Commenting on the Critics with Simon Columb… Neal Gabler, for The LA Times, writes about how the Star Wars and Marvel deals from Disney says much more about the industry… “It used to be that the movie created the brand, which is exactly how George Lucas built his empire. Now the brand creates the movie. […]

Helen Murdoch presents her five essential war films… With our poppies pinned firmly to our coats, it’s the time of year where we remember the lives lost through war. War has always gripped cinema goers, whether through battle scenes or emotional tales of adversity and so on. It is a diverse genre that has created […]

Piers McCarthy reviews the fourth episode of The Walking Dead season three… In many cases there will be one seminal season of a television show. For all the episodes that constitute the label “best ever season”, there is usually one in amongst them all that is pivotal. It may be too early to say but […]

The first image of Tom Cruise in director Doug Liman’s (The Bourne Identity, Mr. & Mrs. Smith) sci fi actioner All You Need is Kill has arrived online, showing a mech-suit clad Cruiser running away from an explosion. With clunky armor like that, it’s no wonder Cruise’s future soldier is going to find himself killed over and over […]

From the moment that Disney announced it was set to develop a new Star Wars trilogy, the internet has been rife with speculation as to potential directors for Star Wars Episode VII. While it seems we’re no closer to learning who will succeed George Lucas in the director’s chair for the next instalment of the […]

Luke Owen takes in a Halloween movie marathon… With 3 of our last 4 marathons being centred around horror movies, you’d think we’d move onto something else. But, with October being the month of Halloween (and a good way to end of my countdown special), it felt only right to tackle “The Shape” and his […]

Having enjoyed enormous success with its acquisitions of Pixar Animation Studios and Marvel Entertainment, The Walt Disney Company has now reached an agreement to purchase Lucasfilm Ltd. from founder George Lucas in a $4 billion deal that will see the Mouse House acquiring Lucasfilm and its subsidiary companies, including LucasArts, Industrial Light & Magic and […]

david j. moore chats with director John Hyams about the new action sequel Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning, as well as working with his father Peter Hyams, action stars Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren and Scott Adkins, and his previous films Universal Soldier: Regeneration and Dragon Eyes… The Universal Soldier franchise soldiers on with the […]

Luke Owen counts down to Halloween by reviewing horror movies from the last 60 years; next up is Attack the Block (2011)… We finish our countdown to Halloween in the current decade in which we live with a movie that I absolutely adore – Joe Cornish’s Attack The Block. Being a fan of Channel 4’s […]

Luke Owen counts down to Halloween by reviewing horror movies from the last 60 years; next up is The Mist (2007)… How I came into ownership of the DVD of The Mist is kind of a mystery. I remember buying it from my local ASDA but I don’t really remember why. In more recent months […]