In this edition of The Week in Star Wars, Gareth Edwards has been talking about the original Rogue One ending, Frank Oz has seemingly let slip Yoda’s inclusion in The Last Jedi, and Dave Filoni has revealed that Darth Vader and Darth Maul were going to go head-to-head in Star Wars Rebels…With the home-entertainment release […]
Marvel’s Iron Fist: A Reasonable Response to a Very Reasonable Show
Samuel Brace on Marvel’s Iron Fist… Iron Fist is not good. That’s what you’ve been hearing in the build up to Netflix’s new Marvel series. You’ve been hearing that it is the first misfire from Marvel’s Netflix venture, a flop, a bag full of nothing good. Reviews have been indifferent to bad, its metacritic score […]
Six video game worlds that would likely smell terrible on the Nosulus Rift
Jordan Jones with six video game worlds that would likely smell terrible on the Nosulus Rift…If you haven’t heard, South Park: The Fractured But Whole is going to introduce a cutting-edge peripheral to market: the Nosulus Rift. What does this magical device do, you ask? The Nosulus Rift will allow players to actually smell the farts […]
Alicia Vikander to hunt monsters in Ben Wheatley’s Freakshift
With his latest film Free Fire currently earning rave reviews from critics ahead of its release at the end of this month [read our reviews here and here], British filmmaker Ben Wheatley is now prepping his next project Freakshift, and it looks like he may have found an Oscar-winning star for the lead.According to Deadline, […]
Ridley Scott says there will definitely be four more Alien movies after Covenant
Earlier this month, Ridley Scott revealed that he already has a script for another Alien movie to follow this year’s Alien: Covenant, and that we could get a further six movies in the franchise before he decides to call it a day.Although that sounded like hyperbole from Scott, the filmmaker has now revealed to Fandango […]
Groot will be a “better-written character” in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
It seems that Marvel was caught a little by surprise with the fan reaction to Groot in 2014’s Guardians of the Galaxy (which explains why it took so long for those Dancing Baby Groot toys to hit the shelves), and speaking to Comic Book, director James Gunn has revealed that his breakout popularity has ensured […]
Why We Don’t Need More Matrix Movies
This week, Neil Calloway argues against a return for The Matrix…So, we’re getting another load of Matrix films. Or we will be if Warner Bros get their way. It would be easy just to throw my hands up in the air and go “Oh, I’m sick of reboots, can’t we have something original?” but just […]
Rumour: The new Matrix movie could be a Morpheus prequel
Last week it was announced that Warner Bros. is rebooting The Matrix with a new movie based upon the classic sci-fi action series, with Michael B. Jordan wanted for the lead role.Writer Zak Penn subsequently took to Twitter to confirm that the new project is not a reboot of the property, and now Birth.Movies.Death is […]
Logan director James Mangold to helm The Force
Coming off the back of the hit Wolverine swansong Logan, Deadline is reporting that director James Mangold will reunite with 20th Century Fox for his next project, an adaptation of Don Winslow’s upcoming crime novel The Force.The site reports that the book “tells the story of a corrupt detective in the NYPD’s most elite crime-fighting […]
Movie Review – The Boss Baby (2017)
The Boss Baby, 2017.Directed by Tom McGrath. Featuring the voice talents of Alec Baldwin, Miles Christopher Bakshi, Steve Buscemi, Jimmy Kimmel, Lisa Kudrow, and Tobey Maguire.SYNOPSIS:A suit-wearing briefcase-carrying baby pairs up with his seven-year-old brother to stop the dastardly plot of the CEO of Puppy Co.The Boss Baby has an overactive imagination that is on […]
