Chris Cooper reviews the first issue of IDW’s four-part miniseries Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Secret History of the Foot Clan… “Demons, ninjas, and hostile takeovers-what more can you expect from a TMNT comic? The first instalment of this new miniseries reveals a history never told before about the original founder of the Foot. Join the […]

Baraka, 1992. Directed by Ron Fricke. SYNOPSIS: A montage of photographed images telling, “The story of our planet, and human interaction within it.” Cinema is by definition a visual medium, and if this is the beating heart of cinema, then director Ron Fricke and producer Mark Magidson’s Baraka adopts this identity with power. The opening […]

Luke Owen takes in a Muppet movie marathon…Where 3 guys (this time joined by girlfriends and children) watch franchise movies one after the others. This marathon is sponsored by pizza.(This was back in December, so I’m a bit late on the report – sorry!)It’s time to play the music, it’s time to light the lights, it’s time […]

Luke Owen reviews the latest issue of Transformers: Robots in Disguise…“ON THE PROWL! It’s “no more mister nice guy,” as CYBERTRON burns and one AUTOBOT is all that stand between order and anarchy. Meet the new PROWL—deadlier than ever, colder than any other AUTOBOT, and ready to end the DECEPTICON threat—forever.”I came under fire last […]

Luke Owen reviews the second issue of IDW’s January Mars Attacks series…“In 1970s New York, four teens are handed the power to become godlike figures… unless some attacking Martians find a way to steal that power for themselves! A tale torn from the original 1976 Kiss comic, courtesy of Chris “God of Thunder” Ryall and […]

After his breakthrough success with last year’s found footage hit Chroncile, director Josh Trank has now turned his attention to Marvel’s First Family for 20th Century Fox’s Fantastic Four, which is due to arrive on screens in 2015, and speaking to SciFiNow, Fox’s Marvel creative consultant Mark Millar (Wanted, Kick-Ass) has taken a moment to […]

New Line Cinema is pushing ahead with the big screen adaptation of the cult classic comic book series Y: The Last Man. According to Deadline, Dan Trachtenberg is set to direct the film, after generating his own buzz in a creative way in 2011 by creating an online trailer for a faux movie based on […]

Despite the movie being slated for 25th April 2014, Steven Spielberg’s Robopocalypse seems to have hit a few major road blocks. The Hollywood Reporter is claiming that the movie has been put on indefinite hold.According to Martin Levy, speaking on behalf of Spielberg, the project is “too important and the script is not ready, and it’s […]

Paul Risker discusses the third season of the hit Danish crime drama The Killing… During the latter part of last year, the end seemed to arrive a little sooner than what I was accustomed to. Two foreign crime dramas which had become an integral part of BBC Four’s Saturday evening foreign crime line-up concluded in […]

After a supporting role in last year’s action ensemble The Expendables 2, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s screen comeback steps up a gear this month with the release of Kim Jee-Woon’s The Last Stand. The action icon has several original projects on his upcoming slate (including The Tomb and Ten), after which he’s due to head back to […]