Pokemon fever is gripping the globe thanks to the latest iteration, Pokemon Go, and it’s even reached as far as Springfield! Yes, Homer Simpson has fallen victim to the game, neglecting his parental duties during a family trip to the zoo as he tries to catch them all in a new Simpsons short released by […]
Star Trek 4: Will the two Chris’ equal double the box office?
Tony Black on the addition of Chris Hemsworth’s George Kirk in Star Trek 4… It’s been quite the week for Star Trek news, and it’s only Monday! With the looming arrival of Star Trek Beyond getting (much to my delight) very positive initial critical buzz, we’ve not only found out the new Bryan Fuller series […]
Netflix announces new episodes of Making a Murderer
Some great news for fans of Netflix’s acclaimed documentary series Making a Murderer, as the streaming service has announced that directors and executive producers Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos are in production on new episodes of the Emmy Award-nominated show. The new instalments will take fans back inside the story of convicted murderer Steven Avery, […]
Wayward Pines Season 2 Episode 8 Review – ‘Pass Judgement’
Martin Carr reviews the eighth episode of Wayward Pines season 2… This is a continuation of last week’s powder keg episode where Abbies had congregated outside the fence by the thousand. Inside remained a hot bed of in-fighting, finger pointing and slanderous exchanges. What episode eight gives us is more of the same except this […]
Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future getting the reboot treatment with Phoenix Rising
Deadline is reporting that the 80s sci-fi series Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future is getting a reboot entitled Phoenix Rising, which is being developed by original co-creator Gary Goddard and former Syfy executives Thomas Vitale and Craig Engler. The original series blended live-action and early CGI and took place on Earth in […]
Scream Season 2 Episode 7 Review – ‘Let The Right One In’
Martin Carr reviews the seventh episode of Scream: The TV Series season 2… Unlike other shows Scream is a good old fashioned pastiche to its very marrow. There are no genre boundaries being traversed, no wild revelations or people trying too hard in the drama department. This is just predictable slaughter on a weekly basis […]
J.J. Abrams would like to see a Knights of Ren Star Wars Anthology movie
As Lucasfilm gears up to expand the Star Wars franchise with its first Anthology movie Rogue One: A Star Wars Story this December, Collider asked Star Wars: The Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams which spinoff movie he’d like to see in the future. “I gotta say Kathy Kennedy, who’s running it all, she seems to […]
Mark Rylance praises Christopher Nolan’s “pure war film” Dunkirk
Fan favourite filmmaker Christopher Nolan is currently hard at work on production of Dunkirk, a World War II epic which chronicles Operation Dynamo – the 1940 evacuation of 330,000 Allied soldiers surrounded by advancing German forces on the beaches of Dunkirk. During an appearance on the Empire Podcast (via Collider), Oscar-winning Mark Rylance has offered some […]
Sony executive has “no doubt” that we’ll see a Ghostbusters sequel
Well, it wasn’t quite the unmitigated disaster many were predicting, with Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters reboot opening to a decent enough $46 million in its domestic opening weekend (albeit in second place behind The Secret Life of Pets). International takings from a few major markets including the UK and Australia weren’t too strong though, adding just […]
The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #40 – Highway Encounter
Though it’s sad to turn off Fantasy World Dizzy we must go forwards into the Your Sinclair Top 100 and our next entry at No.#40 is luckily a rather original game, which on initial appearance looks like it contains a rather drunk Dalek! Up slides Highway Encounter from Vortex Software and it’s a good one. […]
