Our weekly round up of the latest stories from the world of screen superheroes, including The Wolverine, X-Men: Days of Future Past, X-Force, The Fantastic Four, Kick-Ass 2, The Avengers: Age of Ultron, Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Superman […]

Villordsutch confesses his love for Mamma Mia!… I have on occasion been called a “film snob”, and I freely admit that my snorts of disgust are not restrained when the likes Taken, Taken 2 and Gerard Butler are heard.  I have on occasion been known to argue with people when the mention they’ve watched (for […]

With Tom Cruise (Edge of Tomorrow) and Leonardo DiCaprio (Django Unchained) both passing on the role, director Matthew Vaughn (X-Men: First Class) has turned to a comic book movie veteran for the villain in his upcoming adaptation of The Secret Service, with Variety revealing that Samuel L. Jackson (The Avengers, Captain America: The Winter Soldier) […]

Anthony Stokes on what The Wolverine got right…. The Wolverine has been released to mild critical and commercial success. It’s certainly not setting the world on fire, but the general consensus seems to be “I’m glad I saw it” and “it’s okay”. As easy as it is to be cynical – and as much as […]

With Matt Damon seemingly still against a return to the Bourne franchise, Universal Pictures has decided to push ahead with a fifth instalment in the spy series with Deadline revealing that the studio has hired Anthony Peckham (Sherlock Holmes) to pen a second outing for Jeremy Renner’s Aaron Cross, star of last year’s spin-off The […]

Robb Ghag reviews Batman Annual #2… “A special ZERO YEAR tie-in! Bruce Wayne’s first year as the Dark Knight has just barely begun…and already dangerous elements are coalescing, leading Bruce toward his final destiny.” Scott Snyder once again delivers in the second Batman annual from the New 52 Universe, titled “Cages”. Once again, we are […]

Anghus Houvouras is baffled by director Lee Daniels’ recent comments in promotion of his new film The Butler… I’ll never pretend to be any kind of expert on the subject of racial diversity in Hollywood. However, there’s been a slew of comments recently from director Lee Daniels about his new film that I found so […]

Anthony Stokes thinks that The Avengers: Age of Ultron has the potential to be the best comic book movie ever… Last year The Avengers arrived in theaters and devoured every movie released that month. I try to refrain from saying everybody loved something but you’d be hard pressed to find somebody who didn’t enjoy the […]

Luke Owen reviews the latest issue of SEX from Image Comics… Simon Cooke’s night out has disastrous consequences! And not just socially. But, hey, at least he’s trying! Meanwhile, life in Saturn City’s criminal underworld rolls on… just not as smoothly as expected. I complained in the review of the last issue of SEX that […]

Pinch of salt time everybody. The Independent, arbiter of comic book movie news, has some possibly tasty information. “A source close to Frank Miller, who also has Sin City and 300 sequels in the pipeline, told the Independent: ‘Frank had no idea the announcement in San Diego was going to happen so it did come […]