Anghus Houvouras on Star Trek Into Darkness and the failure of fan service (warning, major Star Trek Into Darkness spoilers follow)…. Fan service.  It’s an act of appeasement.  An effort to try and satisfy the fan base of a particular franchise while trying to do your own thing with it.   The truth is, fan service […]

Robb Ghag reviews Age of Ultron #8… “With the Marvel Universe turned inside out, who will take responsibility for breaking the world? And is there any way to put it back? Wait until you see who is in charge of the new world order and how they got there…! A reality-spanning choice is made this […]

With Sam Mendes passing on the opportunity to helm the next instalment in the James Bond franchise, Eon Productions has a pretty big job on its hands replacing the Skyfall director for 007’s next big screen adventure. However, if a new rumour is to be believed, it seems that producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. […]

Alice Rush reviews episode 9 of the Psycho prequel series Bates Motel…. The penultimate episode is always a tricky one. It has to set up the finale, without revealing too much, but still start to working towards a conclusion. And there is still plenty to conclude in Bates Motel. The last episode ended with Norma […]

Earlier this week it was revealed that Pixar has at least one other sequel in development beyond 2015’s Finding Nemo follow-up Finding Dory; while Toy Story 4 must surely be at the top of any list, it wouldn’t be too much of a surprise to see the Disney-owned animation studio attempting to capitalise on the […]

I’m So Excited (Spanish: Los amantes pasajeros), 2013. Writted and Directed by Pedro Almodovar.Starring Antonio de la Torre, Hugo Silva, Miguel Ángel Silvestre, Javier Cámara, Pepa Charro, Lola Dueñas, Laya Martí, Antonio Banderas and Penélope Cruz. SYNOPSIS: When it appears as though the end is in sight, the pilots, flight crew, and passengers of a […]

Iron Man 3, 2013. Directed by Shane Black.Starring Robert Downey Jr, Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Rebecca Hall, Ben Kingsley, and Jon Favreau. SYNOPSIS: When Tony Stark’s world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution.   Marvel’s latest instalment in their comic book franchise and […]

White Tiger (Russian: Belyy tigr), 2012. Directed Karen Shakhnazarov.Starring Aleksey Vertkov, Vitaliy Kishchenko, Valeriy Grishko, Dmitriy Bykovskiy-Romashov, Gerasim Arkhipov and Aleksandr Vakhov. SYNOPSIS: After barely surviving a battle with a mysterious, ghostly-white Tiger tank, Red Army Sergeant Ivan Naydenov becomes obsessed with its destruction. From the looks of the DVD packaging and a brilliantly hammy […]

The Collection, 2012. Directed by Marcus Dunstan.Starring Josh Stewart, Emma Fitzpatrick, Christopher McDonald, Lee Tergesen, Tim Griffin, Andre Royo and Randall Archer. SYNOPSIS: A traumatized man forced to help rescue a beautiful woman who has become the latest obsession of a crazed killer who collects humans in a booby-trapped house of horrors. Another day, another […]

You Will Be My Son (French: Tu seras mon fils), 2011  Directed by Gilles Legrand.Starring Niels Arestrup, Lorant Deutsch, Patrick Chesnais, Anne Marivan, Nicolas Bridet and Valerie Mairesse. SYNOPSIS: Paul de Marseul (Arestrup) is a prestigious but aging wine-maker whose son Martin (Deutsch) lacks talent or indeed the will to succeed him. When Philippe (Bridet) […]