The Imitation Game, 2014. Directed by Morten Tylbum. Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Mark Strong, Charles Dance, Rory Kinnear and Matthew Goode. SYNOPSIS: The true story of mathematician Alan Turing and his time spent at Bletchley Park developing a machine to crack the enigma code. The treatment of Alan Turing by the British Government is […]
Comic Book Review – Elric Volume 1: The Ruby Throne
Michelle Herbert reviews Elric Volume 1: The Ruby Throne by J. Blondel, D. Poli, R. Recht and J. Bastide… Eric, the albino emperor, has ruled Melnibon for millennia. However, Elric’s empire is crumbling before him and now his envious cousin and prince of Melnibon, Yyrkoon, plots to claim the Ruby Throne for himself. A superb […]
Brenton Thwaites circles Pirates of the Caribbean 5
By this point, we’ve come to expect that every Pirates of the Caribbean movie needs a milquetoast hero at its center, to balance out the quirkiness of Johnny Depp’s Jack Sparrow. Orlando Bloom fit that mold in the first three films, and was replaced by The Hunger Games: Catching Fire‘s Sam Claflin in the fourth film, and now […]
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Was The Split Necessary?
Robert Kojder on whether The Hunger Games: Mockingjay should have been split in two… Unless you have been living under a rock, then you have probably noticed the recent lucrative trend by Hollywood to take the final chapter of an adaptation and split it into multiple forms. In some cases the decision has been justified […]
Watch the music video for Billy Boyd’s end credits song for The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
We may have already heard the song that The Lord of the Rings alum Billy Boyd performed for the end-credits scene in the upcoming Middle Earth saga capper, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, but now, courtesy of EW, the song has been put to video. The video features footage of Boyd performing the song in the […]
Marvel announces new Howard The Duck ongoing comic
Marvel’s Howard the Duck all but disappeared after his eponymous 1986 film failed miserably and entered the pantheon of terrible comic book movies, but the character is primed to make a triumphant return, thanks in no small part to a funny post-credits scene in this year’s runaway hit, Guardians of the Galaxy. While he may not […]
FX and FXX slot January premieres for Archer, Justified, The Americans, and more
While the current television season may be gearing up for a winter break, we’ll have plenty of great stuff headed our way in January, thanks to a host of new premiere dates from FX and its sister spin-off network FXX. First out the gate are the FX series. Archer‘s sixth season will begin on Thursday, January 8th at […]
Fifty Shades of Grey gets a new TV spot
Just a few days after the second trailer, the highly anticipated adaptation of the novel Fifty Shades of Grey has got its first TV spot. Check it out after the official synopsis… Fifty Shades of Grey is the hotly anticipated film adaptation of the bestselling book that has become a global phenomenon. Since its release, […]
Splinter Cell movie to begin production early next year
Hidden within an interview with Collider about John Wick were some comments by producer Basil Ilwanyk (The Town, The Expendables) about the upcoming Splinter Cell adaptation from Edge of Tomorrow director Doug Liman. The film has been in the works for quite some time now, and stars Tom Hardy in the lead role of badass Navy Seal operative Sam Fisher. The […]
Learn the ‘Art of the Sell’ from Oscar Isaac in A Most Violent Year clip
A24 Films has released a new clip from director J.C. Chandor’s (All Is Lost) upcoming crime drama A Most Violent Year which sees Oscar Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis) teaching us the ‘art of the sell’, check it out after the official synopsis… A MOST VIOLENT YEAR is a searing crime drama set in New York […]
