In just over a month’s time Tom Hiddleston will make his third appearance as Loki in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe as he reunited with Chris Hemworth’s God of Thunder for Thor: The Dark World, and while he’s already ruled out an appearance in The Avengers: Age of Ultron, it seems all but assured that we won’t […]

Sam Thorne on the rise of the antihero…. Ever since the turn of the century, culture’s been going in an odd, strange direction. Typically recent entertainment content has had an emphasis on blood, violence, and sexuality in attempt to be ‘edgy’ in it’s style and texture. More interestingly is how morality is depicted through the […]

Chronicle and Fruitvale Station star Michael B. Jordan is certainly popular these days; over the past couple of months he’s been linked to the role of Johnny Storm in The Fantastic Four and Apollo Creed’s grandson in the Rocky spin-off Creed, and now we can add another film to that list with The Wrap reporting […]

Earlier this week David S. Goyer was in London for BAFTA and BFI’s latest Screenwriting Lecture, during which he discussed the controversial ending to Man of Steel [read what he had to say here], while the Associated Press also caught up with him and managed to get an update on the status of 2015’s eagerly […]

Anthony Stokes on what Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. got wrong….When Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. was announced last summer I thought it was the dumbest idea ever, then I remembered… it’s Joss Whedon. Surely there had to be something of value here. As the premiere date drew closer I looked at the ads and promotions and thought […]

Helen Murdoch with a selection of movies to cure the winter flu blues… It’s that time of year again where everyone in the office is coughing and spluttering, you start work in the dark and leave in the dark and you can’t remember the last time you could breathe normally. Having recently been hit in […]

Despite claiming that he was set to retire from filmmaking with Clerks III, filmmaker Kevin Smith has decided to add another movie to his CV before he reunites with Dante and Randall, returning to the horror genre for the “monster movie” Tusk. Speaking to EW Smith has confirmed that Justin Long (Jeepers Creepers, Drag Me […]

Anghus Houvouras reviews the third issue of Jupiter’s Legacy…“The heroes conspire to overthrow The Utopian, discontent rumbling in the bars and the clubs where the superheroes get wasted and complain how much he’s been holding them all back with his old-fashioned ideas of power and responsibility. There’s a new world out there if they will […]

Every Wednesday, FM writers Simon Columb and Brogan Morris write two short reviews on Woody Allen films … in the hope of watching all his films over the course of roughly 49 weeks. If you have been watching Woody’s films and want to join in, feel free to comment with short reviews yourself! Next up […]

Back in August it was rumoured that Warner Bros. was mulling over a potential Batman spin-off series based around the exploits of the Gotham City Police Department, and now Deadline has revealed that Fox has landed the rights to the show, which is being developed by Bruno Heller (The Mentalist).According to the site, Gotham “explores […]