Alice Rush reviews the first episode of Bates Motel season 2….  This week saw the return of Bates Motel, the modern day prequel to Psycho. The first season proved to be a bit of a slow burner with tension growing slowly in every episode that eventually culminated in Miss Watson’s brutal murder and the implied […]

Anghus Houvouras reviews Magneto #1… “Once the deadliest, most feared mutant mastermind on the planet, MAGNETO is no longer the man he once was. After falling in with Cyclops and the X-Men, Erik Lehnsherr became just one more pawn in another man’s war. But now, determined to fight the war for mutantkind’s survival on his […]

Andy Naylor reviews South Park: The Stick of Truth… Cartoon spin-off games, much like their movie counterparts, meet with mixed success. More often than not you get a poor tie-in that is designed to cash in on the popularity of the source material – see last year’s awful Family Guy game for a prime example […]

Piers McCarthy reviews the twelfth episode of The Walking Dead season 4…. Having included multiple character focus in last week’s episode, episode 12 of The Walking Dead falls back to a singular narrative – that of Beth and Daryl’s journey. Whether or not you’re into these kinds of episodes, there’s always a lot to learn […]

Rome, Open City (Italian: Roma, città aperta), 1945. Directed by Roberto Rossellini.Starring Anna Magnani, Aldo Fabrizi, Marcello Pagliero, Francesco Grandjacquet, Maria Michi and Vito Annichiarico. SYNOPSIS: Roberto Rossellini directs this 1940s drama about the last days of the Nazi occupation of Italy during World War II. Resistance leader Giorgio Manfredi flees the Gestapo and seeks […]

Thomas Harris reviews the first episode of Hannibal Season 2…  The second-season premiere of Hannibal opens big. Shockingly big. In fact, it would work as a season finale. A brawl between Mads Mikkelsen’s psychopathic Hannibal Lecter and Laurence Fishburne’s Jack Crawford. It’s been a long time coming but the manner in which it is pulled […]

According to Deadline, Fox is gearing up to develop a remake of the classic musical West Side Story, specifically because Steven Spielberg has expressed an interest in the project, although it’s said to be in the very early stages, with a writer yet to become attached. The original movie adaptation of the 1957 Broadway musical […]

Every Wednesday, FM writers Simon Columb and Brogan Morris write two short reviews on Woody Allen films … in the hope of watching all his films over the course of roughly 49 weeks. If you have been watching Woody’s films and want to join in, feel free to comment with short reviews yourself! Next up […]

Anghus Houvouras asks why we want our celebrities to suffer… Matthew McConaughey had an enviable 2013. The kind of career reinvention that is so rare I’m hard pressed to find a modern comparison. He was always a likable guy. Since he first rolled up in movies like Dazed and Confused audiences were drawn to this […]

Anghus Houvouras reviews the fourteenth episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D… They should have called this episode ‘Course Correction’. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has suffered something of an identity crisis. Since the shows big premiere, fans have become disenfranchised with the show citing its lack of big thrills and a bland, grating cast as reasons they’ve […]