Yesterday brought us the huge news that Sony and Marvel have reached a deal regarding Spider-Man, which allows Marvel Studios to bring the character into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, whilst launching a new series of movies at Sony, produced by Kevin Feige. Variety has been digging into the specifics of the deal, revealing that Disney […]
Why Original Science Fiction is Dead
Anthony Stokes on the death of original science fiction… Jupiter Ascending has arrived and is pretty much been the bust we all thought it would be. Needless to say I doubt it will even come close to breaking even, and I’m not shedding a single tear for the Wachowski siblings who should have learned better […]
Comic Book Review – Southern Bastards #7
Zeb Larson reviews Southern Bastards #7… As a kid, Euless Boss had football in his blood. But all football ever did for him was make him bleed. Until the day he met a strange man who would change his life and the fate of Craw County forever. Southern Bastards has done the impossible: I’m actually […]
Marvel sets the Warzone! on fire with Inferno #1
As part of its Secret Wars event this coming May, Marvel is revising the 1989 crossover Inferno as the classic X-Men story sets the Warzone on fire with a brand new series from writer Dennis Hopeless (Spider-Woman) and artist Javier Garron (Cyclops). “[Colossus] lost his sister to the Inferno five years ago and is absolutely […]
Hugh Jackman on the chances of Wolverine joining Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Late last night, Spider-Man fans got the news they’ve been waiting for with the announcement Sony and Marvel Studios have reached an agreement that will see the web-slinger swinging into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Pre-Sony hack, it was a move that no one saw coming, and will of course allow Spider-Man to share the screen […]
The Wachowskis think Jupiter Ascending could mark the end of their studio financing
With a hugely underwhelming opening weekend in the US of just $19 million, Jupiter Ascending is another in a long line of films from the Wachowski siblings where the box-office has failed to match the grand, epic-scale ideas of their films. Their previous two films, Cloud Atlas and Speed Racer, both flopped on release, with […]
Take a look back at the cinematic evolution of Batman
The most enduring superhero of them all in cinema terms is The Dark Knight, with over ten screen interpretations of the Batman character since his comic book debut in May 1939. Today, an 11-minute video has surfaced which brings together all of those different versions of the character in a wonderful retrospective look, which includes […]
Gotham Season 1 Episode 15 Review – ‘The Scarecrow’
Martin Carr reviews the fifteenth episode of Gotham… It occurs to me that I may have been a little harsh on Julian Sands. For whatever reason I failed to buy into his portrayal of Dr Gerald Crane, feeling that there was no inherent threat, fear or sense of foreboding. In ‘The Scarecrow’ the metaphorical penny […]
Man of Steel’s Christina Wren returning as Carrie Farris in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
It looks like we can add another returning player from Man of Steel to the cast of next year’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, with Christina Wren – who played the United States Air Force officer Carrie Farris – revealing to Pittsburgh Magazine that she’ll be back in the hotly-anticipated DC ensemble. “The casting […]
Halloween “recalibration” coming from Saw writers
With many of horror’s classic big-bads being rejuvenated and renewed many times over, it seems that one of the genre’s biggest figures, Michael Myers, is set to return in a new film from Dimension Films. The Hollywood Reporter is today reporting that a new chapter of the Halloween franchise is set to go before the […]
