Simon Columb attends BFI Southbank’s Rita Hayworth retrospective…Two years after Citizen Kane, the genius Orson Welles married Rita Hayworth. This was her second marriage lasting three years before they separated – but not before a brief rekindling of their romance on the set of The Lady from Shanghai. It didn’t last long and they divorced […]

Television company HBO, producers of some of the most successful TV coming out of America over the past few years, including Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire and The Wire, has announced its plans to turn popular author Neil Gaiman’s book American Gods into a six season series. The book is about mystical beings, including Gods […]

If you’re struggling to keep track of all the characters in Game of Thrones, then the fourth season isn’t going to make things any easier for you. We might still be some nine months away from the return of the epic fantasy series, but casting for the new additions is now underway, with Entertainment Weekly […]

Sony Pictures is looking to expand its superhero output beyond The Amazing Spider-Man franchise by snapping up the movie rights to Captain Planet and the Planeteers, with The Hollywood Reporter revealing that the studio is in final negotiations with producers Mark Gordon (Saving Private Ryan), Don Murphy (Transformers) and Susan Montford (Real Steel) with regards […]

Anthony Stokes asks whether Spider-Man 3 is really as bad as people say….There are some rarely unchallenged consensuses in the geek community…. The Wrath of Khan is the best Star Trek movie, Christopher Nolan is a genius, etc. One of these is that Spider-Man 3 is a god-awful movie and a disappointment. Even stepping in […]

Anghus Houvouras reviews the sixth issue of Marvel NOW!’s Uncanny X-Men…“The Uncanny X-Men face evil sorcerer DORMAMMU! Don’t miss this new take on the evil sorcerer demon courtesy of Bendis and Irving. Discover the secrets Magik has been hiding since the Phoenix Force left her in AVENGERS VS. X-MEN.” The X-Men books have been downright […]

Oliver Sunley explores the filthy world of John Waters… When John Waters, the self-proclaimed “Sultan of Sleaze”, directed Hairspray he was shocked by the film’s enormous commercial success and found himself faced with a choice: continue making the trash films he’d always done or go mainstream? Hairspray had been awarded a PG rating and was […]

Jake Peffer reviews the third season of Bob’s Burgers… In 2011, Fox unveiled a new animated show called Bob’s Burgers. While at first it wasn’t a critical success and didn’t gain a huge audience it has gone on to become somewhat of a cult show. After a short second season everyone was surprised to see […]

Robb Ghag reviews Detective Comics #21… “Harper Row joins Batman on a case that leads all the way back to Detective Comics #0, but will The Dark Knight be willing to accept her help?“ After the last series arc of Emperor Penguin ended I was curious to see where they would take the Dark Knight […]

Robb Ghag reviews Age of Ultron #10… “The Finale! The biggest secret in comics will be revealed to you! An ending so confidential even the artists of this book don’t know what lies on the final pages! A surprise so big that comic book legend Joe Quesada himself returns to the pages of Marvel Comics […]