Jake Peffer ranks the six installments of Fast & Furious franchise…. Since beginning in 2001, The Fast and the Furious franchise has become one of the most successful movie series of the past decade, combining cool cars with incredible action set pieces and likable characters. The franchise has changed somewhat over the years, going from […]

Tom Jolliffe mans up in preparation for The Expendables 2, taking in an overdose of explosive action cinema with ‘The Jason Statham Rampage’… The Stath broke onto the big screen scene following a Guy Ritchie double smash of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels then Snatch. The former Olympic diver, swimwear model and wheeler dealer […]

Prisoners of War – Series 1 (a.k.a. Hatufim), 2010. Created by Gideon Raff. Starring Ishai Golan, Yoram Toledano, Yaël Abecassis, Mili Avital, Assi Cohen and Adi Ezroni. SYNOPSIS: After seventeen years, three prisoners of war are returned back to their homes and families. One of the prisoners returns home in a coffin whilst the other […]

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: […]