To paraphrase a famous Notorious BIG song: You’re nobody… until somebody… makes an unofficial sequel to the record breaking, critically acclaimed biopic about your life as a rap pioneer. Well, maybe that “nobody” part is a bit of an understatement as director F. Gary Gray’s hip hop biopic Straight Outta Compton has been cleaning up at the box office, already claiming …

Canadian filmmaker Denis Villeneuve really exploded onto the international scene with the dynamite one-two thriller combination of Prisoners and Enemy. Both those movies, as massively different in tone as they were, were led by Jake Gyllenhaal who used them to transition from “That kid who used to talk to rabbits and was stuck in a bubble” to “Holy crap, give this man …

Don’t count me as a fan of movie news. Some of you may know I spent years covering video games and it’s the same nonsense: Marketing types slowly drip-feed information that has little bearing on if you will watch a movie or not. All it does is get people frothing over nothing. I mean, have any of you decided that …

So far this year we’ve been treated to one of the best science fiction movies ever in the form of Ex Machina, a thought provoking movie that explores identity and the human condition. Superbly acted, brilliantly paced and with enough twists and turns to leave even the hardest roller-coaster veteran green to the stomach. I think only one of those elements is really going …

So I have still not seen more than the first two episodes of Gotham. I know, I know, “It got so much better”, right? At least that’s what I kept being told by friends of mine who had stuck around pass the way too Batman fan service heavy nudge-nudge wink-wink fest that was the opening to ABC’s own take on …

By now, I think we can all agree that Fantastic Four is a terrible, terrible movie. Whatever the reason behind it, 2015’s Fantastic Four will go down in history as the most expensive reason ever to retain comic book rights by a studio. And the thing is, Fantastic Four did not have to be the kind of movie. It could …

It’s an unfortunate truth in life that whenever you have to wait ages for something, building up anticipation the entire time, it usually ends up sucking the big fat one. But I’ll be damned if Ash vs Evil Dead doesn’t look just plain… groovy! Hail to the king, baby! We’ve already had our first brilliantly gory and funny look at …

The mid to late 1990s were ruled by the British. The Spice Girls, Oasis and some other bands that I’ve forgotten about all took to the charts, and conquered it in a manner that made American groups dump their pants in the Boston harbour. But keeping those pop stars in check, was a tall order. And when you’re in charge …