Bypass, 2014 Written and directed by Duane Hopkins Starring George MacKay, Benjamin Dilloway, Charlotte Spencer, Lara Peake, Matt Cross SYNOPSIS: Tim is a good kid. Tim is a criminal. Duane Hopkin’s Bypass is one of those movies that displays a “slice of real life”. Nothing in the movie is manufactured to fit film standards, plot threads […]

Former Man of Steel Brandon Routh (Superman Returns, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) is set to play yet another comic book character this year, as he’s joined the cast of Arrow as Ray Palmer, a.k.a. The Atom. In the comics, Palmer is a physicist who specializes in matter compression, and uses a mass of white dwarf star matter […]

Last weekend Guardians of the Galaxy overtook the domestic box office take of 2008’s Iron Man ($318.3 million) – not to mention fellow franchise starters Transformers ($319.1 million) and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone ($317.6 million) and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring ($314.2 million) – and now the film […]

Tom Powter reviews Super Smash Bros. 3DS… Have you ever wanted to see Mario clash with Link? Maybe Pikachu duking it out with Donkey Kong? Or Marth from Fire Emblem take on Animal Crossing’s Villager in a fight to the death? You’ve come to the right place. It’s been six arduous years since the last […]

As we await the first trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron – which is rumoured to be attached to Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar (out November 7th), but more likely arriving some time this month – The Disney Channel has given us an unrevealing sneak peek by taking us ‘On the Set’ with a short featurette that […]

Draft Day, 2014. Directed by Ivan Reitman. Starring Kevin Costner, Jennifer Garner, Ellen Burstyn, Denis Leary and Frank Langella. SYNOPSIS: The first day of the NFL draft proves dramatic for the general manager of a team in need of a turnaround. There are a lot of things Draft Day gets right. It’s a ‘sports movie’ […]

David Fleming reviews the second episode of The Blacklist season 2… This weeks episode takes us from America to Poland and back with non stop action all the way. A small seemingly normal bank in Warsaw is hit by a professional team, but there is something not quite straight forward about the heist. Red fills […]

The Ninth Cloud, 2014. Starring Michael Madsen, Megan Maczko, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Sabina Akhmedova, Leo Gregory, Wendy Thomas, Elana Krausz, Julia Verdin, Meredith Ostrom. SYNOPSIS: A dreamer named Zena (Megan Maczko) clings onto her idealistic views of philosophy, art, poetry and love as she makes her life in 1990s London, running away from her painful past. […]

TNT has decided not to bring back Dallas for a fourth season. The series that was brought back for a new generation after 20 years saw its last episode air on September 22nd, ending tafter only three seasons. When the show started back up in 2012 it saw some great ratings, reaching over 7 million […]

Maps to the Stars, 2014. Directed by David Cronenberg. Starring Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska, Robert Pattinson, John Cusack, Olivia Williams, Sarah Gadon and Evan Bird. SYNOPSIS: A twisted tale about the inner workings of a Hollywood family and the tragic past that they can’t escape. For the first time in his career David Cronenberg has […]