Anghus Houvouras believes that hardcore fans are killing the potential of superhero movies…. Warning – spoilers ahead… Comic book adaptations are rife with challenges.  Making a $200 million epic that pleases everyone has to be a thankless task.  You’re never going to please everyone.  Especially those hardcore fanboys who believe they know best.  I’ve read […]

Villordsutch reviews Doctor Who Vol. 3 #10…  “The missing Doctor has been found! But now the TARDIS has vanished, leaving him and his companion stranded in a strange dimension with seemingly infinite skies!” A word to describe this comic is “packed”.  In just under 30 pages you get so much story that you’ll lose time. […]

Parks and Recreation – Season Two Created by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur.Starring Amy Poehler, Chris Pratt, Rashida Jones, Rob Lowe, Aziz Ansari, Paul Schneider, Nick Hofferman and Aubrey Plaza. SYNOPSIS: Leslie Knope, Pawnee of Indiana’s most enthusiastic public servant, solves all of her town’s problems- hosting a telethon, ridding the golf course of possums […]

The Fall Directed by Jakob Verbruggen.Starring Gillian Anderson, Jamie Dornan, Laura Donnelly, Bronagh Waugh, and Ben Peel. SYNOPSIS: A Detective Superintendent is brought in from the London Metropolitan Police to help catch a killer when a murder in Belfast remains unsolved. The Fall is one of those shows that falls under the Heading “Emperor” and […]

Director Bryan Singer is currently bringing together 20th Century Fox’s two X-Men timelines as cameras roll on next year’s time-travelling mutant epic X-Men: Days of Future Past, but the studio itself has bigger plans afoot, bringing in acclaimed comic book writer and producer Mark Millar (Kick-Ass) to serve as creative consultant as it attempts to […]

Martin Deer reviews the latest issue of Batman… “Twists and turns are around every corner as Bruce Wayne takes the final steps toward his destiny! And in the backup story, learn more about how different Gotham City was at this dangerous point in time.“ Since DC restarted the DC Universe back in 2011, things have […]

Commenting on the Critics with Simon Columb… Scott Mendelson writes for Forbes about the $50 “Mega Ticket” for World War Z… “But two days prior to its national release, Paramount is teaming with Regal Cinemas to offer a sneak preview of the film in five specific theaters for just $50 a ticket … you get […]

Robb Ghag reviews Star Wars #6…. “When he and Chewbacca are cornered by Imperials, Han Solo resorts to an improvised plan with the most dangerous results imaginable! Meanwhile, half a galaxy away, Princess Leia and Wedge Antilles prepare for certain death, unaware that Luke Skywalker has an improvisation of his own. And Darth Vader is […]

John Lucking reviews the twelfth episode of Hannibal…. Being the penultimate episode of any season is a thankless task. Its goal is to build excitement for the next episode and hint at the idea of irreversible changes like deaths or character revelations. It is essentially the little brother to the finale’s big brother; receiving its […]

The Flickering Myth team look at all the news coming from this year’s E3… Well, it’s been quite the week for gaming news (as it usually is at this point every year) with Sony announcing the PS4 and Microsoft unveiling their “plans” for how they see the future of gaming. To put it politely, it […]