Since taking to the stage at Comic-Con to reveal that the follow-up to last year’s mega-blockbuster The Avengers is going by the name of Avengers: Age of Ultron, writer-director Joss Whedon has been doing a lot of talking about the 2015 sequel. We’ve already heard the fanboy favourite explaining that the movie will be an […]

Helen Murdoch believes that World War Z has been 2013’s biggest surprise…. We’re nearing the end of July and so far the films of 2013 have been a mixed bag to say the least. Man of Steel was the big “one to watch” this year, yet audiences were divided on it and it became one […]

The Internship, 2013. Directed by Shawn Levy.Starring Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson, Rose Byrne, Aasif Mandvi, Max Minghella, Josh Brener, and Dylan O’Brien. SYNOPSIS: Two salesmen whose careers have been torpedoed by the digital age find their way into a coveted internship at Google, where they must compete with a group of young, tech-savvy geniuses for […]

For those hoping that the recently announced Batman vs Superman film might lead to those rumoured Flash and Justice League films, I’m afraid we have some bad news: Flash is potentially heading to TV. Deadline has reported that The CW and Warner Bros. TV will today be discussing the project and getting a pilot episode […]

For many people, Chris Claremont’s run on X-Men is the series high point. During his 17 years as writer, Claremont wrote or co-wrote many classic X-Men stories, such as “The Dark Phoenix Saga” and “X-Men: Days of Future Past”. He (along with Frank Miller) also created the mini-series that the latest Wolverine movie is based […]

The Lottery of Birth, 2013. Directed by Raoul Martinez and Joshua van Praag. SYNOPSIS: A documentary exploring the social, cultural and psychological elements involved in the shaping of human identities. The Lottery of Birth is the first of three films in a documentary series entitled Creating Freedom, which endeavour to examine modern notions of power […]

Luke Owen looks at Sonic the Hedgehog #251, the final part of Worlds Collide… The biggest crossover event of 2013 ends here with the stunning conclusion to Sonic/Mega Man: Worlds Collide (part twelve of twelve)! After an intense battle, Sonic and Mega Man are at the mercy of Drs. Eggman and Wily and, to make […]

Martin Deer reviews The Treasures of Bruce Lee: The Official Story of the Legendary Martial Artist…. Paul Bowman, author of The Treasures of Bruce Lee, has written several books of which this is the third on Bruce Lee. The first two, Theorizing Bruce Lee and Beyond Bruce Lee, take analytic looks at the cultural impact […]

With Kick-Ass 2 set for release in a couple of weeks, director Jeff Wadlow is currently juggling promotional duties on the comic book sequel with work on another superhero movie as he hammers away at the screenplay for 20th Century Fox’s X-Men spin-off X-Force. During an interview with Screen Rant, Wadlow has explained how the […]

Frances Ha, 2012. Directed by Noah Baumbach.Starring Greta Gerwig, Mickey Sumner, Adam Driver, Michael Zegen, Charlotte d’Amboise and Grace Gummer. SYNOPSIS: A story that follows a New York woman (who doesn’t really have an apartment), apprentices for a dance company (though she’s not really a dancer), and throws herself headlong into her dreams, even as […]