300: Rise of an Empire (2014) Directed by Noam Murro Starring Sullivan Stapleton, Eva Green, Lena Headey, Hans Matheson, Callan Mulvey, David Wenham, Rodrigo Santoro SYNOPSIS: Greek general Themistokles leads the charge against invading Persian forces led by mortal-turned-god Xerxes and Artemisia, vengeful commander of the Persian navy. Eight years after the Spartans raised hell […]

This coming Wednesday (October 8th), IDW Publishing is collecting the Wonder Woman newspaper comic strip from William Moulton Marston and Harry G. Peters for the very first time with a hardcover book that includes the entire strip from May 1st 1944 to December 1st 1945. Just a few years after she burst into comic books, […]

The Beat Beneath My Feet, 2014. Directed by John Williams. Starring Luke Perry, Nicholas Galitzine, Lisa Dillon, Verity Pinter, James Tarpey, Simon Lowe. SYNOPSIS: A boy receives guitar lessons from a washed-up rock god living in the council flat below his, keeping it a secret from his God-fearing mother and the bullies that torment him […]

Although it was assumed when a reboot of The Fantastic Four was announced that Marvel’s First Family would inhabit the same universe as the X-Men – owing in no small part to comments from Mark Millar suggesting as much – producer Simon Kinberg downplayed the possibility back in May, stating that the characters “live in […]

Gone Girl, 2014. Directed by David Fincher Starring Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry, Carrie Coon, Emily Ratajkowski and Kim Dickens. SYNOPSIS: With his wife’s disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it’s suspected that he may not be innocent. […]

Anghus Houvouras with five reasons why Mel Gibson should direct Iron Man 4… Robert Downey Jr. set the internet ablaze with crazy and wild speculation after making a comment about the liklihood of his involvement in Iron Man 4 should certain factors fall into place. When asked about his long time friend Mel Gibson directing […]

Queen & Country, 2014. Written and Directed by John Boorman. Starring Callum Turner, Caleb Landry Jones, Pat Shortt, David Thewlis, Richard E. Grant, Vanessa Kirby and Tamsin Egerton. SYNOPSIS: An Englishman who grew up in London during World War II joins the military to fight in the Korean War. In 1987, Hope and Glory was […]

The US Box Office Report for week commencing 3rd October 2014… It was a fiercely fought competition over the weekend between the big budget thriller Gone Girl and the low budget horror Annabelle, with the latter seemingly on point to take the number one spot. But it was Fincher’s adaptation that eventually topped the chart in […]

Back in July Guillermo del Toro revealed his ideas for Hellboy 3, but stated that he didn’t think the film would ever get made. We’ve been hearing similar statements for a few years now and with each passing day the hope of Hellboy 3 hitting the big screen fades. Enter Arrested Development‘s Jeffrey Tambor, who played Tom Manning in both Hellboy and Hellboy […]

Neil Calloway begins his new weekly column looking at the state of ‘British’ cinema in 2014… According to a report in The Sunday Times, UK cinema audiences were down 8% on last year this summer, with only The Inbetweeners 2 and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (both sequels AND based on material from elsewhere) […]