In the first of a new column ‘State of the Genre’ Martin Deer on why Warner Bros. should forget all about the Justice League movie… You may have heard this week that Warner Bros. is pushing ahead with its second attempt at a Justice League movie (for those unaware the Justice League is DC Comics […]

Tom Jolliffe mans up in preparation for The Expendables 2, taking in an overdose of explosive action cinema with ‘The Jean-Claude Van Damme Rampage’… The Muscles from Brussels left his native Belgium for the US with nothing but hopes, dreams and the ability to do the splits. He became an action icon with his breakout […]

Sony Pictures Animation has acquired the rights to the classic 80s American sitcom ALF and is set to develop a hybrid live-action / CG-animated feature film, with The Hollywood Reporter revealing that producer Jordan Kerner – who recently scored a huge hit with The Smurfs – has been assigned to oversee the project. Kerner will […]

Jake Peffer reviews the pilot episode of Matthew Perry’s new sitcom Go On… Since Friends ended in 2004, Matthew Perry hasn’t had the best of careers. The few movies he’s been in have been forgettable, his ABC show Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip was cancelled after one season and his FOX show Mr. Sunshine […]

As the James Bond movie franchise celebrates its 50th anniversary with the release of Skyfall later this year, The Hollywood Reporter has announced that British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen has signed a deal with Paramount Pictures to develop an as-yet-untitled comedy project centred around “a James Bond-like spy who ‘is forced to go on the […]

This month’s Sight and Sound dropped through my letterbox Saturday morning, and in it contained their once-a-decade Top 10 Films of All Time, as voted for by critics and filmmakers. If you’ve been living as a recluse in your own personal Xanadu, Orson Welles, who’s been number one for the past half century, got Citizen […]

Commenting on the Critics with Simon Columb… Fans of the Ghostbusters films will be happy to know that (a) they are moving ahead with a sequel but (b) Bill Murray won’t be in it. The Telegraph covered the story from an interview Aykroyd gave to Metro… The new writer is Etan Cohen, who co-wrote Men […]

Luke Owen presents a brief history of the cult production and distribution company Troma Entertainment… It’s a name that is synonymous among B-Movie horror fans with movies that more often than not fall into the “so bad they’re good” category. Since their inception in 1974, Troma Entertainment’s surreal look at cinema has led them to […]

This month’s Sight and Sound dropped through my letterbox this morning, and in it contained their once-a-decade Top 10 Films of All Time, as voted for by critics and filmmakers. If you’ve been living as a recluse in your own personal Xanadu, Orson Welles, who’s been number one for the past half century, got Citizen […]

There’s been another twist in the long-running saga of Ron Howard and Brian Glazer’s proposed adaptation of Stephen King’s magnum opus The Dark Tower today with the news that Warner Bros. are likely to make a decision within the next two weeks about whether to proceed with the first instalment of what could potentially become […]