It is of course a landmark year for Doctor Who, with the Time Lord celebrating his 50th anniversary with a range of programming including the upcoming special The Day of the Doctor starring Matt Smith, David Tennant and John Hurt, before Smith hands things over to the Twelfth Doctor Peter Capaldi with this year’s Christmas […]

Star Wars: The Clone Wars – The Complete Season Five Executive Produced by George Lucas.Featuring the voice talents of Matt Lanter, Ashley Eckstein, James Arnold Taylor, Dee Bradley Baker, Tom Kane, Jim Cummings, Samuel Witwer, and David Tennant. SYNOPSIS: In its fifth season, The Clone Wars story moves closer to the grim events of Star […]

Lifeforce, 1985. Directed by Tobe Hooper.Starring: Steve Railsbeck, Peter Firth, Frank Finlay, Mathilda May and Patrick Stewart. SYNOPSIS:During a mission to study Halley’s Comet, astronauts discover a hidden space ship within. Inside the ship, they find three nude beings which appear to be human. That is the last that is heard of the mission. A […]

With Marvel having taken its first steps into live-action television with Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., we’ve already heard talk that the Marvel One-Shot Agent Carter could be heading to the small screen, as well as confirmation from Captain America: The First Avenger star Hayley Atwell that she’d be keen to return to the role for a […]

The Wicker Man: The Final Cut, 1973. Directed by Robin Hardy.Starring Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento, Britt Ekland, and Ingrid Pitt. SYNOPSIS: Police sergeant Howie (Woodward) is sent to a remote Scottish island to search for a missing girl. His inquiry proves fruitless once he realises the whole town seems to covering something up. […]

20 Feet from Stardom, 2013. Directed by Morgan Neville. SYNOPSIS: Backup singers live in a world that lies just beyond the spotlight. Their voices bring harmony to the biggest bands in popular music, but we’ve had no idea who these singers are or what lives they lead, until now. Hearing Gimme Shelter by The Rolling […]

Anghus Houvouras on how nerds ruin movies…. Gravity is fast becoming a phenomenon here in the U.S.  It’s second week tally is $40 million giving it one of the most successful second weekends of 2013 and is on the fast track to becoming one of the year’s biggest hits.  A movie that achieves this level […]

The X-Files may be twenty years old now – and absent from the screen since 2008’s The X Files: I Want to Believe – but that doesn’t mean we’ve necessarily seen the last of FBI Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, at least if stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson have any say in the […]

Commenting on the Critics with Simon Columb…. Will Self took it upon himself to answer back to the core argument of Mark Kermode’s recent book, Hatchet Job, and amongst a thoroughly impressive use of language, he made the following observation… “Now we have instant access to an unparalleled library of films, books and recordings, we […]

Jackson Ball looks at five essential scenes where Al Pacino turns up the volume… Subtlety: it’s an asset you will find in many of history’s finest actors. Sometimes a performance requires a little bit of restraint, and knowing when to dial it back a notch is what can separate the cream of the Hollywood crop. […]