Former Man of Steel Brandon Routh (Superman Returns, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) is set to play yet another comic book character this year, as he’s joined the cast of Arrow as Ray Palmer, a.k.a. The Atom. In the comics, Palmer is a physicist who specializes in matter compression, and uses a mass of white dwarf star matter […]
Guardians of the Galaxy overtakes Thor: The Dark World to become Marvel’s fourth-highest grossing movie worldwide
Last weekend Guardians of the Galaxy overtook the domestic box office take of 2008’s Iron Man ($318.3 million) – not to mention fellow franchise starters Transformers ($319.1 million) and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone ($317.6 million) and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring ($314.2 million) – and now the film […]
Video Game Review – Super Smash Bros. 3DS
Tom Powter reviews Super Smash Bros. 3DS… Have you ever wanted to see Mario clash with Link? Maybe Pikachu duking it out with Donkey Kong? Or Marth from Fire Emblem take on Animal Crossing’s Villager in a fight to the death? You’ve come to the right place. It’s been six arduous years since the last […]
Avengers: Age of Ultron behind-the-scenes ‘On the Set’ featurette
As we await the first trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron – which is rumoured to be attached to Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar (out November 7th), but more likely arriving some time this month – The Disney Channel has given us an unrevealing sneak peek by taking us ‘On the Set’ with a short featurette that […]
Movie Review – Draft Day (2014)
Draft Day, 2014. Directed by Ivan Reitman. Starring Kevin Costner, Jennifer Garner, Ellen Burstyn, Denis Leary and Frank Langella. SYNOPSIS: The first day of the NFL draft proves dramatic for the general manager of a team in need of a turnaround. There are a lot of things Draft Day gets right. It’s a ‘sports movie’ […]
The Blacklist Season 2 – Episode 2 Review
David Fleming reviews the second episode of The Blacklist season 2… This weeks episode takes us from America to Poland and back with non stop action all the way. A small seemingly normal bank in Warsaw is hit by a professional team, but there is something not quite straight forward about the heist. Red fills […]
Raindance Film Festival 2014 Review – The Ninth Cloud (2014)
The Ninth Cloud, 2014. Starring Michael Madsen, Megan Maczko, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Sabina Akhmedova, Leo Gregory, Wendy Thomas, Elana Krausz, Julia Verdin, Meredith Ostrom. SYNOPSIS: A dreamer named Zena (Megan Maczko) clings onto her idealistic views of philosophy, art, poetry and love as she makes her life in 1990s London, running away from her painful past. […]
TNT cancels Dallas
TNT has decided not to bring back Dallas for a fourth season. The series that was brought back for a new generation after 20 years saw its last episode air on September 22nd, ending tafter only three seasons. When the show started back up in 2012 it saw some great ratings, reaching over 7 million […]
Second Opinion – Maps to the Stars (2014)
Maps to the Stars, 2014. Directed by David Cronenberg. Starring Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska, Robert Pattinson, John Cusack, Olivia Williams, Sarah Gadon and Evan Bird. SYNOPSIS: A twisted tale about the inner workings of a Hollywood family and the tragic past that they can’t escape. For the first time in his career David Cronenberg has […]
Grimmfest 2014 Review – Coherence (2014)
Coherence, 2014. Directed by James Ward Byrkit. Starring Emily Baldoni, Maury Sterling and Nicholas Brendon. SYNOPSIS: Several friends meet for a dinner party on the same night a rare comet is due to pass overhead. When watching an episode of The Twilight Zone half the fun is guessing how it will end; dead the whole time? Aliens […]