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After his success with Thor: Ragnarok and his Oscar-winning screenplay for JoJo Rabbit, Taika Waititi could probably do almost any project he wanted (there were recent rumours he might helm a Star Wars movie). But it seems his next project will be two films connected to the world of...
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While one group of survivors has escaped the caverns – though with casualties – Alpha (Samantha Morton) is not wasting any time in making sure the people of Alexandria feel the wrath of the Whisperers. She sends Beta (Ryan Hurst) to track down the errant Gamma (Thora Birch), who...
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If there’s one thing we can all agree on it’s that opinions on sf shows can be divisive. In recent times, Doctor Who and Star Wars have seen their fair share of brickbats, bouquets and binary stars aimed at current efforts and if you can’t please all the people...
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It would seem you can’t keep a good Cop down – one of the most famous being the Beverly Hills variety. There were three comedy-action films in that franchise (released 1984, 1987 and 1994 respectively) that starred Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley, a wise-cracking detective who found himself transplanted...
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Nancy Drew (Kennedy McCann) had it all – she was intelligent enough to show-up the local police’s efforts in finding a missing classmate and eventually became the town of Horseshoe Bay’s own prom-queen. But the death of her mother changed her life and instead of sailing off to a...
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Hayley Atwell has become one of the Marvel Cinematic Universe‘s stalwarts for her role as Peggy Carter, the woman who helped create SHIELD and who seemingly lost the love of her life Steve Rogers / Captain America when his plane crashed during WWII (but, given recent Avengers movies, she...
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The reboot of Tomb Raider / Lara Croft, starring Alicia Vikander (and directed by the suitably named Roar Uthaug) got a mixed reception on its 2018 release – for both the final film and its unfeasibly-necked promotional poster. The movie made an adequate but hardly stellar amount of money...
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When Marvel relaunched the Ms. Marvel comic five years ago, there was more than considerable interest. One site said ‘this may be the most important comic published in 2014‘. Casual onlookers might have wondered why – after all the original character of that name was more a staple of...
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The Fast and the Furious franchise may have d/evolved from a car-based racing thriller into a purely fuel-injection adrenaline rush of posturing and stunt-work but there’s little denying that the mixture was a potent one at the box-office. Essentially critic-proof shenanigans and suspension of disbelief on an ever increasing...
After his success with Thor: Ragnarok and his Oscar-winning screenplay for JoJo Rabbit, Taika Waititi could probably do almost any project he wanted (there were recent rumours he might helm a Star Wars movie). But it seems his next project will be two films connected to the world of...
While one group of survivors has escaped the caverns – though with casualties – Alpha (Samantha Morton) is not wasting any time in making sure the people of Alexandria feel the wrath of the Whisperers. She sends Beta (Ryan Hurst) to track down the errant Gamma (Thora Birch), who...
If there’s one thing we can all agree on it’s that opinions on sf shows can be divisive. In recent times, Doctor Who and Star Wars have seen their fair share of brickbats, bouquets and binary stars aimed at current efforts and if you can’t please all the people...
It would seem you can’t keep a good Cop down – one of the most famous being the Beverly Hills variety. There were three comedy-action films in that franchise (released 1984, 1987 and 1994 respectively) that starred Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley, a wise-cracking detective who found himself transplanted...
Nancy Drew (Kennedy McCann) had it all – she was intelligent enough to show-up the local police’s efforts in finding a missing classmate and eventually became the town of Horseshoe Bay’s own prom-queen. But the death of her mother changed her life and instead of sailing off to a...
Hayley Atwell has become one of the Marvel Cinematic Universe‘s stalwarts for her role as Peggy Carter, the woman who helped create SHIELD and who seemingly lost the love of her life Steve Rogers / Captain America when his plane crashed during WWII (but, given recent Avengers movies, she...
The reboot of Tomb Raider / Lara Croft, starring Alicia Vikander (and directed by the suitably named Roar Uthaug) got a mixed reception on its 2018 release – for both the final film and its unfeasibly-necked promotional poster. The movie made an adequate but hardly stellar amount of money...
When Marvel relaunched the Ms. Marvel comic five years ago, there was more than considerable interest. One site said ‘this may be the most important comic published in 2014‘. Casual onlookers might have wondered why – after all the original character of that name was more a staple of...
The Fast and the Furious franchise may have d/evolved from a car-based racing thriller into a purely fuel-injection adrenaline rush of posturing and stunt-work but there’s little denying that the mixture was a potent one at the box-office. Essentially critic-proof shenanigans and suspension of disbelief on an ever increasing...
