Renowned American film critic Roger Ebert has passed away today aged 70 after a long battle with cancer. Ebert, who rose to prominence through his long-running TV partnership with fellow film critic Gene Siskel, was the first film critic to receive a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, […]

Scott Furnell-Calvert reviews Batman: Detective Comics Vol. 1: Faces of Death… “As a part of the acclaimed DC Comics – The New 52 event, DETECTIVE COMICS is relaunched for the first time! Bruce Wayne returns as Batman – and sets his sights on the Gotham Ripper, who in turn has his sights on Batman. Meanwhile, […]

We already know that Hans Zimmer is set to swap the world of DC superheroes for Marvel next year as The Dark Knight Trilogy and Man of Steel composer provides the score for Sony’s Marc Webb-directed sequel The Amazing Spider-Man 2, but it seems he’ll also have a collaborator in Pharrell Williams, with the singer […]

As J.J. Abrams prepares to take us ‘Into Darkness’ with his eagerly-anticipated Star Trek sequel, the filmmaker spoken to SFX Magazine about the upcoming film, as well as discussing the comparisons between his 2009 reboot and George Lucas’ epic space opera Star Wars – which of course Abrams himself is set to resurrect with Disney’s […]

Matt Smith reviews the latest episode of Elementary…Sherlock Holmes, in many of his forms and certainly all his recent ones, is displayed as quite a cold character. Untrusting to a degree that even if people he knew were guilty of a crime, Sherlock would barely bat an eyelid. As Gregory House says: ‘Everybody lies.’ Trust […]

Anghus Houvouras reviews The Superior Spider-Man #7…“An Avenger no more? With the public at large realizing this is no longer a ‘Friendly Neighborhood’ Spider-Man, and in light of his actions in recent events, will the Avengers kick Spidey off the team? Plus the return of Cardiac! And a new development for a Spider-Man who hasn’t […]

Matt Smith reviews the latest episode of The Following….So, over the last couple weeks I’ve done a lot. And by ‘a lot’, I mean, ‘not much’. I’ve sat in front of the TV watching various TV shows, films and the like, some of the time frankly demolishing Easter-themed chocolate. There were foil and chocolate wrappers […]

Cowabunga dudes!It’s been a rough time for fans of the Heroes in a Half-Shell recently. Michael Bay’s reboot was met with tepid reactions and the leaked script featuring “Colonel Schrader” did nothing to help. But good things are happening in the Nickelodeon cartoon TMNT and executive producer Ciro Nieli has talked about bringing back Baxter […]

Since it purchased Lucasfilm last year, Disney have made some pretty big changes in the Lucas landscape. Not only did they announce a new Star Wars trilogy and the move of Star Wars comics to Marvel, but today they announced that they are closing down fan favourite LucasArts as a development company to instead license […]

Kaiju fans certainly have plenty to look forward to over the next year and a half, with Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth) overseeing the giant robot vs. giant monster carnage of Pacific Rim this July, before the King of the Monsters himself Godzilla returns in next year’s Hollywood reboot from director Gareth Edwards (Monsters). With […]