Walt Disney Pictures has announced that it has broken the $4 billion mark at the global box office this year for the first time in history, thanks in no small part to smash hits such Thor: The Dark World, Monsters University and Oz the Great and Powerful, not to mention 2013’s highest-grossing movie Iron Man […]

Matt Smith reviews the sixth episode of Elementary season 2…. A case, it can be said (by me, right now), is a lot like life. What can at first seem simple is at times frustrating, maddening and complicated. But in the end will hopefully bring satisfaction to those involved. The case in point is the […]

Luke Owen reviews Greg Sestero’s memoirs of working on “the worst movie ever made”… The hilarious and inspiring story of how a mysterious misfit got past every roadblock in the Hollywood system to achieve success on his own terms: a $6 million cinematic catastrophe called The Room.Anyone who has seen Tommy Wiseau’s The Room will have had […]

Warner Bros. must have thought it would hit lucky nabbing a December 18th, 2015 release date for its upcoming Warcraft adaptation, slipping in nicely to the Holiday Fantasy slot currently occupied by Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy… until Lucasfilm announced that J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: Episode VII would arrive that very same day. So, facing competition […]

Over the past couple of months, there’s been speculation that Universal’s upcoming Jurassic World could be a reboot of the blockbuster dino-franchise launched by Steven Spielberg back in 1993, but fans can now rest easy with director Colin Trevorrow (Safety Not Guaranteed) putting an end to the rumours by confirming that the 2015 film will […]

Anghus Houvouras marks the ninth episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. by weighing up the series’ pros and cons…. We’re almost halfway into the first season of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and I felt it was time to do a little review.  A kind of pro/con list if you will.  The show seems to be rapidly working […]

Luke Owen reviews Godzilla: Rulers of Earth #6 from IDW… The stakes have never been higher when an alien onslaught on Las Vegas reveals new weapons for both sides of the conflict! Meanwhile, Lucy has her own problems to deal with as two countries pit monster against monster, with her team caught in the middle. […]

With his last few films Quentin Tarantino has branched out from the crime / gangster genre where he made his name, tackling martial arts (Kill Bill), World War II (Inglourious Basterds) and the Old West (Django Unchained). However, appearing on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last night, Tarantino has revealed that he’s set to stick with […]

Martin Deer on ‘critics’, ‘bloggers’ and the state of the film community… This year, 2013, has been the year of some wonderful outbursts within the film community. It was the year everyone turned on Superman for being an apathetic city destroyer; the year giant monsters vs aliens caused people to freak out over whether you […]

As if 2015 wasn’t already stacked with the likes of Batman vs. Superman, The Avengers: Age of Ultron, Jurassic World, The Fantastic Four, Star Wars: Episode VII and… umm… Fifty Shades of Grey, now there’s a new figure stepping into the fray – one wearing a hockey mask. Paramount have announced a release date for […]