Blood, 2012. Directed by Nick MurphyStarring Paul Bettany, Stephen Graham, Mark Strong and Brian Cox. SYNOPSIS: A psychological thriller charting the disintegration of a police family as two brothers living in the shadow of their father investigate the murder of a young girl… Supernatural noir is not usually something you would associate with the UK […]
Comic Book Review – Age of Ultron #7
Robb Ghag reviews Age of Ultron #7… “In an attempt to defeat Ultron two Marvel Heroes take it upon themselves to create an all-new Marvel Universe. But is the one they have created better or worse than the one they left behind? The event of the year just got INSANE!!” This book is finally finding […]
News on future Marvel movies – including Robert Downey Jr.’s status
One of the big stories coming out of Iron Man 3 has been Robert Downey Jr.’s contract coming to an end with Marvel Studios. With the third outing for Tony Stark smashing box office records in the UK and US, it’s surely likely that Marvel would want to bring Downey back for another solo Iron […]
Comic Book Review – Mega Man #25
Luke Owen reviews Mega Man #25, the fourth part of Archie Comic’s Worlds Collide series… It’s Sonic versus Mega Man – Round Two! Celebrate 25 issues of Mega Man with the throwdown brawl to end all throwdown brawls! The Blue Bomber has the home field advantage this time – can Sonic keep up in this […]
The Apprentice Series 9 – Episode 1 Review
Luke Owen looks as the first episode of a new series of The Apprentice… It’s that time again. For the next 12 weeks, 16 deluded business people will make utter tits of themselves for our entertainment in an effort to win a £250,000 investment from the Finger Point of Doom, Lord Sugar. I do love […]
Comic Book Review – The Walking Dead #110
Villordsutch reviews The Walking Dead #110…. “Ezekiel vs. Michonne?“ I have to be honest here – I’ve never read a Walking Dead comic book. I tried (once) in the local library but I had no clue what was going on or who a lot of the characters where. I have however followed all of the […]
Luke Evans discusses The Crow remake
Earlier this week Relativity Media finally found its leading man for the long-gestating remake of The Crow when Luke Evans (Immortals, Fast & Furious 6) was announced as having secured the role of Eric Draven in the latest retelling of comic book creator James O’Barr’s supernatural revenge tale. Evans secured the role ahead of rumoured […]
Shane Black to direct Doc Savage
With his latest film raking in the cash worldwide, Shane Black has wasted little time lining up his next project, with the Iron Man 3 director set to swap the comic book superhero Tony Stark for the pulp adventurer Doc Savage. We’ve known for a while that Black was developing a script for the project, […]
Sundance London 2013 Review – Upstream Colour (2013)
Upstream Colour, 2013. Directed by Shane Carruth.Starring Shane Carruth, Amy Seimetz and Andrew Sensenig. SYNOPSIS: It’s about, um…the loss of identiy and, er…substance addiction and pig farming and sound recording and astral planes and an interconnectedness of humanity beyond anything you could ever imagine and…and…anything you want it to be! . Shane Carruth made Primer back in […]
Terry Gilliam Retrospective Part 10: Inside the Imaginarium
Paul Risker continues his Terry Gilliam Retrospective… American director John Huston once remarked, “The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on and one day you die. That […]