Anthony Stokes on five recent movies that deserve a second look…. Although we act as though we are the supreme authority and last word on movies, it’s important to remember that critics are humans.  The notion of watching a movie objectively without any opinion or agenda creeping in is not true. Even if indifferent to […]

Helen Murdoch believes that World War Z has been 2013’s biggest surprise…. We’re nearing the end of July and so far the films of 2013 have been a mixed bag to say the least. Man of Steel was the big “one to watch” this year, yet audiences were divided on it and it became one […]

It is of course a landmark year for Doctor Who, with the Time Lord celebrating his 50th anniversary with a range of programming including the upcoming special The Day of the Doctor starring Matt Smith, David Tennant and John Hurt, before Smith hands things over to the Twelfth Doctor Peter Capaldi with this year’s Christmas […]

With Marvel having taken its first steps into live-action television with Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., we’ve already heard talk that the Marvel One-Shot Agent Carter could be heading to the small screen, as well as confirmation from Captain America: The First Avenger star Hayley Atwell that she’d be keen to return to the role for a […]

Anghus Houvouras on how nerds ruin movies…. Gravity is fast becoming a phenomenon here in the U.S.  It’s second week tally is $40 million giving it one of the most successful second weekends of 2013 and is on the fast track to becoming one of the year’s biggest hits.  A movie that achieves this level […]

The X-Files may be twenty years old now – and absent from the screen since 2008’s The X Files: I Want to Believe – but that doesn’t mean we’ve necessarily seen the last of FBI Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, at least if stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson have any say in the […]

A few months ago, a collective sigh and groan of mass disappointment ensued as a result of the casting of Charlie Hunnam (Sons of Anarchy, Pacific Rim) in the Fifty Shades of Grey adaptation. Thankfully, the Kaiju bashing, redneck smashing has dropped out of the “mummy porn” adaptation due to his “immersive TV schedule” on […]

Robb Ghag reviews Dexter #4…. “Dexter Morgan isn’t just Miami’s #1 forensic blood splatter expert, he’s also a serial killer who targets other serial killers! Has Dexter met his match and did he help create him?The bodies are piling up—and Dexter might be next!” The finale of Dexter may have come and gone, but we […]

While Disney’s purchase of Lucasfilm proved good news for Star Wars fans looking to see more adventures from a galaxy far, far away on the big screen, it also sadly meant the cancellation of the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, which came to an abrupt end this year at the close of its […]

Step Brothers and Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby duo Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly are to team up for a third time as co-leads in Devil’s Night, a new comedy from Sony which Ferrell is producing alongside Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues helmer Adam McKay. The script for the film has been […]