Anghus Houvouras looks forward to ‘Phase Two’ of the Marvel Cinematic Universe… After a massively successful year, Marvel Studios rolled out details on their next slate of projects on Saturday, including much anticipated sequels to Iron Man, Thor and Captain America, as well as a couple of lesser known new film properties: Ant-Man and Guardians […]

Commenting on the critics with Simon Columb… Rebecca Keegan, for the Los Angeles Times, writes about the San Diego Comic-Con event itself… “Begun in 1970 as a small comic-book convention attended mainly by adult men, Comic-Con International is now a multimedia smorgasbord attracting more than 125,000 people annually — including throngs of women, toddlers, school […]

The Amazing Spider-Man (don’t forget the hyphen) came out a couple of weeks ago now and, like Prometheus, people are going a bit marmite over it. Here’s a few brief reviews from both sides of the crusty, yellow-capped pot to get you in the dialectic mood. They’re from the YouTube comments section to TASM’s trailer, […]

Luke Owen reviews the fifteenth season of South Park, which is released on Blu-ray and DVD in the UK today… It’s amazing to think that some little TV series I once stayed up late to watch air on Channel 4 in 1997 with terrible animation and crude-but-not-that-crude humour would not only be in its 15th […]

Commenting on the critics with Simon Columb… Patrick Goldstein for the LA Times writes about diversity within the Academy Awards: “[Will] Packer was one of 176 film industry luminaries who were invited today to become academy members. And even though most of the headlines will inevitably focus on such A-list talent as Terrence Malick, Jonah […]

It seems Christopher Nolan (Inception) is well and truly finished with the Batman franchise. Some are calling it the greatest trilogy of all time, and Nolan is more than intelligent enough to bow out at the top. In a foreward to a new book, The Art and Making of The Dark Knight Trilogy, Nolan has […]

Have you ever stopped to think about it? Perhaps 3D isn’t a medium. Perhaps it’s actually a genre; one with its own stylistics, conventions and tones. Where Film Noir exhibits the interplay between light and shadow, 3D makes things fly at your face. Funny or Die think as much in one of their latest skits: […]

Legendary Oscar-winning film producer Richard D. Zanuck has passed away after suffering a heart attack, aged 77. The son of former 20th Century Fox head and legendary producer Daryl F. Zanuck and actress Virginia Fox, Zanuck produced his first film Compulsion in 1959, before a stint as president of 20th Century Fox in the 1960s, […]

Simon Columb reviews Nitin Sawhney’s new soundtrack for the silent Alfred Hitchcock classic The Lodger… Nitin Sawhney has become a sought-after film composer through successful scores for Nike adverts and BBC’s Human Planet TV series. This summer, in conjunction with Network Releasing and the BFI, Sawhney has composed a new score for Alfred Hitchcock’s 1926 […]

Commenting on the critics with Simon Columb… Scott Mendelson, writer for The Huffington Post, writes the following: “Is Pixar as we know it finished? Has a fifteen-year run of uniformly fine cartoons given way to an act two filled with half-hearted misses and needless sequels? It’s a somewhat sensationalistic argument, but the timing is not […]