It’s a bird… It’s a plane… It’s… super good news! Ahead of the upfronts next week, CBS has officially granted a full series order to Supergirl. The series – developed by Arrow and The Flash producers Greg Berlanti and Andrew Kreisberg along with Chuck alum Ali Adler – was given a series commitment last fall, and has picked up quite a […]
Fixing Gotham: Make Jim Gordon Batman
Anghus Houvouras with a suggestion for fixing Gotham… Gotham has been the craziest kind of failed experiment. A show that was off the rails almost from the beginning. The show has been raked across the coals in its first season for being ‘Batman without Batman’, citing the show’s penchant for cramming in every Batman villain […]
Avengers: Age of Ultron comfortably retains top spot at the UK box office
UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 1st May to Sunday 3rd May 2015… Marvel’s superhero blockbuster Avengers: Age of Ultron has comfortably retained top spot at the UK box office, fending off all challengers with a whopping $8.6 million second weekend, giving it £32.3 million to date. The film […]
Movie Review – Honeytrap (2014)
Honeytrap, 2014. Directed by Rebecca Johnson. Starring Jessica Sula, Lucien Laviscount, Ntonga Mwanza, and Naomi Ryan. SYNOPSIS: Layla, a naive teenager from Trindad, moves to Brixton, London to live with her emotionally distant mother. Layla gets sucked into local gang activity trying to impress those around her. Honeytrap is an engaging film based on a […]
The Flash Season 1 Episode 21 Review – ‘Grodd Lives’
Jessie Robertson reviews the twenty-first episode of The Flash… The great thing about The Flash series (besides his rich and deep history as a character) is his vast Rogues Gallery. One of the most colorful, and frightening and iconic of those villains is Gorilla Grodd (now just Grodd on the show) Comics-wise, he’s a powerful […]
Joss Whedon discusses Loki’s deleted scene from Avengers: Age of Ultron
Last week Joss Whedon discussed his decision to leave Tom Hiddleston’s scene as Loki in Avengers: Age of Ultron on the cutting room floor, and now the director has spoken a little about the God of Mischief’s cameo and what it entailed during an interview with Empire. “[Loki’s] so important to the mythos, and they’re […]
Video Game Review – Zen Pinball 2 Star Wars Pinball: Star Wars Rebels
Andrew Newton reviews Zen Pinball 2 Star Wars Pinball: Star Wars Rebels… For those of you who don’t know, Star Wars: Rebels is an animated adventure set in the Star Wars universe. The series centres around a rag-tag crew of the Starship Ghost as they continue the fight against the evil Empire. The recent table […]
Sony renews Powers for a second season
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Sony’s Powers adaptation – which aired exclusively on the PlayStation Network – has been renewed for a second season. Sony’s VP of Platforms Marketing, John Koller, had this to say about the renewal: “The reception of Powers has been incredible, and we are thrilled to have successfully launched a platform for original content with […]
Justice League: Gods and Monsters Chronicles gets a second season
Next month sees the arrival of Justice League: Gods and Monsters Chronicles, an online webseries based upon Bruce Timm’s upcoming DC Universe Animated Original Movie Justice League: Gods and Monsters, and it seems that Warner Bros. and Machinima are confident that they’ve got a hit on their hands, as a second season has just been […]
Blu-ray Review – Black Eagle (1988)
Black Eagle, 1988. Directed by Eric Karson. Starring Shô Kosugi, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Doran Clark, Bruce French, Gene Davis and Vladimir Skomarovsky. SYNOPSIS: A top CIA agent investigates a US military plane that has crashed somewhere over Europe but comes face to face with Soviet agents operating in the area. Much like the 1986 The […]
