Sam Thorne on the rise of the antihero…. Ever since the turn of the century, culture’s been going in an odd, strange direction. Typically recent entertainment content has had an emphasis on blood, violence, and sexuality in attempt to be ‘edgy’ in it’s style and texture. More interestingly is how morality is depicted through the […]

Following hot on the heels of the news about a Gotham TV series focussing on Detective Jim Gordon comes word that Warner Bros. Television and DC Comics have now reached a deal with NBC to bring John Constantine back to the screen. According to Deadline, the supernatural detective is set to star in his own […]

Runner Runner, 2013. Directed by Brad Furman.Starring Ben Affleck, Justin Timberlake, Gemma Arterton, Anthony Mackie, Michael Esper and Oliver Cooper. SYNOPSIS: When a poor college student who cracks an online poker game goes bust, he arranges a face-to-face with the man he thinks cheated him, a sly offshore entrepreneur. Around about the half way mark […]

Chronicle and Fruitvale Station star Michael B. Jordan is certainly popular these days; over the past couple of months he’s been linked to the role of Johnny Storm in The Fantastic Four and Apollo Creed’s grandson in the Rocky spin-off Creed, and now we can add another film to that list with The Wrap reporting […]

Earlier this week David S. Goyer was in London for BAFTA and BFI’s latest Screenwriting Lecture, during which he discussed the controversial ending to Man of Steel [read what he had to say here], while the Associated Press also caught up with him and managed to get an update on the status of 2015’s eagerly […]

It was a movie that blew the minds of fanboys everywhere, made a tonne of money for Disney and Marvel and set the ball rolling for their next run of comic book movies. Many might even say that it was the film that made Warner Bros. sit up and greenlight Batman vs. Superman. But there […]

Luke Owen looks at Dinosaurs Attack! #3 from IDW… Is anyone on Earth safe from the time-displaced, flesh-hungry dinosaurs, phased into modern-day reality by Prof. Thorne’s particle beam experiment gone awry?  Will a dream-like conversation with a sentient humanoid dinosaur spark a plan to end all this global destruction, or actually hasten humanity’s demise?Last month, […]

Anthony Stokes on what Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. got wrong…. When Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. was announced last summer I thought it was the dumbest idea ever, then I remembered… it’s Joss Whedon. Surely there had to be something of value here. As the premiere date drew closer I looked at the ads and promotions and […]

Chris Cooper reviews the latest issue of IDW’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles… “While Leonardo and the Foot bring the fight to the Savate ninjas, the other Turtles call upon all of their allies to prepare for War. City Fall continues to escalate when Splinter crosses a line by helping Old Hob get his revenge!”Ooooooo. If […]

Luke Owen looks at Sex Criminals from Image Comics… Suzie’s a normal girl with an extraordinary ability: when she has sex, she stops time. One night she meets John…  who has the same gift. And so they do what any other sex-having, time-stopping, couple would do: they rob banks. In the vein of THE 40-YEAR […]