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 […]

Helen Murdoch with a selection of movies to cure the winter flu blues… It’s that time of year again where everyone in the office is coughing and spluttering, you start work in the dark and leave in the dark and you can’t remember the last time you could breathe normally. Having recently been hit in […]

Despite claiming that he was set to retire from filmmaking with Clerks III, filmmaker Kevin Smith has decided to add another movie to his CV before he reunites with Dante and Randall, returning to the horror genre for the “monster movie” Tusk. Speaking to EW Smith has confirmed that Justin Long (Jeepers Creepers, Drag Me […]

Squirm, 1976. Directed by Jeff Liebermann.Starring Don Scardino, Patricia Pearcy, R.A. Dow, Jean Sullivan, Fran Higgins and Peter MacLean. SYNOPSIS: After electricity pylons fall to the ground during a cataclysmic storm, millions of volts transform the native worms of Fly Creek, Georgia into insatiable predatory beasts… Squirm, a 70’s ‘revenge of nature’ flick, is as […]

Anghus Houvouras reviews the third issue of Jupiter’s Legacy… “The heroes conspire to overthrow The Utopian, discontent rumbling in the bars and the clubs where the superheroes get wasted and complain how much he’s been holding them all back with his old-fashioned ideas of power and responsibility. There’s a new world out there if they […]

Luke Owen looks at Godzilla: Rulers of Earth #4…While the CKR forces won the battle in San Diego, the war has just begun! When new forces pit their ultimate weapon against a weakened Godzilla, help from unexpected allies will be needed! The action hits a fever-pitch in an event that fans will be talking about […]

Prisoners, 2013. Directed by Denis Villeneuve.Starring Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal , Terrence Howard, Viola Davis, Maria Bello, Melissa Leo and Paul Dano. SYNOPSIS: When Keller Dover’s (Jackman) daughter and her friend go missing he decides to take matters into his own hands. Meanwhile, hotshot detective Loki (Gyllenhaal) is trying to figure out the puzzle but […]