

Gary Collinson tries out Morphsuits’ Amazing Spider-Man costume… Spider-Selfie I’m Spider-Man… Okay, so maybe an aging Spider-Man carrying a few extra pounds is a more apt description, but having spent the best part of the last day dressed as Marvel’s friendly neighbourhood web-slinger, I’m about ready to head out onto the streets to take out […]

Trevor Hogg chats with Ales Kot about comics and the creation of Edward Zero… “What is an artist?” asks Ales Kot. “If anything done sufficiently well is art, then I certainly come from a family of artists. My mother was a social worker and became an interior designer; her mother worked at the post office most […]

Trevor Hogg chats with writers Mike Raicht and Austin Harrison along with illustrator Zach Howard about turning their creative relationship into a business partnership starting with the release of Wild Blue Yonder.  As an added bonus preview pages of Wild Blue Yonder #4 have been included…  Mike Raicht “My grandmother is a writer, but other […]

According to Ralph Fiennes, production on the 24th instalment of the James Bond franchise will begin shooting this October ahead of its release in the UK on October 23rd and in North America on November 6th. “It’s meant to start shooting in October,” Fiennes tells MTV News. “I haven’t read a script yet, so I […]

Playtime, 1967. Directed by Jacques Tati.Starring Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek and Rita Maiden. SYNOPSIS: Monsieur Hulot battles the modern architecture and technology of Paris, creating pockets of benign chaos through to the early morning. Playtime opens on an airport lounge for what feels like ages. People are dwarfed in the longshot, going about their business. […]

Oliver Davis continues our Buster Keaton month with reviews of The Electric House and The Navigator… The Electric House, 1922. Silent comedies like these often have such overly complex set-ups. For The Electric House, a two-reeler (about 20 minutes long), Buster Keaton has his ‘Botany’ degree mixed up with an electrical engineer’s (Steve Murphy) at […]

Simon Columb begins our Al Pacino Retrospective with a look at The Panic in Needle Park… While we read of those trapped in the never-ending cycle of drug-use, it is more tragic and soul-destroying to see the innocent victim pulled into it. In 1971, The Panic in Needle Park captures the story of an artist’s […]

Simon Columb continues our Buster Keaton month with a review of The General… Though The General is the highest ranked comedy in Sight and Sound’s recent poll of ‘The Greatest Films of All-Time’, it is interesting to note how it failed to recoup the costly production in 1927. An expensive bridge-destruction rivalling The Bridge on […]