Not content with playing a younger Patrick Stewart as Charles Xavier in X-Men: First Class and next year’s X-Men: Days of Future Past, James McAvoy has now expressed his desire to portray a young Ian McKellen. However, he’s not looking to step on Michael Fassbender’s toes by taking on the dual roles of Professor X […]

Our weekly round up of the latest news stories from the world of screen superheroes, including Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Thor: The Dark World, Iron Man 3, Spider-Man, Man of Steel, Justice League, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, DC Nation, Arrow and more… Welcome to the 100th edition of The […]

Simon Columb attends the Roman Polanski retrospective at BFI Southbank… Roman Polanski remains a fascinating filmmaker to this day. Alongside Andrej Wajda and Jerzy Skolimowski, Polanski came to the fore in the late 1950s in Poland. The BFI in London are screening all of Polanski’s films during January and February 2013 and throughout January, essays […]

Luke Owen on the latest issue of Godzilla: The Half Century War… “New technologies and new recruits lead the AMF now, while Ota and Kentaro are stuck watching. But when a new threat comes to town from space, technology and young blood mean nothing. Will the grizzled vets be able to save the day? Don’t […]

Killer Joe, 2011. Directed by William Friedkin. Starring Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Juno Temple, Gina Gershon and Thomas Haden Church. SYNOPSIS: When a debt puts a young man’s life in danger, he puts a hit out on his evil mother in order to collect on her life insurance.   2012 was a great year for […]

A couple of days ago, Joseph Gordon-Levitt joined the possibilities for James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy and now a few more names join the list for the roles of Star-Lord and Drax The Destroyer. Joining Gordon-Levitt (The Dark Knight Rises), Jim Sturgess (Cloud Atlas) and Zachary Levi (Chuck) for the role of Star-Lord is […]

Interesting news has emerged that could either turn out to be comedy gold or one of the biggest mistakes in TV history. According to Deadline, Kelsey Grammer (Frasier, Boss) and Martin Lawrence (Bad Boys, Big Momma’s House) are in talks to star in a new TV comedy together. Whilst this seems like a rather peculiar […]

Paul Risker on the year-long international celebration of the distinguished Russian film director Andrei Konchalovsky… A retrospective of a distinguished Russian director may not be the first thing to come to mind if one is to stop and reflect on the year was 2012. Marvel’s The Avengers was a barnstorming success, Christopher Nolan’s The Dark […]

Back in August of last year, filmmaker David Cronenberg (The Fly, Cosmopolis) caused some upset among comic book movie fans when he spoke of his dislike for the genre, stating that it’s “for kids” and “people who are saying The Dark Knight Rises is supreme cinema art, I don’t think they know what the f**k […]

The Day, 2011. Directed by Douglas Aarniokoski.Starring Shawn Ashmore, Shannyn Sossamon, Ashley Bell, Cory Hardrict, Dominic Monaghan and Brianna Barnes. SYNOPSIS: A group of post-apocalyptic survivors struggle to stay alive in a land plagued by unbearable conditions and predatory gangs… Along with their more carefully coiffed cousins the emo-vampire story, apocalyptic zombie movies have been […]