Piers McCarthy reviews the twelfth episode of The Walking Dead season 3…. Often in assessing The Walking Dead I forget about the scale of the show; mostly I look at the writing and the direction, but rarely the design and set-pieces. Watching episode 12 was wonderfully eye-opening for immediately drawing my attention what I usually […]

A couple of weeks back Sam Raimi admitted he was yet to watch last year’s superhero reboot The Amazing Spider-Man, as he “didn’t want to go to his girlfriend’s wedding.” Well, it seems that the original Spider-Man trilogy director has since had a change of heart, with Raimi telling HeyUGuys that he’s finally caught up […]

Anghus Houvouras on the death of the action film… The action film is practically dead. Languishing, comatose, and inching ever closer to the grave. The once proud genre was a mainstay of the movies ever since the words ‘motion’ was paired with ‘picture’. It was the action film that spoke to the common man, teaching […]

With Oz The Great and Powerful hitting cinemas today (read our review here), Variety are reporting that Disney are planning on returning to the world again for a sequel with Mitchell Kapner (who wrote the first film) hired to start work. The movie is looking to make around $80 million this weekend State side so […]

Robb Ghag reviews Detective Comics #18… Following the aftermath of Death of the Family and Batman: Incorporated #8, we enter the Batman’s new chapter called “Requiem”. The fallout from Death of the Family has left Batman again the lone vigilante of justice. It’s been some time since I read a Batman story where one of […]

What makes the Wizard of Oz so great and powerful? Scott Davis reports from the Oz the Great and Powerful press conference, held in London last week…. Tomorrow across the UK sees the long-awaited released of Sam Raimi’s Wizard of Oz prequel, Oz the Great and Powerful. Last week saw the UK premiere of the […]

Piers McCarthy reviews the eleventh episode of The Walking Dead season 3… As always: major spoilers ahead. “You’re slipping, Rick. We’ve all seen it” growls Hershel at the start of episode 12. And he’s damn right, too – our hero’s mind is torn and he’s losing respect all round. Carl offers some guidance about relaxing […]

Anghus Houvouras reviews the latest issue of The Superior Spider-Man… “How many have to die before the Superior Spider-Man will kill a super villain? Spider-Man versus Massacre – with hundreds of lives in the balance.“ The real draw of Superior Spider-Man is seeing what someone else would do if presented with the challenges that plague […]

Matt Smith reviews the latest episode of Elementary… As with any new interpretation of Sherlock Holmes, you eventually come across the new interpretation of Moriarty. The ads promised either an exercise in stupidity or inspired casting with the introduction of… Vinnie Jones, from The Mean Machine and that X-Men threequel in which his character paid […]

Anghus Houvouras reviews the latest issue of Marvel NOW!’s Avengers… “The Avengers must scramble to deal with the threat of another Universal System. The New Adam is transformed, and his true self revealed. ? And the most dangerous hero on Earth is created.” Jonathan Hickman has delivered the most entertaining run on The Avengers since […]