Anghus Houvouras reviews Zero #2… “Shanghai, 2019. An opulent skyscraper party full of terrorists looking for fresh funding. Edward Zero is about to sabotage it big time — and then the skyscraper starts to vanish, bit by bit. So maybe he should look into that first?” The concept behind Ales Kot’s new Image series Zero […]

For those hoping that the recently announced Batman vs Superman film might lead to those rumoured Flash and Justice League films, I’m afraid we have some bad news: Flash is potentially heading to TV. Deadline has reported that The CW and Warner Bros. TV will today be discussing the project and getting a pilot episode […]

Martin Deer reviews The Treasures of Bruce Lee: The Official Story of the Legendary Martial Artist…. Paul Bowman, author of The Treasures of Bruce Lee, has written several books of which this is the third on Bruce Lee. The first two, Theorizing Bruce Lee and Beyond Bruce Lee, take analytic looks at the cultural impact […]

Flickering Myth’s writing team discuss their favourite movie soundtracks; next up is Anthony Stokes with Attack the Block… Attack the Block is one of my favorite movies of 2011 simply because of how much it does with so little. All the actors are unknowns, it’s a first time director in Joe Cornish, the budget is […]

Anthony Stokes on whether movie geeks are too close-minded… James Gunn, director of the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy, has received a lot of flack on Twitter for “forcing” Doctor Who star Karen Gillan to shave her head for the role of Nebula.  Never mind that this was almost certainly her decision, that she looks […]

The recent Beverly Hills Cop TV pilot may have failed to make it to series, but that doesn’t mean we’ve seen the last of Axel Foley, with Deadline reporting that Eddie Murphy has signed on to reprise the role of the fast-talking, street-wise Detroit police detective for Beverly Hills Cop 4. The project is apparently […]

Having rejuvenated the G.I. Joe franchise earlier this year with the sequel G.I. Joe: Retaliation, director Jon M. Chu is currently prepping the third instalment in the Hasbro franchise, along with another cult 80s kid’s property in Masters of the Universe. During Comic-Con, we heard from Chu about the possibility of Scarlett (played by Rachel […]

Anghus Houvouras on Hollywood’s ‘Franchise Wars’… The franchise wars.  A phrase used by a young Sandra Bullock in the movie Demolition Man used  to explain why all restaurants are now Taco Bell.  It’s a clever idea:  The concept that massive conglomerates ended up in brutal combat eviscerating one another until only one bloody, battered survivor […]

Yesterday we brought you some news coming out of Star Wars Celebration Europe, with confirmation that John Williams is set to return to score Star Wars: Episode VII joined by some concept art from the upcoming animated series Star Wars Rebels [see here]. Now we have an update on the first instalment of Disney’s Sequel […]

Tom Jolliffe looks at what we can expect from the third instalment of The Expendables franchise…. With filming set to start in the fall, Slyvester Stallone – true to form – is keeping everyone guessing and second guessing as to who will be in The Expendables 3, and where the story may take us. When […]