Anghus Houvouras wants to know why all superheroes have taken to striking the same pose…. I’m not sure if this particular trend has ever been talked about at great length. It first became glaring while watching Edgar Wright’s test footage for Ant-Man. When the character emerges from the elevator and lands on the ground, he […]

Luke Owen reviews Sonic Universe #51, part two of the World’s Collide crossover… There are strange things afoot as Mega Man’s world is menaced by a super-fast, blue attacker. Sonic’s world is being stalked by a blue-armored figure with a cannon for an arm. Could these mysterious villains be Sonic and Mega Man? Or are […]

Something in the Air, 2012. Written and Directed by Olivier Assayas.Starring Clément Métayer, Lola Créton, Felix Armand, Carole Combes, India Menuez and Hugo Conzelmann. SYNOPSIS: An 18-year-old man reacts to the social changes of late 1960’s Europe.  Something in the Air initially presents us with an idyllic version of French student life in the 70s, […]

Villordsutch reviews Off-Grid #1 – The Resistance… “Off-Grid revolves around a civil war that breaks out after the nations grid system is shut down for three weeks and the government mandates all civilians to report to the major city ‘habitation zones’.“ When someone messages you via Twitter asking if you’d like a free copy of […]

Olympus Has Fallen, 2013. Directed by Antoine Fuqua.Starring Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Finley Jacobsen, Dylan McDermott, Angela Bassett, Rick Yune, Melissa Leo and Radha Mitchell. SYNOPSIS: Disgraced former Presidential guard Mike Banning finds himself trapped inside the White House in the wake of a terrorist attack; using his inside knowledge, Banning works with […]

Well, the dark days of having to wait three years between Star Wars instalments are over, with Walt Disney Pictures announcing at CinemaCon yesterday that it plans to release a new Star Wars movie every year, beginning with Star Wars: Episode VII in the summer of 2015. Since the announcement that Disney had purchased Lucasfilm, […]

Throughout April, we’re counting down to the release of Marvel’s Iron Man 3 with our picks for the Greatest Comic Book Movies of All Time; here’s #9…. Batman, 1989. Directed by Tim Burton.Starring Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl, Pat Hingle, Billy Dee Williams, Tracey Walter, Michael Gough and Jack Palance. After the […]

Much Ado About Nothing, 2012. Directed by Joss Whedon.Starring Nathan Fillion, Clark Gregg, Ashley Johnson, Alexis Denisof, Amy Acker, Fran Kranz, Sean Maher, Riki Lindhome and Spencer Treat Clark. SYNOPSIS: A modern retelling of Shakespeare’s classic comedy about two pairs of lovers with different takes on romance and a way with words. You probably know […]

Luke Owen reports from today’s London press conference for Iron Man 3…. Not even Baroness Thatcher’s funeral could stop the stars of Iron Man 3 as they descended upon the luxurious Dorchester Hotel to promote the first part of Phase Two of Marvel’s Cinematic Universe.  In attendance were stars Robert Downey Jr. (Tony Stark / […]

Rupert Wyatt (Rise of the Planet of the Apes, The Escapist) is attached to direct an adaptation of the novel Night Film for Chernin Entertainment. The noir thriller, written by author Marisha Peel (whose best-selling debut was Special Topics in Calamity Physics), is due out from Random House in August. The story follows investigative journalist […]