Renowned American film critic Roger Ebert has passed away today aged 70 after a long battle with cancer. Ebert, who rose to prominence through his long-running TV partnership with fellow film critic Gene Siskel, was the first film critic to receive a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, […]

Scott Furnell-Calvert reviews Batman: Detective Comics Vol. 1: Faces of Death… “As a part of the acclaimed DC Comics – The New 52 event, DETECTIVE COMICS is relaunched for the first time! Bruce Wayne returns as Batman – and sets his sights on the Gotham Ripper, who in turn has his sights on Batman. Meanwhile, […]

The Expatriate (a.k.a. Erased), 2012. Directed by Philipp Stolzl.Starring Aaron Eckhart, Olga Kurylenko, Liana Liberato, Neil Napier, Garrick Hagon and Alexander Fehling. SYNOPSIS: Ben Logan (Eckhart) and his daughter, Amy (Liberato) started a new life in Belgium after Ben’s job sent him overseas. He’s moved past the struggle of moving abroad and is at the […]

As J.J. Abrams prepares to take us ‘Into Darkness’ with his eagerly-anticipated Star Trek sequel, the filmmaker spoken to SFX Magazine about the upcoming film, as well as discussing the comparisons between his 2009 reboot and George Lucas’ epic space opera Star Wars – which of course Abrams himself is set to resurrect with Disney’s […]

Matt Smith reviews the latest episode of Elementary… Sherlock Holmes, in many of his forms and certainly all his recent ones, is displayed as quite a cold character. Untrusting to a degree that even if people he knew were guilty of a crime, Sherlock would barely bat an eyelid. As Gregory House says: ‘Everybody lies.’ […]

Anghus Houvouras reviews The Superior Spider-Man #7… “An Avenger no more? With the public at large realizing this is no longer a ‘Friendly Neighborhood’ Spider-Man, and in light of his actions in recent events, will the Avengers kick Spidey off the team? Plus the return of Cardiac! And a new development for a Spider-Man who […]

Matt Smith reviews the latest episode of The Following…. So, over the last couple weeks I’ve done a lot. And by ‘a lot’, I mean, ‘not much’. I’ve sat in front of the TV watching various TV shows, films and the like, some of the time frankly demolishing Easter-themed chocolate. There were foil and chocolate […]

For those attending the 2013 Toronto Jewish Film Festival, they will be able to see the documentary Joe Papp in Five Acts (2010) which is to be aired as part of the PBS series American Masters back in 2010.   The story is as educational as the man who decided to bring the plays of William Shakespeare […]

Luke Owen reviews the final issue of Godzilla: Half Century War…. Ota Murakami has fought Godzilla for fifty years. The decades have been hard on Ota, and he is seemingly no closer to his goal. Now, in the frozen wastes of Antarctica, the end of the world beckons. Ota and Ken gear up for a […]

Liam Trim reviews the return of Doctor Who…Warning: Spoilers!Doctor Who is back and this time the big attraction, at the start of Part Two of Series Seven, was the proper introduction of new companion Clara Oswald, played by Jenna-Louise Coleman. Yes we’ve seen her twice before already, in different incarnations, but it’s in The Bells […]