James Gunn, director of the much anticipated Guardians of the Galaxy, has been speaking to Total Film about the techniques used to bring Rocket Raccoon (who’s set to be voiced by Bradley Cooper) to the screen in the cosmic Marvel movie. On set, Gunn made sure they had a real raccoon named Oreo in order […]

With Matthew Vaughn’s (Kick-Ass, X-Men: First Class) adaptation of Mark Millar’s The Secret Service having all but wrapped production, comic book creator Millar has hinted towards a collaboration with Brad Pitt in the near future. During a Twitter exchange between Millar and Chris Hewitt of Empire Magazine, the former tweeted, “Pitt is top choice and would […]

Robb Ghag reviews Detective Comics #27… “Don’t miss a modern-day retelling of The Dark Knight’s origin by the incredible team of writer Brad Meltzer and artist Bryan Hitch! Plus, all-new stories by Scott Snyder and Sean Murphy, Peter J. Tomasi and Guillem March, Paul Dini and Dustin Nguyen, Gregg Hurwitz and Neal Adams, new art […]

Well this is an interesting rumour. A mysterious casting call has made its way across the Internet documenting a return to Twin Peaks for visionary auteur David Lynch… “TWIN PEAKS PROMO. Directed by David Lynch. Shoots in Los Angeles on Tuesday, January 7, 2014. Prob a 6 hour or less day. Rate is 150/8. You […]

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 […]