Having fallen just short of the milestone on Thursday, Sony’s superhero sequel The Amazing Spider-Man 2 crossed the $700 million mark yesterday, becoming only the second film to do so this year after Captain America: The Winter Soldier. At this point, it looks likely that Spidey will overtake Cap’s $710.1 million to become the biggest […]

Tom Jolliffe delves into The Dusty VHS Corner for a trio of stock footage spectaculars in Strategic Command, Stormcatcher and Steel Sharks… In the mid to late 90’s, there was an almost epidemic boom of straight to video films that featured plot-lines involving submarines or fighter planes. Why? Well given the vast majority of these […]

Despite the fact that the actor has went on record on several occasions to deny his casting, Drew McWeeney of Hitfix is reporting that former Game of Thrones star Jason Momoa has signed on to play Aquaman in the DC Cinematic Universe, and that the King of Atlantis will make his debut with an appearance […]

A Perfect Plan (French: Un plan parfait), 2012. Directed by Pascal Chaumeil. Starring Diane Kruger and Dany Boon. SYNOPSIS: To break the family curse one woman hatches the perfect plan for a quick fire marriage. Diane Kruger leaves the crime wave of American TV, and heads to France to concoct and take part in a […]

While Edgar Wright has remained silent in the week’s following his split from Marvel (well, apart from this image he posted to Twitter), his good buddy and regular collaborator Simon Pegg has shared a few thoughts on Wright’s Ant-Man departure during an interview with Alex Zane for Sky Movies: “I get why perhaps it’s happened,” […]

The Past (France: Le passé), 2013. Written and Directed by Asghar Farhadi. Starring Bérénice Bejo, Tahar Rahim, Ali Mosaffa, Elyes Aguis and Pauline Burlet. SYNOPSIS: An Iranian man deserts his French wife and her two children to return to his homeland. Meanwhile, his wife starts up a new relationship, a reality her husband confronts upon […]

Jackson Ball reviews the fifth episode of Orange Is the New Black Season 2 … Going into this episode, we leave behind the establishing nature of the opening episodes and ease into the real meat of the season; the bulky centre that Netflix series are becoming famed for. Episode 5 offers a lighter tone than […]

Before The Dark Knight returns to the screen in 2016’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, FOX will explore the origin of the Caped Crusader with Gotham, which sees Ben McKenzie (Southland) leading the cast as Detective Jim Gordon in a pre-Batman Gotham City. Speaking to EW, McKenzie has shared a few thoughts on taking […]

Steve Leadbetter argues that although the Bechdel Test is designed to keep the industry in check, does it really matter to film-makers themselves? The Bechdel test asks whether a work of fiction features at least two women who talk to each other about something other than a man. With the recent release of the figures […]