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“I feel the need – the need for speed…” is probably one of cinema’s best-known movie taglines and 1986’s Top Gun has, in many ways, remained a benchmark for a certain type of cinema. The Tom Cruise vehicle was the kind of testosterone, high-risks story that combines the bonafide...
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Local Kyoto authorities and news-services have reported that an unidentified male in his 40s entered the three-storey premises of respected studio Kyoto Animation (KyoAni) early Thursday morning local time and after shouting ‘Drop Dead’ several times, deliberately set fires with gasoline and ignited them. The fire – one of...
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For some time, New Zealand-born director Taika Waititi’s name has been associated with the much-discussed live-action version of cult eastern sci-fi epic Akira – originally the manga story and then as an ambitious animated film released in 1988. Though no names had been announced, it was known Waititi was...
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007 to be black and female??? Yes it’s the kind of click-bait news designed to cause much gnashing of teeth and angst among the die-hard party-faithful who haven’t actually read the important specific detail beyond that headline… For several years there’s been talk about the next Bond being black...
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Most horror fans will attest to the fact that 2016’s Train to Busan (directed by Yeong Sang-ho) was one of the best and – ironically – ‘fresh’ zombie movies to come out in a long while. None of the shuffling, shambling cadavers of The Walking Dead here, but fast-moving,...
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Michael Chiklis, who moved from family-friendly fare such as The Commish to make such an impact in FX‘s The Shield – before going on to star in projects including two Fantastic Four movies (as Ben Grimm) and more recently appeared in Gotham, is about to executive produce and star...
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Of late, Disney has been looking back at its many prestigious animated hits – such as Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin and reviving them as live-action productions (or in the case of the imminent The Lion King, a different, CGI approach). The next production will be a version...
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Robert Kirkman is the man who has penned every single issue of The Walking Dead since it began in 2003 (first with artist Tony Moore and then, for most of the run with Charlie Adlard). In an industry of reboots, stunt variant covers, fake ‘deaths’ and ever-changing creative teams,...
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It looks as if yet another film franchise may be heading to television. After ten Hell-raising widescreen chapters, Pinhead and his horror cohorts will likely make it to the smaller screen in a version of the Hellraiser mythology. Ready Player One producer Dan Farah and It producer Roy Lee...
“I feel the need – the need for speed…” is probably one of cinema’s best-known movie taglines and 1986’s Top Gun has, in many ways, remained a benchmark for a certain type of cinema. The Tom Cruise vehicle was the kind of testosterone, high-risks story that combines the bonafide...
Local Kyoto authorities and news-services have reported that an unidentified male in his 40s entered the three-storey premises of respected studio Kyoto Animation (KyoAni) early Thursday morning local time and after shouting ‘Drop Dead’ several times, deliberately set fires with gasoline and ignited them. The fire – one of...
For some time, New Zealand-born director Taika Waititi’s name has been associated with the much-discussed live-action version of cult eastern sci-fi epic Akira – originally the manga story and then as an ambitious animated film released in 1988. Though no names had been announced, it was known Waititi was...
007 to be black and female??? Yes it’s the kind of click-bait news designed to cause much gnashing of teeth and angst among the die-hard party-faithful who haven’t actually read the important specific detail beyond that headline… For several years there’s been talk about the next Bond being black...
Most horror fans will attest to the fact that 2016’s Train to Busan (directed by Yeong Sang-ho) was one of the best and – ironically – ‘fresh’ zombie movies to come out in a long while. None of the shuffling, shambling cadavers of The Walking Dead here, but fast-moving,...
Michael Chiklis, who moved from family-friendly fare such as The Commish to make such an impact in FX‘s The Shield – before going on to star in projects including two Fantastic Four movies (as Ben Grimm) and more recently appeared in Gotham, is about to executive produce and star...
Of late, Disney has been looking back at its many prestigious animated hits – such as Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin and reviving them as live-action productions (or in the case of the imminent The Lion King, a different, CGI approach). The next production will be a version...
Robert Kirkman is the man who has penned every single issue of The Walking Dead since it began in 2003 (first with artist Tony Moore and then, for most of the run with Charlie Adlard). In an industry of reboots, stunt variant covers, fake ‘deaths’ and ever-changing creative teams,...
It looks as if yet another film franchise may be heading to television. After ten Hell-raising widescreen chapters, Pinhead and his horror cohorts will likely make it to the smaller screen in a version of the Hellraiser mythology. Ready Player One producer Dan Farah and It producer Roy Lee...
In 1955… Lee Shaw has to make some hard decisions about protecting Keiko and keeping the future of Monarch assured, wondering how long it may be between doing what...
The end is nigh… but don’t worry too much: HBO‘s critically-acclaimed The Last of Us adaptation is safe and well (or as safe and well as apocalypses get) and ...
It’s been speculated for a long time, but Marvel has been keeping a close eye on the court case involving actor Jonthan Majors (Creed III). The actor, who had...
The very name of Dungeons and Dragons is forged in fire, the stuff of legends and perhaps a few stereotypes. But in the modern era, it’s fast becoming a...