No two subgenres are currently ruling the worldwide box office more consistently than superhero and young adult. So for all the backtalk about Sony playing bitter second fiddle to Marvel, their rebooted Spider-Man series does have one major advantage over the competition in that it combines both. It’s the only …
Read More »Wednesday Link-A-Mania
Game Of Thrones , Guardians Of The Galaxy , Doctor Who , Joe Hill’s Horns and Vertigo are all hitting the news today! • Variety confirms Game of Thrones has, unsurprisingly, been renewed for two more seasons. The return of the series to HBO on Sunday attracted the largest audience …
Read More »LEGO The Hobbit Minikit locations guide
The LEGO series has always been packed full of collectibles, and LEGO The Hobbit (opens in new tab) is no exception. This entry covers the first two films in The Hobbit trilogy–the third will be added later–so that leaves us with two movies’ worth of levels full of hidden goodies. …
Read More »The King And The Mockingbird review
A tyrannical king living in a labyrinthine castle comes between a beautiful shepherdess and a brave, good-hearted chimney sweep. Only a plucky mockingbird can save the day. Sixty years in the making (it was started in 1948, partially finished in 1952 and reworked by director Paul Grimault for a limited …
Read More »Pioneer review
Set in the ‘70s and early ‘80S, this conspiracy thriller recounts the true-life tale of the Norwegian divers who risked their lives to lay a pipeline on the ocean floor when oil and gas were discovered in the North Sea. Headhunters ’ Aksel Hennie rocks a quality moustache as star …
Read More »How inconvenient: Titanfall on Xbox 360 looks perfectly fine
Footage has emerged of the Xbox 360 version of Titanfall, as reported by CVG News (opens in new tab). And my professional opinion is that it looks… well, fine, actually. In fact, it looks a lot like Titanfall. You know, the one that Xbox One has been pinning so many …
Read More »10 Pokdex entries that make absolutely no sense
Something’s very wrong here For as charming as the Pokmon universe might be, there’s no denying that some things simply don’t add up. There are weird inconsistencies, strange occurrences, and plot holes that haven’t been addressed. Hell, if anything, even more have surfaced: Pokmon X and Y randomly added the …
Read More »A Story Of Children And Film review
Mark Cousins follows his 15-hour opus The Story Of Film with a comparatively bite-sized discourse on how world cinema has depicted childhood. The result is a dizzying compilation of clips connected, rather preciously, by footage of his niece and nephew playing with marbles. Cousins introduces excerpts from some 53 titles …
Read More »Bryan Singer defends X-Men: Days Of Future Pasts mega cast
In issue 218 of Total Film magazine , director Bryan Singer has hit back at criticisms regarding the ginormous cast of X-Men: Days Of Future Past (opens in new tab) . Inside the issue – which is available for just £1.99 on your iPad (opens in new tab) – Singer …
Read More »Arrow 2.15 “The Promise” REVIEW
Episode 2.15 Writers: Jake Coburn & Ben Sokolowski Director: Glen Winter THE ONE WHERE: As Oliver confronts Slade in his own home we flash back to the storming of the Amazo… THE VERDICT: I recently moaned that the island scenes have felt fiftful and inconclusive this season. “The Promise” addresses …
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