Commenting on the Critics with Simon Columb…. A favourite writer, Mark Cousins, acutely demonstrates how criticism is so much more than writing reviews of the weekly Hollywood spectacular in the February 2014 edition of Sight and Sound: “The critic, if she’s any good, will have come to realise that she doesn’t merely respond to art, […]

Over at Batman-on-Film (via Comic Book Therapy), a few rumoured tidbits of information concerning the plot of the Man of Steel sequel Batman vs. Superman have appeared. Of course, these are just rumours but in recent years the site has hit the nail on the head with information concerning The Dark Knight. Most interesting is […]

Although we are yet to have any confirmation of exactly who will be the “stars” of Disney’s Star Wars spin-off movies, the bounty hunter Boba Fett is seemingly all but confirmed as the focus of one of the two films currently in development. Adding to previous reports Metalocapypse director Jon Schnepp claims to knows that […]

Anghus Houvouras on how the media has marketed the 12 Years a Slave poster ‘controversy’… It’s one of those stories that generates passion and indignation.  The entire debate steeped in knee-jerk reactions and emotional outbursts.  The story is designed to make you think a great injustice has been perpetrated.  But when you start to examine […]

This won’t come as much of a surprise seeing as Disney owns both companies, but its been revealed today that Lucasfilm and Marvel are teaming up to publish Star Wars comics and graphic novels starting from 2015. Here’s the official press release for the announcement… The Walt Disney Company’s Lucasfilm Ltd. and Marvel Entertainment are […]

The first season of True Detective was a huge hit for HBO and creator Nic Pizzolatto is now busy prepping a second season of the show. However, rather than following Matthew McConaughey’s Rust Cohle and Woody Harrelson’s Marty Hart in Louisiana, the series will instead follow three new detectives in Los Angeles, and now we have word […]

On New Year’s Eve Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson teased a role in an upcoming DC film from Warner Bros., leading to speculation that WB could be reviving the planned Lobo adaptation, or that Johnson might find himself lining up with the likes of Henry Cavill (Superman), Ben Affleck (Batman) and Gal Gadot (Wonder Woman) in […]

It seems as if Hugh Jackman was expecting the X-Men franchise to be dead and buried following 2006’s X-Men: The Last Stand, with Jackman telling Empire, “I thought that was it. There was already talk about doing a younger version and I was certainly talking about Wolverine and trying to drum up interest in that. […]

ABC may be comfortably winning the ratings battle with Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., but it’s hard to argue that it’s enjoying anywhere near the same level of fan reception as The CW’s own superhero show Arrow, which has been going from strength to strength in its second season. However, Arrow star Stephen Amell has played […]

2013’s highest-grossing star Dwayne Johnson closed out the year last night with his annual ‘#RockTalk’ on Twitter, during which he teased a potential DC movie role, stating that: “We just had a big meeting w/ Warner Bros CEO re: DC Comics 2014 we will partner up and create the cool bad assery.” Johnson has previously […]