This article contains spoilers for Man of Steel. And technically also World Trade Center…. Why is the Superhero film so prevalent in today’s age? There are two ideas to explain their success. One, that technology has finally caught up with comic books’ imaginations. And two, that the Iron Men and Dark Knights are really modern […]

It was widely reported a couple of weeks back that director Zack Snyder and screenwriter David S. Goyer had signed on to fast track a sequel to Man of Steel through development for release in 2014, and while we’re yet to hear anything official from Warner Bros., that hasn’t stopped the rumour mill from kicking […]

Foxy Brown, 1974. Directed by Jack Hill.Starring Pam Grier, Antonio Fargas, Peter Brown, Terry Carter, Kathryn Loder, Harry Holcombe and Sid Haig. SYNOPSIS: A voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend. “She’s brown sugar and spice but if you don’t […]

Portlandia: Seasons One and Two Created by and starring Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein. SYNOPSIS: A character-based sketch show taking place in “Portlandia”, a dreamy and absurd hipster rendering of Portland, Oregon where 90’s culture reigns supreme and political correctness is all the rage. Going in to Portlandia, I knew nothing about this series. Never […]

Before Midnight, 2013. Directed by Richard Linklater.Starring Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, Ariane Labed and Athina Rachel Tsangari. SYNOPSIS: We meet Jesse and Celine nine years on in Greece. Almost two decades have passed since their first meeting on that train bound for Vienna. With Before Midnight, director Richard Linklater and actors Ethan Hawke […]

Anthony Stokes has some issues with the ending to Man of Steel.… It seems like nobody can agree these days and depending who you ask, Man of Steel is either the best movie of the summer or the biggest disappointment. There’s been some major criticism towards the ending, although some of it is just fanboys […]

Simon Columb attends BFI Southbank’s Rita Hayworth retrospective…In The Shawshank Redemption (titled Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption in Stephen King’s Different Seasons) there is a moment whereby we see a scene from Gilda. Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) attempts to ask Red (Morgan Freeman) to bring him “Rita Hayworth” but before he can ask, Red […]

Director Roland Emmerich (White House Down) has spent a lot of time talking up the sequels to the sci-fi box office smash Independence Day over the past few months, and now that 20th Century Fox has set a July 3rd 2015 release date for the first of the two follow ups – tentatively titled ID […]

Last month William Fichtner (The Dark Knight, Drive Angry) joined the cast of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in “a lead role with iconic stature in the Turtles’ mythology,” leading many to speculate that director Jonathan Leibesman (Wrath of the Titans) and producer Michael Bay (Transformers 4) had found their Shredder for the live-action reboot. Well, […]

World War Z, 2013. Directed by Marc Forster.Starring Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, Daniella Kertesz, Fana Mokoena, James Badge Dale, David Morse, Matthew Fox, Abigail Hargrove, Sterling Jerins, and Fabrizio Zacharee Guidoas. SYNOPSIS: United Nations employee Gerry Lane traverses the world in a race against time to stop the Zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and […]