Cartoon Network is to revive the classic animated shows Tom and Jerry, Scooby-Doo and Bugs Bunny as part of its slate of original and acquired programing for this year, Entertainment Weekly has revealed. The Tom and Jerry Show is set to premiere on April 9th and is said to “preserve the feel of the original […]

Anghus Houvouras on why Liam Neeson would have made a terrible 007… Like a lot of you, I get way too caught up with speculative casting and thinking about ‘what might have been’ when it comes to certain actors taking over the most iconic cinematic characters.  The entire school of thought is practically a sub-genre.  […]

With filming on Marvel’s Netflix series set to get underway later in the year, we’ll soon find out which actors are set to bring The Defenders to the screen, and while it’s a little strange that none of the big rumours sites have thrown up any names for Daredevil, Iron Fist, Jessica Jones and Luke […]

After the 2012 mega-blockbuster The Avengers, you have to wonder how Marvel Studios will manage to top the superhero epic with the eagerly-anticipated 2015 sequel The Avengers: Age of Ultron, but it seems that writer-director Joss Whedon is set to turn things up to eleven – at least, according to the God of Thunder himself, […]

The Doctor’s greatest villain The Master has been rumoured to return in Peter Capaldi’s debut series of Doctor Who.　While attending the Newcastle Film and Comic Con, former Doctor Sylvester McCoy claimed that The Master will indeed return, but not in the form of John Simm. Of course McCoy chose not to reveal as to who […]

While promoting his latest film Divergent, Jai Courtney discussed his role as Kyle Reese in the sequel/prequel/remake of the Terminator series, Terminator: Genesis, with IGN. “I’ve always had a bit of skepticism about something being rebooted. I remember when A Good Day to Die Hard came around a few years ago, I was like, ‘Really? […]

Jackson Ball continues our Al Pacino Retrospective with Glengarry Glen Ross… Having won both a Tony and a Pulitzer Prize, you may think that David Mamet’s 1984 play was always ripe for a big-screen adaptation. However, a closer look at Glengarry Glen Ross indicates that a play-to-cinema translation was not as simple as it seemed. […]

Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3 was highly criticised for its extensive use of too many villains so when it was announced that Electro, The Rhino and the Green Goblin would all be sharing the screen in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, fans were rightly concerned. However, director Marc Webb has come to the defence of the film. […]

With films such as Taken, Unknown and his latest offering Non-Stop, Irish actor Liam Neeson has reinvented himself as an action star over the past couple of years. However, had things been different, he could have made this transition much earlier, with the producers of the James Bond franchise eyeing Neeson to take over from […]

Ender’s Game, 2013. Directed by Gavin Hood.Starring Harrison Ford, Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Abigail Breslin, Ben Kingsley and Viola Davis. SYNOPSIS: Young Ender Wiggin is recruited by the International Military to lead the fight against the Formics, a genocidal alien race which nearly annihilated the human race in a previous invasion. Another week, another novella […]