The controversial career of arms trader Viktor Bout was fictionalised in 2005’s Lord Of War , but truth trumps fiction in Tony Gerber and Maxim Pozdorovkin’s enthralling doc. Centred on Bout’s entrapment and trial by America, the directors dare to ponder how villainous this “merchant of death” was. Such sympathy …

Batman: Assault On Arkham DVD review . This animated movie is set in the Arkham videogame universe during the five year gap between Arkham Origins and Arkham Asylum , but aside from the name the two share little DNA. There’s no consistency in character design, for example; Amanda Waller seems …

Eli Roth’s forthcoming cannibal drama The Green Inferno looks to have hit a fairly major snag, with distributor Open Road Films having postponed the film’s release. Deadline reports that the delay is a result of financier Worldview Entertainment getting cold feet over the publicity commitment struck by its former CEO, …

The Dark Knight – Six Flags, USA The Ride: A family-friendly ‘Wild Mouse’ roller coaster, The Dark Knight is a dark ride (it’s indoors) located at the Six Flags theme parks in the U.S. The Movie Connection: The ride story hooks in neatly to the movie (the ride launched to …

Sex and video games traditionally blend as well as a petrol-infused crème brulee. They don’t look quite right, cause a hell of an unpleasant mess when things heat up, and leave a really weird smell that won’t go away for days. But why? After all, we’re firmly ensconced within the …

Streaming games you don’t own on your Sony devices? That sounds pretty sweet, and it’s what PlayStation Now offers with its catalogue of rentals. Now that it’s in open beta, any and all PSN users can check it out. At its core, PS Now is an all-access pass to Playstation’s …

Tom Hiddleston’s Loki is one of the high-points of Joss Whedon’s Avengers. The ‘puny God’ scene is arguably the film’s best moment. Those are just facts. And it turns out Tom knew that would be the case from the moment he picked up Whedon’s script. In fact, he got so …

Quentin Tarantino has revealed that his original vision for Kill Bill , subtitled The Whole Bloody Affair , is on its way to cinemas in 2015. Before bowing to studio pressure and splitting it in half, Tarantino had originally planned to release Kill Bill as one, ultra-long film, including a …

Edgar Wright is busy filling up his slate in the wake of his Ant-Man departure, with Fox having recruited the director to helm their forthcoming young adult adventure, Grasshopper Jungle . Adapted from the novel by Andrew Smith, the film will follow a classic coming of age story with a …

One of the more leftfield announcements at this year’s Comic-Con came from Sam Raimi, who announced that an Evil Dead TV show is something he is currently working on. The director revealed that he is currently writing the new show with his brother Ted, and original star Bruce Campbell, with …