It’s been a few months since Disney announced it was to relaunch the Star Wars saga in the wake of its shock purchase of Disney, and while it seems we’re no closer to discovering who will direct the next instalment, we can now definitely scratch another filmmaker from the list as Guillermo del Toro has […]

The Golden Empire (a.k.a The Horde), 2012.Directed by Andrei Proshkin.Starring Maksim Sukhanov, Roza Khairullina, Innokenti Dakaiarov, Vitaliy Khaev and Aleksandr Yatsenko.SYNOPSIS:It is 1357. In the capital of the Mongol Empire the new Khan’s mother has lost her sight. A healer must be found…At its height, the Mongol Empire stretched over half of Europe and Asia, […]

Jackpot (Norwegian: Arme Riddere), 2011. Written and Directed by Magnus Martens.Starring Kyrre Hellum, Henrik Mestad, Mads Ousdal, Arthur Berning, Andreas Cappelen and Lena Kristin Ellingsen. SYNOPSIS: Oscar Svendson (Kyrre Hellum) regains consciousness clutching a shotgun beneath the body of a dead prostitute and recounts his unlikely story to the investigating detective. After the left-field success […]

Piranhaconda, 2011Directed by Jim Wynorski.Starring Michael Madsen, Rachel Hunter, Shandi Finnessey, Terri Ivens, Robert ‘Rib’ Hills and Chris De Christopher.SYNOPSIS:Part Snake! Part Fish! All Killer!No budget maestro Roger Corman and his merry band of exploitation filmmakers are back with another made for TV giant monster movie in the form of Piranhaconda which, as you may […]

The Girl, 2012.Directed by Julian Jarrold.Starring Toby Jones, Sienna Miller, Penelope Wilton, Imelda Staunton, Sean Cameron Michael, Candice D’Arcy, Carl Beukes, Conrad Kemp and Adrian Galley.SYNOPSIS:Cast as the lead in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, unknown actress Tippi Hedren finds herself the target of the filmmaker’s sexual desires as he attempts to mold her into the […]

Pitch Perfect, 2012. Directed by Jason Moore.Starring Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Skylar Astin, Anna Camp, Brittany Snow, Ester Dean, Ben Platt, and Adam DeVine. SYNOPSIS: A feisty coed joins a collegiate a cappella group and upgrades their song selection for the 21st century during the run-up to a major competition. When I saw the initial […]

Luke Owen reviews the first instalment of IDW’s January crossover series…  Mars Attacks Martians invade five different IDW timelines and universes this month, starting with their assault on Sweethaven. How can Popeye, Alice the Goon, the Sea Hag the rest of the one-eyed sailor’s friends and foes possibly contend with this threat from beyond the […]

Zero Dark Thirty, 2012.Directed by Kathryn Bigelow.Starring Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Joel Edgerton, Mark Strong, Chris Pratt, Kyle Chandler, Taylor Kinney, Mark Duplass, Stephen Dillane, Edgar Ramirez, Frank Grillo, Harold Perrineau, Jennifer Ehle, James Gandolfini, Scott Adkins and John Barrowman.SYNOPSIS:A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September […]

Commenting on the Critics with Simon Columb… Paul Harris writes for The Guardian why Superman is so popular:“Some have taken the point of the moral teachings of Superman stories further, seeing a powerful philosophical concept behind them. In his book [Professor Benjamin] Saunders devotes a chapter to Superman, in which he suggests that the character’s […]

Oliver Davis reviews Batman Incorporated #6…The first panel of Batman Incorporated #6 seems lifted from a hard-boiled detective thriller. Bruce Wayne steers the Batmobile with one hand, an electric shaver trimming his stubble in the other. At the end of the sublime #5, a group of Batman Inc. operatives were blown up in a booby […]