Seconds out… Welcome the 5th annual Superhero Showdown! LAST TIME OUT… As always, we begin with a recap of the past year, which saw new instalments from the three highest-grossing superhero franchises – Batman, Spider-Man and the Marvel Cinematic Universe – as well as another outing for Nicolas Cage’s Johnny Blaze in the sequel Ghost […]

We’re still waiting to hear confirmation on the reports that Harrison Ford is locked in for a return as Han Solo in Disney’s forthcoming sequel Star Wars: Episode VII, but at this point it’s starting to look increasingly likely that the new trilogy will include several familiar faces from the original Star Wars trilogy. In […]

Chris Cooper reviews the latest issue of IDW’s Judge Dredd… “Kidnappers are jacking the DNA of some of Mega-City One’s most elite citizens, then growing clones to torture on live TV — unless the elite pay up big-time. There’s only one Judge tough enough to stop them, and he’s just signed on to be the […]

Side by Side, 2012. Written and Directed by Christopher Kenneally. SYNOPSIS: A documentary investigating the history, process and workflow of both digital and photochemical film creation. The struggle between the old and the new is something which has plagued cinema since the beginning; colour vs. black and white, sound vs. silent and widescreen vs. fullscreen. […]

Trevor Hogg chats with senior visual effects supervisor Dan Glass; visual effects supervisors Stéphane Ceretti, Matt Dessero, Geoffrey Hancock, Alessandro Cioffi, Florian Gellinger, Angela Barson, Clark Parkhurst, Russell Earl and Falk Gärtner; and executive visual effects producer Ismat Zaidi about their work on Cloud Atlas.  Be warned, there are spoilers…  “In a strange way our work relationship […]

Luke Owen reviews the final instalment of the Rage of the Dinobots mini-series…“DINOBOT WAR! GRIMLOCK leads the DINOBOTS against SHOCKWAVE’s troops—and the results won’t be pretty! With SWOOP under SER-KET’s control, it’s an all-or-nothing battle of DINOBOT versus PREDACON—with the fate of CYBERTRON hanging on every punch, blast, jab, and bite!” If you read my review of […]

Luke Owen reviews the penultimate issue of Chris Ryall’s The Hollows… “The Hollows are closing in on Kobayashi, and he’s running out of time to help Lani, Urp, and the rest of the survivors!“ I’ve been very praising of Chris Ryall’s The Hollows. The story has been quite intriguing (if a little bland), the pacing […]

Luke Owen reviews issue #10 of IDW’s Godzilla… Earth is ravaged by the Space Monsters! With Earth’s kaiju trapped on Monster Island, the planet is seemingly doomed. Until Boxer decides to undo all of his hard work and stage the biggest prison break of all time! I feel like a stuck record now with my […]

Trevor Hogg chats with Lucy Alibar about her play being transformed into the Oscar darling Beasts of the Southern Wild, as well as a new project with horror maestro Guillermo del Toro… The Academy Awards were expected to copy the BAFTA nominations; however, the Hollywood event decided to take a left turn and honour an independent film […]

Gary Collinson reviews the first issue of IDW’s relaunched G.I. Joe… “YO JOE! The truth is out: the world knows the G.I. JOE team is real. Now Duke leads his squad directly into the public eye, confronting COBRA on American soil!“ With the cinema release of G.I. Joe: Retaliation now just around the corner, it […]