It seems that anything Microsoft does, Sony does better. Just yesterday, Microsoft announced that 3 million Xbox Ones had been sold in 2013 and in what can only be call one-upmanship, Sony has  revealed sales of 4.2 million PlayStation 4 consoles. Meanwhile, Sony has also unveiled the new PlayStation Now service, which is set to […]

At this point, there’s been so much speculation circulated as news on Batman vs. Superman that it’s almost impossible to tell which rumours have any weight to them, and which are simply guesswork designed to attract hits. One of the biggest rumours on the Man of Steel sequel last year was that Bryan Cranston had […]

There’s only a few months to go before Marvel kicks off the 2014 superhero season with the release of its latest Phase Two solo sequel Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and speaking to Empire Magazine, leading man Chris Evans has spoken about his third outing as the Sentinel of Liberty: “I don’t think Marvel’s ever […]

Deadline are reporting that Steven Spielberg (Lincoln, War Horse) is circling yet another period epic as his next directorial piece – Montezuma. The film is based on the Spanish infiltration into Mexico in 1519, led by Hernán Cortés. The Conquistador and his men brought with them arms, a lust for riches, and, most dangerously in […]

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 […]