Sienna Miller is in talks to join Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper. The Layer Cake star has edged out Jaimie Alexander (Thor: The Dark World) and Kate Mara (House of Cards) for the female lead alongside Bradley Cooper (American Hustle). Cooper will star as Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, who had the most confirmed sniper kills in […]

Piers McCarthy reviews the thirteenth episode of The Walking Dead Season 4…. Rick and Carl seem like a distant memory at this point in The Walking Dead, with three episodes of their absence. Priority and focus has been put on Daryl (as it does by the end of episode 13), trying to unearth a character […]

Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige has been teasing the possibility of a female-led Marvel film for the past few weeks [see what he had to say about a Scarlett Johansson / Black Widow solo movie here] and in a recent interview with Badass Digest, he has indicated that they would rather use a new character, […]

Brogan Morris continues our Al Pacino Retrospective with Donnie Brasco… Goodfellas is a clear precursor to Donnie Brasco – Mike Newell’s film is so obviously indebted to Scorsese’s mob epic that it emerges as an unofficial ‘sidequel’, exploring the ruthless mafia family and navigating around mob vernacular in much the same way. But whereas Scorsese’s […]

Matt Smith reviews the fourth episode of True Detective…. After the creepy shot of a suspected murderer in last week’s episode, the question preying on the back of my mind the entire week was whether Cohle and Hart were going to catch their guy. Part of me knew it wouldn’t happen, as True Detective is, […]

Having mapped out its Marvel releases for the next few years with May’s X-Men: Days of Future Past set to be followed by The Fantastic Four in 2015 and X-Men: Apocalypse in 2016, it seems that 2017 could see fan-favourite Logan returning for his third solo outing, with director James Mangold revealing via Twitter that […]

Escape Plan, 2013. Directed by Mikael Håfström.Starring Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, 50 Cent, Jim Caviezel, Vinnie Jones, Sam Neill, Faran Tahir, Vincent D’Onofrio and Amy Ryan. SYNOPSIS: When a structural-security authority finds himself set up and incarcerated in the world’s most secret and secure prison, he has to use his skills to escape with help […]

If you were holding out any hope that Cartoon Network might air the remaining episodes of Beware the Batman, then I’m afraid we’ve got some bad news for you. It appears that our fears have been confirmed and the show has gone the way of Young Justice and Green Lantern: The Animated Series, with Newsarama […]

We’re still a few weeks away from the release of the second movie in Sony’s rebooted Spider-Man universe, but that hasn’t stopped the studio from mapping out the future of the franchise. We already know that director Marc Webb and Andrew Garfield will return for The Amazing Spider-Man 3 in 2016, while there’s planned spin-offs […]

Thomas Harris reviews the second episode of Hannibal Season 2… At times, watching Hannibal feels less simply a police procedural, more an adrenaline boost. The opening of Sakizuki encompasses this. Following directly from the previous episode, victim Roland Umber is tearing himself from dead bodies. It’s a startling image and one that continues to haunt […]