2016 is going to be a stacked year for comic book movies with the release of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Captain America: Civil War, X-Men: Apocalypse and Suicide Squad. Also in that list is the smaller budget Deadpool, but one man who isn’t afraid of the competition is the Merc with the Mouth himself, Ryan […]
Power Man and Iron Fist returning to Marvel Comics
Luke Cage and Danny Rand are set to team up once again as the Heroes for Hire, with Marvel Comics announcing that a new ongoing series of Power Man and Iron Fist will get underway next year courtesy of the creative team of David Walker (Shaft) and Sanford Greene (Runaways, Uncanny Avengers). “I’ve loved these […]
George Miller gives his take on what he would have done with Man of Steel 2
It was rumoured for a while that Mad Max: Fury Road director George Miller was going to direct Man of Steel 2. Since then the director has announced he won’t be working with Henry Cavill, but that didn’t stop him talking about Superman and what he could have done with the character for Man of […]
Countdown to Spectre – On Her Majesty’s Secret Service Review
Ricky Church continues his countdown to Spectre with a review of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service… In 1967 audiences were introduced to their first James Bond that was not Sean Connery. In George Lazenby’s one and only Bond film, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, 007 is hot on the trail of Blofeld and closing in […]
Comic Book Review – Paper Girls #1
Zeb Larson reviews Paper Girls #1… All right Paper Girls, you managed to hook me on the first issue. Set in 1988 in suburban Cleveland, it is about four paper girls who stumble upon a very weird mystery. This book has a lot going for it: strong, sassy female leads, a science-fiction premise which resists […]
59th BFI London Film Festival Review – Brand: A Second Coming (2015)
Brand: A Second Coming, 2015 Directed by Ondi Timoner Starring Russell Brand SYNOPSIS: BRAND – A SECOND COMING follows comedian Russell Brand’s spiritual journey from addict and Hollywood star to self-proclaimed revolutionary and explores our relationship to the consumerism and individualism that drives our society and distracts us at a time when it’s vital for […]
Jason Segel co-writing but not directing LEGO movie The Billion Brick Race
After the massive success of last year’s The LEGO Movie, a franchise is being built: not only is there a sequel on the way, but we have many spin-offs on the horizon too, including one that is being co-written by Drew Pearce (Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation) and Jason Segel (The Muppets). Early word also […]
Arrow Season 4 Episode 1 Review – ‘Green Arrow’
Jessie Robertson reviews the first episode of Arrow season 4… Welcome back to Star(ling) City- actually re-named in honor of the dearly departed Ray Palmer (who may or may not have shrunken himself to the size of an Atom before he was blown up). I actually was more intrigued, I”ll say, for this premiere than the […]
Comic Book Review – Nailbiter #16
Zeb Larson reviews Nailbiter #16… Nailbiter is up to its old tricks, by which I mean that we have another issue of stalling on plot advancement, boring pseudo-revelations, and action that doesn’t add up to much of anything. The last issue actually went somewhere, which got me hoping that we would finally see some forward […]
59th BFI London Film Festival Opening Gala Review: Suffragette (2015)
Suffragette, 2015. Directed by Sarah Gavron. Starring Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne-Marie Duff, Brendan Gleeson, Ben Whishaw and Meryl Streep. SYNOPSIS: In 1913 London, a young laundress (Mulligan) is swept into the Women’s Vote movement just as it begins to boil into militant activism. Deliberately not a biopic of Emmeline Pankhurst or indeed of any of […]
