Following on from the ratings success of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., which premiered in the States last week to almost 12 million viewers, Marvel’s Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada has spoken about the studio’s first foray into live-action television during a chat with Comic Book Resources, as well as updating the status of Disney’s first […]

Villordsutch reviews Image Comics’ Rat Queens #1… “A band of four women, a human, a dwarf, a hobbit and an elf, form an adventuring party to kill monsters and party with the rewards.” Now this is comic is a breath of fun filled fresh air that is certainly not for children.  Rat Queens is set […]

Anthony Stokes on the “Marvel’s movies are for kids, DC’s for adults” debate…. We’re in the age of blockbusters and tentpoles and I personally couldn’t be happier, especially with Marvel. They’ve continued to produce quality, well-made movies with Oscar caliber storytellers at the helm and delivering a consistent movie going experience.  Their counterpart company with […]

A few years back it seemed that the only chance of another visit to the Star Wars universe (in live-action form at least) was the long-in-development TV series Star Wars: Underworld, before George Lucas decided to shelve the project due to budgetary concerns. But of course it’s all changed following Disney’s big purchase of Lucasfilm, […]

Citadel, 2012 Written and directed by Ciaran FoyStarring Aneurin Barnard, James Cosmo, Ian Hanmore, Amy Shiels, Wunmi Mosaku SYNOPSIS: An agoraphobic father teams up with a renegade priest to save his daughter from the clutches of a gang of twisted feral children who committed an act of violence against his family years earlier. Citadel is the […]

We should expect to hear plenty from the cast of Marvel’s The Avengers: Age of Ultron in the coming weeks and months as Joss Whedon’s eagerly-anticipated superhero sequel gears up to go into production early next year, and now we have some comments from new cast addition James Spader (The Blacklist), who has spoken to […]

Robert D. Spake on experiencing classic movies on the big screen… This past week I was fortunate enough to have seen one of my all-time favourite movies. What’s so special about that? I mean, I can watch my favourite movies all the time on DVD. However, in the particular instance I was able to experience […]

Dead Sushi, 2012. Directed by Noboru Iguchi.Starring Rina Takeda, Kentarô Shimazu, Takamasa Suga and Takashi Nishina. SYNOPSIS: When Keiko is disowned by her sushi chef father, she finds work in a resort hotel catering to the up-market business sector. But when a party from a nearby pharmaceuticals research facility check in, little do they know […]

Commenting on the Critics with Simon Columb…. On Friday, amongst others, Bleeding Cool, Coming Soon, /Film – and, of course, Flickering Myth – all covered the release of images from Toy Story of Terror! revealing Combat Carl, voiced by Carl Weathers: “Disney has revealed this first look at Combat Carl from Pixar’s upcoming TV special […]

Luke Owen reviews the first episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D… The Marvel Cinematic Universe makes the leap from big to small screen with the debut episode of The Avengers spin-off, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.. It’s a show that had a lot of hype around it, with the first part being the geek crowd excited […]