With Matt Smith leaving Doctor Who, Oliver Davis argues that the show needs another change… ‘The Time of the Doctor’ had a rather tough act to follow. The 50th anniversary episode was the closest we’ll ever get to a Doctor Who movie (sorry, Paul McGann), with the fate of Gallifrey, multiple faces from the past […]

Screenwriting guru Syd Field has died in his home at Beverly Hills in the age of 77. According to Variety, Field’s cause of death was hemolytic anemia. Field wrote the book Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting, amongst many others, which has helped countless screenwriters. An obituary contained quotes from great writers Judd Apatow, Tina Fey […]

Beetlejuice 2 is all but confirmed with Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Dark Shadows writer Seth Grahame-Smith penning the screenplay and both Tim Burton and Michael Keaton looking set to return. Now it seems that Winona Ryder is interested in joining the project as well. In an interview with The Daily Beast, Ryder said, “I’m […]

First off, go see Blue Is the Warmest Color when it is released on Friday. It’s an incredible film, maybe the best of the year, and although it spans three hours, it’s an emotional and heartbreaking epic. Star Léa Seydoux (Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol) is involved in a series of incredibly intimate lesbian sex […]

Anghus Houvouras with a weekly wander through the media making its way across the world wide web, including Oldboy, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Homefront and The Delivery Man… The adaptation that no one asked for is finally hitting theaters and being released on a big holiday weekend.  Because […]

Will Forte is a gifted comic. His Saturday Night Live characters are memorable, his brief role in 30 Rock was the highlight of series 5, and now he has a starring role in Alexander Payne’s dramatic comedy Nebraska. Asked by Collider about the dynamic on set, Forte stated that, “It was intimidating going into it, […]

Saul Zaentz, the Academy Award-winning American film producer behind the likes of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus and The English Patient, has passed away after a lengthy battle with Alzheimer’s, aged 92. Born in Passaic, New Jersey in 1921, Zaentz began his career in the music industry after serving in World War II, […]

After releasing their list of the top ten most pirated TV shows (topped for the second year running by Game of Thrones), the folks over at Torrent Freak have now turned their attention to the most pirated movies of the year. Leading the way with almost eight and a half million illegal downloads is Peter […]

Matt Smith reviews the ninth episode of Elementary season 2… Complexity is more than just for puzzles. Sherlock Holmes probably knows this. They make for a much more interesting person. Shades of grey in a character, as well as a person, can create interest and hold curiosity in an instant. As mentioned last week, Sherlock […]

Despite announcing his retirement from filmmaking, Kevin Smith is currently putting the finishing touches to his low-budget horror Tusk, and still has plans to explore the further adventures of Dante and Randall with Clerks III, which he intends to shoot in 2014. However, it seems he’s also added another project to his slate in in […]