Some of you remember my short-lived, irregular column ‘In Defence Of The Reboot’ from those halcyon days when this fair site went by the name of Blogomatic 3000. In it I would dicuss sequels, remakes, reimaginings of beloved franchises and generally things that were apt to raise fanboy ire. No? Doesn’t ring a bell? Well, […]
Here’s the not-quite-as-good-as-the-US-one-sheet, UK quad poster for the Danny Trejo starring sequel Machete Kills, once again directed by Robert Rodriguez, this time from a script by Kyle Ward – which also stars Michelle Rodriguez, Amber Heard, Alexa Vega, Lady Gaga, Sofía Vergara, Charlie Sheen (here billed under his real name Carlos Estevez), Demián Bichir, Antonio […]
Water Tree Media have released the first clip from the much anticipated (at least by me and fans of the awesome Bill Oberst) teen slasher film Ditch Day Massacre, which stars horror icon Bill Oberst Jr. (Children of Sorrow, Scary or Die, Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies) and Lynn Lowry (Cat People, The Crazies). The film […]
RAW opens with Mr and Mrs Triple H making their way to the ring as the locker room members who helped Daniel Bryan on last week’s closing moments of RAW are standing on the stage. The Shield are standing beside the ring. Triple H talks about how he is proud of the superstars for stepping […]
No One Lives comes to DVD and Blu-ray on 23rd September and to celebrate, courtesy of Anchor Bay Entertainment, we have a Blu-ray copy to give away to one lucky winner! The acclaimed director of Versus and The Midnight Meat Train concocts a bloody cocktail of the horror, thriller and action genres, and introduces audiences to […]
With this years London Film Festival swiftly approaching we’ve teamed up with AskMen, and their film correspondent Olly Richards, to bring you ten films we think will be the pick of LFF 2013 – I’ve focused on this years genre offerings, whilst Olly looks at some of the more mainstream films which will screen as […]
Welcome to this weeks WWE Smackdown review and results column. It’s an interesting time for fans of wrestling, so let’s get going. The show opens with a video package showing the recent happenings of the big Orton/HHH/Stephanie/Shield/Bryan/Locker Room storyline, bringing us all up to date with the angle. Vickie Guerrero is in the ring as […]
The music-driven ride of your life continues in Tomorrowland #3, from Paul Jenkins – the Eisner award-winning writer of Wolverine: Origin and The Darkness – on sale this Wednesday! (25th Sept) Dimitri Vegas and Like Mike, DJs at the world-renowned Tomorrowland festival, have been chosen as the Keepers of Creativity. Ranged against the Destructive forces of the Nameless One, […]
Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Jeff Bridges, Mary-Louise Parker, Kevin Bacon, Stephanie Szostak, James Hong, Marisa Miller, Robert Knepper, Mike O’Malley, Devin Ratray | Written by Phil Hay, Matt Manfredi | Directed by Robert Schwentke The summer box office season may be over but one of the big casualties will be talked about for a while as […]
NXT begins with Sami Zayn making his way to the ring, followed by his opponent, and the man whom he debuted against a couple of months ago, the former Edge-head, Curt Hawkins. Hawkins is a talented worker and I don’t understand why they don’t throw him back with his friend Zack Ryder and have them […]
Stars: Kayden Rose, Émile Beaudry, Eryka Cantieri, Roch-Denis Gagnon, Simon Laperrière, Pat Lemaire, Karine Picard, David Tousignant | Written and Directed by Éric Falardeau Thanatomorphose: “visible signs of an organism’s decomposition caused by death” Thanatomorphose is, to put it bluntly, a startling and horrifying first feature from writer/director Éric Falardeau. On the surface the film […]
Stars: Hyo-ju Han, Woo-sung Jung, Jun-Ho Lee, Kyung-gu Sol, Simon Yam | Written by Kin-Yee Au, Ui-seok Jo, Nai-Hoi Yau | Directed by Ui-seok Jo, Byung-seo Kim Review by Scott Clark of Cinehouse One of the most accomplished and stand-out features at Toronto International Film festival this year is the slick, fierce, and ingenious Korean thriller […]
After being marooned for five years on a remote island, billionaire Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) returns home with a mysterious agenda and a lethal set of new skills that he uses in a war on crime. Based on the iconic DC Comics character Green Arrow, Arrow: The Complete First Season is a modern-day re-imagining of […]
Stars: Ian Ziering, Jaason Simmons, Tara Reid, Cassie Scerbo, John Heard, Alex Arleo, Neil H. Berkow, Heather Jocelyn Blair | Written by Thunder Levin | Directed by Anthony C. Ferrante When a freak tornado swamps Los Angeles, thousands of man-eating sharks are sucked into the swirling vortex, terrorizing the waterlogged populace and flooding the city with shark-infested […]
You think know the story of Tony Stark. Billionaire genius. Armored Avenger. But this October, everything you know will change in an instant as The Secret Origin of Tony Stark comes to its shocking conclusion in Iron Man #17, from the creative team of Kieron Gillen, Carlo Pagulayan and Scott Hanna, Evil android 451 has […]
Stars: Joe Swanberg, Amy Seimetz, AJ Bowen, Kate Lyn Sheil, Gene Jones, Kentucker Audley, Shaun Clay, Shawn Parsons, Donna Biscoe | Written and Directed by Ti West Review by Scott Clark of Cinehouse New Splat Pack maestro Ti West wowed us back in 2009 with House of the Devil then again last year with Innkeepers. Whilst […]
Stars: Evalena Marie, Michael Reed, Dayna Cousins, Victoria Nugent, Jason Beaubien, Rebecca Whitehurst, Michael Scott Allen, Jonathan Thomson, Andrew Rudick, Jonathan Popp | Written and Directed by Michael Rasmussen, Shawn Rasmussen I think I may have been only one of a handful of people in the film-blogging community who expressed deep love for John Carpenter’s […]
Stars: Tony Todd, Sally Kirkland, Douglas Tait, David Beeler, Joel Bryant, Stacey Carino, Richardson Chery, Adam David, Jemal Draco | Written and Directed by Kimberly Seilhamer An albino, a deaf mute, a jock, a fat kid, a sexually-abused girl and a token “Angry Asian” chick all get on a bus… Sounds like the start of […]
Hi there Nerdly readers. How’s it going? I’m well cheers. When I’m not watching films or reading comics or writing about them for this good site, I can frequently be found running around the mean streets of South East London late at night. This isn’t because I’m fighting crime as a masked vigilante, it’s because […]
Stars: Lawrence Monoson, Steve Antin, Diane Franklin, Joe Rubbo, Kimmy Robertson, Louisa Moritz | Written and Directed by Boaz Davidson I’ve long been a fan of The Last American Virgin, no doubt due to my obsessions as a teenager with the ingenue that is Diane Franklin. Having enjoyed Better Off Dead (where she played a French […]
11th and 18th September Jack here; I’ve bashed two weeks of my contributions to Mark’s stuff for the week of the 11th, because a) I’m behind on my writing and b) I’m not sure how to get caught up otherwise. Bit of a mishmash then, but I’m sure you can handle it, intelligent and tolerant […]
