With the release of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 only weeks away, director Francis Lawrence has given an interview discussing how The Hunger Games universe could be explored beyond the books, although he did admit that it would be difficult to expand the franchise… “It’s a tough thing. It’s a weird thing,” says […]

Martin Carr reviews the first episode of Constantine… John Constantine. Professional exorcist, demonologist and petty dabbler in the dark arts is strapped to a gurney. As electric current causes his body to spasm for a moment those bad memories disappear, because ‘to err is human, to forgive divine’. Unfortunately there will be no sanctuary here, […]

With a week and a half to go before its release, a new featurette for Interstellar has arrived online, which showcases the cast of Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi epic; check it out below… Interstellar chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human […]

Anghus Houvouras reviews the sixth episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 2… Agent Ward (Brett Dalton) was probably the least interesting character on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. until we learned he was a spy working for Hydra. It was then that the boy scout routine was shed and in its place we met a sociopathic puppet […]

Phil Webster reviews Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth… As the spiritual successor to Alpha Centauri, not to mention coming off the back of the great Civilization 5, Beyond Earth has a lot to live up to. Its premise is different to classic Civilization games, in that it has no rich tapestry of factual history as […]

Ahead of its debut in December, Netflix has released the first teaser trailer for Marco Polo, which stars newcomer Lorenzo Richelmy as the famed 13th century explorer. Also featuring in the cast of the ten episode series are Benedict Wong (Prometheus), Joan Chen (Twin Peaks), Chin Han (Arrow, The Dark Knight), Zhu Zhu (Cloud Atlas), […]

Villordsutch reviews the 2000AD Winter Special… Greetings squaxx dek Thargo and welcome to this rather rotund 48-page winter special of 2000AD where following on from the popular Summer Special (Autumn be damned) some impressive names have returned to give us some one-shots or opening chapters samples for forthcoming stories.  So let’s dive in and see […]

Earlier today we brought you the first clip and extended trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron [which you see here], but that wasn’t the only footage shown during Marvel Studios’ big press event yesterday, as a clip of Chris Evans’ Steve Rogers and Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark was also screened, and it has made […]

Yesterday Marvel Studios announced its full Phase Three line-up, confirming those earlier reports which stated that Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark is set to join Chris Evans’ Steve Rogers in Captain America 3, which is now officially going by the title of Captain America: Civil War. Now we’ve known for a few weeks that the […]

We got the first TV spot for Marvel’s Agent Carter yesterday [which you can watch here], and now Deadline has revealed that Meagen Fay (Murder in the First) has signed on to the cast of the Captain America spin-off for a minimum of four episodes, where she will play the woman who runs the boarding […]