Dwayne Johnson has taken to Twitter to announce that he will play the villain Black Adam in an upcoming Shazam movie. It has been known for some time that The Rock would have a role in an upcoming DC movie, with speculation early on that he could be playing the Jon Stewart version of Green […]
Is television producing better shows than Hollywood is films?
Thomas Roach on whether television is producing better shows than Hollywood is films… Hollywood films do tend to all be the same: predictable, and sometimes lacking in substance. This is not always the case but still. For example, this year Transformers: Age of Extinction is the first film to break a billion dollars at the […]
Video Game Review – Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty
Kris Wall reviews Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty… Playstation 4 is quickly becoming known for the amount of ‘HD Remasters’ it’s playing host to . From remasters of last gen games like Tomb Raider and the superb The Last of Us to the newly announced Sleeping Dogs Definitive Edition, Dead or Alive 5: Last Round and […]
Sylvester Stallone talks Rambo 5
Back in June, Sylvester Stallone confirmed that he’s set to follow up his latest outing in The Expendables 3 by returning to the role of John J. Rambo for the fifth instalment of the classic action franchise, and now the star has given a brief update on his preparations for Rambo 5… “I’m following a […]
The Strain – Episode 8 Review
Martin Carr reviews the eighth episode of The Strain…. Manhattan has become a haven for the infected. Creatures run rampant whilst a lone faction advances across the city. Finally in a deserted electrical supply store there is a meeting of minds over some UV lights. The true test of a television series and its writing […]
Cambridge Film Festival Review – A Most Wanted Man (2014)
A Most Wanted Man, 2014. Directed by Anton Corbijn. Starring Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Grigoriy Dobrygin, Rachel McAdams, Robin Wright, Willem Dafoe, Daniel Brühl, Nina Hoss, Mehdi Dehbi, Homayoun Ershadi, and Martin Wuttke. SYNOPSIS: A Chechen Muslim’s illegal immigration to Hamburg catches the attention of both the German and American intelligence services. As Philip Seymour Hoffman’s […]
Watch a trio of Creature Commandos DC Nation shorts
DC Entertainment’s YouTube channel has released a trio of DC Nation shorts based around the adventures of the Creature Commandos, and we have them for your viewing pleasure right here… You can watch new DC Nation shorts as they premiere on Cartoon Network during episodes of Teen Titans Go!
How To Train Your Dragon 3 has been delayed to 2017
Despite How To Train Your Dragon 2 passing the $600 million mark at the global box office this weekend and solidifying its place as the highest-grossing animated film of 2014, Dreamworks has announced that the third film in the franchise will arrive a year later than expected. How To Train Your Dragon 3 was originally slated to open […]
The biggest box office hits of the summer
Well, it’s September, and the summer movie season is over is over for another year. Taking the crown of the biggest box office hit of the summer in the States is Marvel’s superhero space opera Guardians of the Galaxy, which pulled in $275 million, while the UK crown belonged to 20th Century Fox’s simian sequel […]
Captain America: The Winter Soldier co-director details Hawkeye’s deleted sequence
Last week Jeremy Renner suggested that he could be set to follow-up his role in Avengers: Age of Ultron with another outing as Hawkeye in 2016’s Captain America 3; however, as it happened, screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely had planned to include the archer in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, with Renner’s schedule ultimately […]