Gary Collinson reviews G.I. Joe #5 (minor spoilers to follow)… “Homefront reaches its explosive conclusion and we do mean explosive: If Baroness can’t hold the city of Warrenton, no one will! And the fate of the entire G.I. Joe team rests in the hands of its newest and most inexperienced member, Hashtag. What will she […]

Anghus Houvouras believes that hardcore fans are killing the potential of superhero movies…. Warning – spoilers ahead… Comic book adaptations are rife with challenges.  Making a $200 million epic that pleases everyone has to be a thankless task.  You’re never going to please everyone.  Especially those hardcore fanboys who believe they know best.  I’ve read […]

Villordsutch reviews Doctor Who Vol. 3 #10…  “The missing Doctor has been found! But now the TARDIS has vanished, leaving him and his companion stranded in a strange dimension with seemingly infinite skies!” A word to describe this comic is “packed”.  In just under 30 pages you get so much story that you’ll lose time. […]

Despite the fact that the second instalment in its rebooted franchise, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, doesn’t hit cinemas for close to a year, Sony Pictures has today announced its securing the long-term future of the Spidey series with not one but two further sequels, set to hit screens in 2016 and 2018 respectively. “Spider-Man is […]

The Kid Stays in the Picture, 2002. Directed by Nanette Burstein and Brett Morgen. SYNOPSIS: Documentary about legendary Paramount producer Robert Evans (the film shares the same name as Evans’ famous 1994 autobiography). Robert Evans was once the most revered man in Hollywood. Throughout the late 60s and most of the 70s, Evans’ role as […]

To the Wonder, 2012. Directed by Terrence Malick.Starring Ben Affleck, Javier Bardem, Rachel McAdams, Olga Kurylenko, Charles Baker, Romina Mondello, Cassidee Vandalia and Darryl Cox. SYNOPSIS: A man is torn between two loves: the European woman who comes to United States to be with him, and the old flame he reconnects with from his hometown. […]

Parks and Recreation – Season Two Created by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur.Starring Amy Poehler, Chris Pratt, Rashida Jones, Rob Lowe, Aziz Ansari, Paul Schneider, Nick Hofferman and Aubrey Plaza. SYNOPSIS: Leslie Knope, Pawnee of Indiana’s most enthusiastic public servant, solves all of her town’s problems- hosting a telethon, ridding the golf course of possums […]

Spider Baby, 1968 Directed by Jack HillStarring Lon Chaney Jr., Sid Haig, Carol Ohmart, Quinn Redeker, Beverly Washburn, Jill Banner, Mary Mitchell, Karl Schanzer SYNOPSIS: In a dilapidated rural mansion, the last generation of the degenerate, inbred Merrye family lives with the inherited curse of a disease that causes them to mentally regress from the […]

Mama, 2013. Directed by Andres Muschietti.Starring Jessica Chastain, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Isabelle Nélisse, and Megan Charpentier. SYNOPSIS: Annabel and Lucas are faced with the challenge of raising his young nieces that were left alone in the forest for 5 years…. but how alone were they?   “A ghost is an emotion bent out of shape, condemned to […]

Now that Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel is off to a fine start at the box office, having posted a record June opening in the States, it would seem the stage is set for Warner Bros. to launch its long-awaited DC movie universe. We’ve already heard that Snyder and screenwriter David S. Goyer have been […]