Despite garnering fairly lukewarm reviews across the board, Alice In Wonderland was hugely lucrative for Disney, so much so that a sequel always seemed inevitable. The original’s $1 billion worldwide take was at least partly down the presence of star name Johnny Depp, and so Disney will be thrilled to …

True Blood 6.04 “At Last” TV REVIEW (opens in new tab) Episode 6.04 Writer: Alexander Woo Director: Anthony Hemingway THE ONE WHERE Sookie and Jason (independently) leap to the conclusion that Ben is Warlow; Andy’s faerie offspring enter their troublesome teens; Eric sires Governor Burrell’s daughter; lots of men strip …

Konami and Bohemia Interactive have become the latest gaming companies to be targeted by hackers. Just one week after Nintendo confirmed that hackers had managed to break into the Club Nintendo website on more than 23,000 occasions in the previous month, Konami and Bohemia said they’d detected unauthorised website logins …

Pacific Rim imagines a world in which humans pilot giant robots (Jaegers) to fight off the onslaught of humungous interdimensional aliens (Kaiju), hellbent on ravaging Earth. Being a Guillermo del Toro picture, there’s a ridiculous amount of detail loitering in the background. From the tech that goes into building the …

The new head of Xbox is 20-year Microsoft employee Julie Larson-Green. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today announced a large-scale reorganization for the software giant in a letter to employees (opens in new tab), including a new Devices and Studios Engineering Group responsible for Xbox. Larson-Green will be accountable for all …

Continuum 2.09 “Seconds” (opens in new tab) Episode 2.09 Writer: Raul Sanchez Inglis Director: Michael Rohl THE ONE WHERE Julian is released from jail and instantly finds himself being courted by the various factions of Liber8. Before he can choose his future, however, he has to deal with the fact …

Further proof that kids these days are a bunch of little shits comes from Ciaran Foy’s fresh, eerie twist on the urban horror, which sees young agoraphobic father (Aneurin Barnard, excellent) tormented by feral youths who seem barely human. Inspired by Foy’s own experience of being attacked, Citadel is at …

For movie fans, Pixar’s Californian studios are infamous. As the place that birthed some of the greatest animations of all time, a peek behind the Steve Jobs-designed doors is a rarity. So you can understand why we were more than a little excited to visit the Emeryville base for an …

As Falling Skies season 3 prepares to launch in the UK, SFX speaks to legendary creature performer Doug Jones about playing Volm warrior Cochise, new extraterrestrial ally in the war against the invaders… What was your first step in actually building this character? Was there something in the script that …

Dumb & Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003) The Prequel: Ever wondered how two idiots like Harry and Lloyd possibly found each other? Well, it all started in a Special Needs class in the 1980s… Why It’s Grim: You want dumb? You got it. This lazy cash-grab is resolutely bad …