“You’re all hearing this the same way?” It’s 1973, and the streets of New York are swamped with the morning upchuck of a hungover sexual awakening. Vinyl, brainchild of Mick Jagger, Martin Scorsese, Terence Winter, and Rich Cohen, climbs deep into the world of record production in the skin-submersible of one Richard “Richie” Finestra, protagonist and (briefly) narrator. […]
Check out this huge gallery of images from Warner Bros’ forthcoming superhero team-up movie Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, which is directed by Zack Snyder and stars Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Gal Gadot, Amy Adams, Laurence Fishburne, Jesse Eisenberg, Jeremy Irons and Holly Hunter. Fearing the actions of a god-like super hero left unchecked, Gotham City’s own […]
“SG WAS HERE” It starts and ends with the same conundrum. When the rules say no to us, whether it’s an alarmed security door barring our escape or a seemingly purposeless warning label on an otherwise normal light switch, what do we do, and why? How do we maintain our identities in a world trying […]
To celebrate the release of Alienate – on DVD 22nd February – we have a copy to giveaway! Alienate is stacked from start to finish with thrilling suspense that will have you dusting off your copies of The X-Files to ask yourself the all time important question, do you believe? Blending the suspense of Monsters […]
“Thank you for being my people.” Gravity Falls, after two seasons of the best-looking backgrounds, liveliest characters, and all-out most infuriating production schedules of all time, is off the air. It isn’t a perfect finale, nor is it a particularly daring one, but it has heart, horror, and an end-of-summer bittersweetness that gives its many indulgences […]
For those of us that grew up in the 80s (and spent their teen years living in video stores in the 90s) Paul Reubens and his creation Pee-Wee Herman were something of an icon. Well it’s been almost 30 years since the release of Big Top Pee-Wee – which debuted in 1988 – and now, […]
Talking in Circles is a pop culture talk show/podcast where hosts Dan, Greg, and Chuck wax poetic about comic books, movies, television shows, and pretty much anything else in geek culture. Come for the witty banter stay for the exciting games, hilarious skits, and “crazy but true” news stories. This week’s theme: Superheroes! Superheroes, superheroes, […]
So Street Fighter V is finally out and when the servers are up we’ve all been playing it. You’d have to be hidden under a rock not to know about the lack of an arcade mode, and restricted Story Mode so is it worth playing now? Here are my thoughts. I’m not a social gamer, […]
Studiocanal have today unveiled the official trailer for Bastille Day, a new high-octane action thriller starring Idris Elba (Luther, Avengers: Age Of Ultron), Richard Madden (Game Of Thrones), Kelly Reilly (Eden Lake) and Charlotte Le Bon (The Hundred-Foot Journey). Michael Mason (Richard Madden, ‘Game Of Thrones’) is an American pickpocket living in Paris who finds […]
Stars: Catherine Annette, Nick Principe, Nikki Bohm, David Atlas | Written and Directed by Dpyx Nobody Can Cool takes a simple concept and uses it to great effect. An independent film in every sense, it is evidence that you do not need big budget dollars to create unnerving tension and edge of your seat excitement. For those […]
The latest film from director Johannes Roberts, the man behind the excellent Frightfest flick F, The Other Side of the Door stars Sarah Wayne Callies and Jeremy Sisto; and tells the story of a family whose idyllic existence is destroyed when a tragic accident takes the life of their young son. The inconsolable mother (Callies) learns of an […]
Written by Nick Abadzis | Art by Elena Casagrande | Published by Titan Comics | Format: Paperback, 32pp If I said I have been a little disappointed so far by Nick Abadzis’s run on this book that would probably be a little harsh. It’s not a bad book at all, but for me it has […]
Following its premiere at the Berlin Film Festival over the weekend, eOne have released the new trailer and UK poster to Jeff Nichols’ sci-fi thriller Midnight Special, which stars long-time collaborator Michael Shannon (Take Shelter, 99 Homes) alongside a brilliant ensemble cast including Adam Driver (Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Girls), Kirsten Dunst (Fargo, Spider-Man), Joel […]
“I am getting a taste of what Agent Scully must suffer.” Boy, this season is one wild ride. Ups and downs have abounded and here on the precipice of its foreshortened run there’s still no clear thrust as to where it’s all heading and why any of it was dragged up from cold storage for […]
Starring (the voices of) Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Seth MacFarlane, Scarlett Johansson, John C. Reilly, Taron Egerton and Tori Kelly, Sing is a musical comedy about finding the shining star that lives inside all of us. Featuring more than 85 hit songs, Sing is written and directed by Garth Jennings (Son of Rambow, The Hitchhiker’s […]
Stars: Joanna Ignaczewska, Louis Labovitch, Akira Koieyama, Genevieve Sibayan, Jessica Jay, Haruka Abe, Morgan Ackermann, Bookie Anifowose | Written and Directed by Christopher Butler When watching a low-budget genre movie it’s always a little disheartening to discover that the film’s execution doesn’t quite live up to its ambitions. Sadly, such was the case with […]
The ever-prolific J.J. Abrams has seemingly not rested on his laurels post-Star Wars, producing a sequel (or is it part of a bigger “Cloverfield Anthology”? – noone knows) to his found-footage hit Cloverfield – entitled 10 Cloverfield Lane. This “sequel” (which looks to be taking place at the same time as the first film) is […]
It’s safe to say there has been a recent resurgence in tabletop gaming, RPGs, board games, card games – you name it and nerds like me are playing it. Whereas gaming for the longest time remained the domain of the hardcore gamer, tabletop gaming and in particular card games have made the move into the […]
“Yeah, Mighty Monarch. My wife invited me.” Nothing in The Venture Bros is merely exceptional. If there’s one thing the show does consistently, it’s portraying a world where even the most astonishing lives are riddled with fear, insecurity, fuckups, and tedium. ‘Faking Miracles’ is a quiet case study in how the glossy exterior is maintained through hack-work, […]
The pitfalls of Hollywood creates an American Psycho in the unnerving Deadly Famous, out this month from Indican Pictures. The film stars Jackie Moore (Pernicious) and DTV stalwart Eric Roberts (The Human Centipede III) in Jim Lane & Eric Troop’s sexy and frightening hand grenade of spine-chilling suspense and intrigue. Hiding under a mask of […]
Stars: Aaron Paul, Norman Reedus, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Anthony Mackie, Teresa Palmer, Kate Winslet, Gal Gadot, Casey Affleck, Woody Harrelson, Michael Kenneth Williams, Clifton Collins Jr. | Written by Matt Cook | Directed by John Hillcoat You can’t fault the line-up that Australian director, John Hillcoat has pulled together for Triple 9. In what appears to be a Breaking […]
Written by Alex Irvine | Art by John Aggs | Published by Titan Comics | Format: Paperback, 32pp For those not in the know, Deus Ex is a series of first person computer games dating back to 2000. They all take place in the near future, in a kind of slightly clichéd dystopian cyberpunk society. […]
