Anghus Houvouras reviews the first two issues of Marvel NOW!’s FF… “In the Fantastic Four’s absence, a hand-picked substitute squad—Ant-Man, Medusa, She-Hulk and Miss Thing—must guard Earth and the fledgling Future Foundation for four minutes. What could go wrong?“ I love a good comic book that isn’t afraid to not take itself too seriously.  Mike […]

Nafissa Jeetoo gets ready for the apocalypse by looking at ways the world might end according to the movies… December 21st 2012, the last day on the Mayan calendar. It seems the apocalypse is now. But what is an apocalypse meant to be? We live our lives in fear of death, danger and doomsday, but […]

This will come as a surprise to pretty much no one after the announcement that Disney had purchased the rights to the Star Wars franchise, but it seems that the comics are moving over to Marvel (also owned by the House of Mouse) in 2014. According to reliable Disney blog Blue Sky Disney, there will […]

Luke Owen reviews the latest issue of Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye… AUTOBOTS VERSUS DECEPTICONS! The crew of the Lost Light confronts a band of rogue DECEPTICONS—with terrible consequences. “As an AUTOBOT slips closer to death, a single decision sets in motion a chain of events that might just spell the end for RODIMUS […]

Luke Owen reviews the latest issue of Mars Attacks… “An exciting new story arc starts here! As human ramp up their defenses, the Martians unleash a new weapon from their arsenal… the freeze ray! Don’t miss any of the action in this runaway hit series!” IDW’s Mars Attacks re-launch for me has been a bit […]

Jack Reacher, 2012. Directed by Christopher McQuarrie.Starring Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Richard Jenkins, Werner Herzog, David Oyelowo and Jai Courtney. SYNOPSIS:A homicide investigator digs deeper into a case involving a trained military sniper who shot five random victims. Jack Reacher is something of a rare treat for 2012. It’s a film which gets its style […]

Chris Cooper reviews the second issue of IDW’s Judge Dredd… “In Mega-City one, Judges ARE the law. But what happens when a veteran Judge goes bad? And he’s so skilled at hiding his misdeeds that even Judge Dredd is unable to dig up the evidence he needs? Looks like it’s time to choose psis… from […]

Bryan Singer (X-Men, Superman Returns) has secured a deal to develop, produce and perhaps even direct a reboot of the classic TV show The Twilight Zone. According to Deadline, Singer has struck the deal with CBS TV Studios who have the rights to Rod Serling’s original series. There is currently no one attached to write […]

At a special screening and Q&A session of Marvel’s The Avengers, writer/director Joss Whedon spoke at length about the movie including which characters didn’t make the final cut and what we can expect for the 2015 sequel. “There was a little bit of time where we thought we might not actually get Scarlett [Johansson],” The […]

Trevor Hogg chats with Jack Fisk, who was born 67 years ago today, about the craft of production design, and his collaborations with Terrence Malick, David Lynch and Paul Thomas Anderson… “My mother was artistic in a time that didn’t encourage women to take on a career of their own so she always had me […]