In news that should come as no surprise whatsoever to anyone familiar with the box-office figures for Marvel’s The Avengers, Warner Bros. are said to be pressing ahead with plans for their own team-up, The Justice League, with screenwriter Will Beall (Gangster Squad) busy developing a script to bring DC’s stable of superheroes together on […]

Oliver Davis reviews the tenth episode of Game of Thrones Season Two… Valar Morghulis. Directed by Alan Taylor. Written by David Benioff & D.B. Weiss. Last week’s episode is a tough act to follow, almost entirely comprised of swords, blood and battle. HBO presumably let this one run 65 minute to compensate. Seven hells, you […]

Jake Wardle presents his top ten movie monarchs… As some of you might possibly have gathered, this weekend sees the mandatory celebration of all things Royal, as her Maj Queen Elizabeth II makes it 60 years of waving and feigning interest in the activities of provincial townspeople. What better way, then, to celebrate this milestone […]

Luke Owen on last night’s final episode of The Apprentice 2012… If I may, let me take you back to week one of this process when I typed, “if this contest was based on great quotes, the show would already be over with Ricky’s ‘I am the reflection of perfection’.” Well this wasn’t a show […]

You Only Live Once, 1937. Directed by Fritz Lang. Written by Gene Towne and C. Graham Baker. Starring Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda and Barton MacLane. SYNOPSIS: A recently released criminal is determined to go straight and marry the woman he loves. Circumstance says otherwise. StudioCanal are releasing Fritz Lang’s second American film on DVD June […]

Luke Owen on last night’s episode of The Apprentice 2012… After 11 weeks of “fish out of water” antics and slight sexism, market stall salesman Adam has taken the taxi ride of shame back to the North of England. I think it’s been a long time coming for poor Adam. From day 1 it seemed […]

Prometheus, 2012. Directed by Ridley Scott. Starring Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Idris Elba and Charlize Theron. Is that Apocalypse Now-era Marlon Brando in the background? SYNOPSIS: The crew of the spaceship Prometheus investigate signs of life on a faraway planet. Prometheus was the name of the titan who stole fire from the Gods. Prometheus is the […]

As he prepares to join fellow action icon Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Tomb, Sylvester Stallone has taken a moment to discuss the state of the action genre with Entertainment Tonight, and more specifically, the impact of the superhero movie on this once-glorious section of cinema: “[The action] genre unfortunately is becoming… let’s just say it’s […]

Oliver Davis reviews the ninth episode of Game of Thrones Season Two… Blackwater. Directed by Neil Marshall. Written by George R.R. Martin. As predicted last week, Blackwater was centred entirely on the Battle of Blackwater Bay, a significant event near the end of Clash of Kings. And Game of Thrones brought its A-game, with director […]

Shake Hands with the Devil, 1959. Directed by Michael Anderson. Starring James Cagney, Don Murray, Dana Wynter, Glynis Johns and Michael Redgrave. SYNOPSIS: In 1920s Dublin, a young medical student is sucked into the world of the IRA and becomes embroiled in a series of plots against the occupying British forces. No first sentence tricks […]