Kirsty Capes reviews the first episode of Downton Abbey season 3… Downton is back in the States with a third series and a special two hour episode to get things underway. After the climactic end to the second series, fans have been itching to see what comes next for the Crawleys and company since the […]

Among the many projects George Lucas had with the Star Wars franchise, there was one that had been rumoured for many years – the live action TV series. Much like the Star Wars comic books, it should come as no surprise that since Disney purchased the series from Lucasfilm, ABC are now returning to this […]

Anghus Houvouras reviews the first issue of The Superior Spider-Man… “THEN!… Peter Parker spent a lifetime living up to the responsibilities his powers foisted upon him but his Amazing story finally ended dramatically in the historic Spider-Man #700. NOW!…The new Amazing Spider-Man has arrived and he is better in every single way. Smarter, stronger…Superior.“ Spoilers […]

Luke Owen reviews the latest issue of Transformers: Robots in Disguise… “ON THE PROWL! It’s “no more mister nice guy,” as CYBERTRON burns and one AUTOBOT is all that stand between order and anarchy. Meet the new PROWL—deadlier than ever, colder than any other AUTOBOT, and ready to end the DECEPTICON threat—forever.” I came under […]

Luke Owen reviews the second issue of IDW’s January Mars Attacks series… “In 1970s New York, four teens are handed the power to become godlike figures… unless some attacking Martians find a way to steal that power for themselves! A tale torn from the original 1976 Kiss comic, courtesy of Chris “God of Thunder” Ryall […]

After his breakthrough success with last year’s found footage hit Chroncile, director Josh Trank has now turned his attention to Marvel’s First Family for 20th Century Fox’s Fantastic Four, which is due to arrive on screens in 2015, and speaking to SciFiNow, Fox’s Marvel creative consultant Mark Millar (Wanted, Kick-Ass) has taken a moment to […]

New Line Cinema is pushing ahead with the big screen adaptation of the cult classic comic book series Y: The Last Man. According to Deadline, Dan Trachtenberg is set to direct the film, after generating his own buzz in a creative way in 2011 by creating an online trailer for a faux movie based on […]

Paul Risker discusses the third season of the hit Danish crime drama The Killing… During the latter part of last year, the end seemed to arrive a little sooner than what I was accustomed to. Two foreign crime dramas which had become an integral part of BBC Four’s Saturday evening foreign crime line-up concluded in […]

We’ve known for a while that Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to reprise the role of Robert E. Howard’s Cimmerian warrior Conan the Barbarian for The Legend of Conan, but it seems that the proposed sequel to the 1982 original may not be the only time we’ll see Arnie returning to the world of Hyboria. According to […]

After a supporting role in last year’s action ensemble The Expendables 2, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s screen comeback steps up a gear this month with the release of Kim Jee-Woon’s The Last Stand. The action icon has several original projects on his upcoming slate (including The Tomb and Ten), after which he’s due to head back to […]