Martin Deer on ‘critics’, ‘bloggers’ and the state of the film community… This year, 2013, has been the year of some wonderful outbursts within the film community. It was the year everyone turned on Superman for being an apathetic city destroyer; the year giant monsters vs aliens caused people to freak out over whether you […]

As if 2015 wasn’t already stacked with the likes of Batman vs. Superman, The Avengers: Age of Ultron, Jurassic World, The Fantastic Four, Star Wars: Episode VII and… umm… Fifty Shades of Grey, now there’s a new figure stepping into the fray – one wearing a hockey mask. Paramount have announced a release date for […]

The Family, 2013. Directed by Luc Besson.Starring Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dianna Agron, John D’Leo, Tommy Lee Jones and Jimmy Palumbo. SYNOPSIS: The Manzoni family, a notorious mafia clan, is relocated to Normandy, France under the witness protection program, where fitting in soon becomes challenging as their old habits die hard. Once one of […]

Trevor Hogg chats with Marcelo Zarvos about the art of composing, The Good Shepherd, The Big C, Ray Donovan and being nominated for an Emmy…  “When I was really young I remember watching The Sting [1973] and I loved that music,” recalls Marcelo Zarvos.  “It was one of those things which made me want to […]

If you’ve been keeping track of Sony’s upcoming superhero sequel The Amazing Spider-Man 2, then you’ll know that Andrew Garfield’s wall-crawler is going to have his hands full when he returns for the second instalment of the rebooted series as the studio looks to expand its Spider-Man universe by introducing a host of villains. Jamie […]

Concrete Night (Finland: Betoniyö), 2013. Directed by Pirjo Honkasalo.Starring Johannes Brotherus, Jari Virman, Anneli Karppinen, Alex Anton and Iida Kuningas. SYNOPSIS: A fourteen-year-old boy in a stifling Helsinki slum takes some unwise life lessons from his soon-to-be-incarcerated older brother. Ostensibly about 14-year-old Simo (Johannes Brotherus) and his quest for self-discovery in the drudgery of his […]

Now that she’s finally confirmed in the role of the Scarlet Witch alongside Godzilla co-star Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s Quicksilver, Elizabeth Olsen has spoken about joining the line-up of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes for Joss Whedon’s The Avengers: Age of Ultron, revealing that we’ll find a “psychologically damaged” and “messed up” Wanda Maximoff when the hotly-anticipated sequel arrives […]

Having reprised his role from Captain America: The First Avenger this year for the Iron Man 3 Marvel One-Shot Agent Carter, actor Neal McDonough has been speaking about the prospect of him returning as Dum Dum Dugan in future Marvel Studios projects – specifically, the rumoured Agent Carter TV series with Hayley Atwell, which seems […]

Sony is obviously keen to expand its superhero output, having only recently announced an expansion of its Amazing Spider-Man franchise with sequels and spin-offs, but with the majority of the other big properties held by Marvel Studios, Fox and Warner Bros., the studio has now decided to create its own original superheroes. According to The […]

The Retrieval, 2013. Written and Directed by Chris Eska.Starring Ashton Sanders, Tishuan Scott, Keston John, Bill Oberst Jr., Christine Horn, Alfonso Freeman, Raven Nicole LeDeatte and Jonathan Brooks. SYNOPSIS: On the outskirts of the U.S. Civil War, a boy is sent north by his bounty hunter gang to retrieve a wanted man. Black uncle and […]