Arne Dahl – The Complete First Season. Starring Malin Arvidsson, Irene Lindh, Claes Ljungmark, Shanti Roney, Magnus Samuelsson, Matias Varela and Niklas Åkerfelt. SYNOPSIS: An elite team of detectives are assembled to solve a series of high-priority, violent crimes. The reputation and allure of Scandinavian crime and mystery television (or ‘nordic noir’) has been steadily […]

With the death of Tony Scott last August, question marks have been hanging over the status of the long-rumoured sequel to his 1986 blockbuster Top Gun, which would have reteamed the director with producer Jerry Bruckheimer and star Tom Cruise. However, speaking at the 2013 Produced By conference on Sunday, Bruckheimer revealed that Top Gun […]

Commenting on the Critics with Simon Columb… Peter Preston writes for The Guardian about the “train-wreck” of an interview Janice Turner conducted for The Times with Rhys Ifans: “News is a train wreck rather than the 3.35 from Bournemouth arriving on time; so Janice Turner’s train wreck of a Times interview with antibiotically challenged actor […]

According to the British newspaper The Telegraph, the BBC has made an offer to Rory Kinnear to replace Matt Smith as the next incarnation of the Time Lord in the long-running sci-fi series Doctor Who. According to The Telegraph’s source, Kinner – who portrayed MI6 officer Bill Tanner in the Bond films Quantum of Solace […]

Leonardo DiCaprio is set to portray Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin, the infamous Russian mystic, healer and prolific womaniser who rose to become one of the most influential advisors to the Russian Imperial family the Romanovs in the early 20th century before being poisoned, shot, beaten, shot, strangled, clubbed, shot, castrated and then shot again by his […]

John Lucking reviews the eleventh episode of Hannibal…. “Directed by Guillermo Navarro”; and with that you know you’re going to be watching Hannibal at its best, both visually and thematically. Navarro’s imagination has lent itself beautifully to Will’s mental state and the various grisly goings on, and ‘Rôti’ was no exception to this rule. The […]

With Man of Steel set to arrive in cinemas next week, Anghus Houvouras looks at the ‘controversy’ surrounding the casting of a British actor as the iconic superhero… Americans are a xenophobic lot.  I know this because I’m one of them. And while I don’t share my fellow countrymen’s blind fear of the unknown, I […]

Robb Ghag reviews Thanos Rising #3… “The Mad Titan flees his home in search of true love.But how many lives will he have to take to find it?The book so blood-soaked you’ll be glad it’s a mini-series.” This book is progressively getting better. In the Marvel Universe where everyone is an Avenger or battling their […]

Robb Ghag reviews Age of Ultron #9… “To save the planet Earth – and maybe the entire galaxy! – the heroes of the Marvel Universe made the most controversial decision of their lives. The results have brought disaster the likes of which they have never seen before. And now, with one final chance.can they make […]

Anthony Stokes assesses the career of Sam Raimi… When it comes to genre directors it’s harder to find anyone bigger or more respected then Sir Sam Raimi. He has consistently delivered hit after hit and pretty much everything he touches gains a cult following. Raimi has had a lot of commercial success, headlining multiple franchises […]