Danny Hale reviews the fifth episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 5… ‘Rewind’ brought more than one familiar face back into the mix, allowed us to finally touch base with Fitz and revealed some of the present day consequences of the events of last season, the Daisy LMD’s attempted assassination of General Talbot for […]
Star Wars: The Last Jedi Isn’t As Good Or Bad As You Think It Is
Neil Calloway tries to find middle ground with the latest Star Wars film… Warning: contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Last Jedi. It’s been over a week, you’ve had time to go through the stages of grief and finally come to acceptance that The Last Jedi is a fairly decent film, or if you won’t […]
Ant-Man and the Wasp director talks Scott Lang, Hope Van Dyne, Hank Pym and Janet Van Dyne
In the latest issue of Empire Magazine, director Peyton Reed has been chatting about the upcoming Marvel sequel Ant-Man and the Wasp, during which he shared a few comments about the film’s four main characters – Scott Lang (Paul Rudd), Hope Van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly), Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) and Janet Van Dyne (Michelle Pfeiifer). […]
Review – Doctor Who Christmas Special – ‘Twice Upon a Time’
Villordsutch reviews Doctor Who – Twice Upon a Time … Here it is, an ending and a new beginning. The Cloister Bell is chiming in the Doctor Who Christmas Special 2017 for both Peter Capaldi and Steven Moffat, as both gentlemen have served their time in the TARDIS and now comes a change. For Doctor […]
New Cleopatra movie will be a “dirty, bloody” political thriller filled with sex, swearing and assassinations
Back in September it was announced that Blade Runner 2049 helmer Denis Villeneuve is in talks to direct a new version of Cleopatra, and during an interview with THR, screenwriter David Scarpa (All the Money in the World) has been chatting about the project, describing it as a “lean, mean political thriller” filled with sex, […]
Video Game Review – Accounting+
Shaun Munro reviews Accounting+… With PSVR generally still leaving owners wanting for a respectable collection of “mature” games and experiences, the new beefed-up version of Accounting, which initially released for HTC Vive last year, provides brief and disarmingly demented relief, yet feels mis-priced and mis-marketed as an actual game rather than a mere experience. The barmy […]
Comic Book Review – Dark Nights: Metal #4
Ricky Church reviews Dark Nights: Metal #4… DC’s miniseries Dark Nights: Metal returns with its fourth issue after a bit of a break with its several tie-in issues and one shots. Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo craft another good chapter in their crazy universe-spanning tale, focusing on Batman and Superman together as they seek answers to defeating […]
Can we all just admit the Golden Globes are kind of terrible?
Anghus Houvouras on the Golden Globe Awards… This headline feels redundant, as if it’s a deeply held belief by 88% of the civilized world. The other 12% are made up of the members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and people like my wife who enjoy watching the red carpet fashion on display no matter […]
Logan director James Mangold oversaw reshoots and post-production on The Greatest Showman
According to Variety, Hugh Jackman and 20th Century Fox enlisted the aid of The Wolverine and Logan director James Mangold to help oversee reshoots and post-production on the newly-released musical The Greatest Showman. The site reports that the studio became concerned that original director Michael Gracey – who was making his feature debut on the […]
Movie Review – The Greatest Showman (2017)
The Greatest Showman, 2017. Directed by Michael Gracey. Starring Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya, Michelle Williams, Paul Sparks, Keala Settle, Diahann Carroll, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Austyn Johnson, Cameron Seely, Sam Humphrey, Eric Anderson, and Natasha Liu Bordizzo. SYNOPSIS: Inspired by the imagination of P.T. Barnum, The Greatest Showman is an original musical that celebrates the […]