Academy Award-winning screenwriter Roger Avary (Pulp Fiction, Silent Hill) is to write and direct an adaptation of the World War II video game series Castle Wolfenstein. According to Deadline, the project is envisioned as “in the vein of Captain America and Inglourious Basterds [and is] about a young U.S. Army Captain and a British Special […]

October 30th, 2012 will be a day long remembered for Star Wars fans, with The Walt Disney Company purchasing Lucasfilm for $4 billion, and announcing plans to continue the epic space opera with Star Wars Episode VII – the first instalment of a new trilogy set to begin in 2015. Naturally, there’s been an absolute […]

Well, here’s a shock… despite reports last month that Sony Pictures Entertainment had given director Ivan Reitman the green light to shoot Ghostbusters III next summer, The Hollywood Reporter has now revealed that “any decision on Ghostbusters III, the long, long-gestating sequel, has been postponed until the end of March [2013] — this after Men […]

Luke Graham reviews the latest 2000 AD prog… A lot gets revealed and explained in Prog 1810, as well as setting up the explosive next act of the Mega-City One cross-over The Cold Deck. Judge Dredd: The Cold Deck, part five Script: Al Ewing, Art: Henry Flint Things take a dramatic step forward as Judge […]

Luke Owen on the possibilities for Star Wars and other Lucas-related properties following Disney’s acquisition of Lucasfilm… Last night while watching Arsenal getting battered three-nil by Reading, I went on to Twitter to gloat that my hometown team were beating a team that should be playing better (they eventually went on to lose in a […]

Luke Graham reviews the latest 2000 AD prog… Another week, another Zarjaz new issue of sci-fi anthology 2000AD. It’s a strong issue with some great moments. Prog 1800 was the magazine’s yearly new reader drive, with five strips that were either one-shots or the start of new series. Now, with prog 1806, the magazine has […]

Piers McCarthy reviews the second episode of The Walking Dead season 3… The five watchful eyes of the shadowy prisoners may be a concern of the audience’s but for not for Rick and those trying to help out the wounded Hershel. Daryl carefully targets the unknown bunch but only for the brief moments Rick and […]

Commenting on the Critics with Simon Columb… Kieran Turner-Dave writes for The Independent blog regarding the use of filesharing and, interestingly, how many filesharers – despite breaking the law – actually spend 30% more than an average film viewer on legal products as they have such an interest in the medium. He notes how, on […]

When rumours of potential directors for Star Wars Episode VII first began to swirl around the internet, a surpise candidate among the usual Hollywood A-listers was that of Colin Trevorrow, the man behind the indie comedy Safety Not Guaranteed. However, Trevorrow subsequently denied that he was attached to the next instalment of the Star Wars […]

Luke Owen counts down to Halloween by reviewing horror movies from the last 60 years; next up is The Faculty (1998)… As we roll into the 90s, horror cinema morphed into a different kind of beast. The 80s was full of ‘stalk and slash’ horror movies but by the tail end of the early 90s, […]