I wasn’t exactly kind to the first trailer for Heroes Reborn, the upcoming event-series sequel/reboot to the once-great TV series from a decade ago. For a show about the extraordinary, the trailer made it look anything but. Butt. It looked like ass, is what I’m saying. But maybe my judgement was a little too quick, as a new trailer for …

There’s no secret of my love of the History series Vikings, a show that caught many off guard when it premiered back in 2013. I am delighted that the show is still going strong and instead of losing momentum is picking up pace in both story and in character growth – season four looks to all be about character exposition. This …

I’M GONNA WRECK IT! Disney is in a good place right now, with their current crop of CGI family movies being winners. It’s essentially a new Renaissance for the company, that saw the likes of Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Hercules and The Little Mermaid dominate the box office and win hearts in the 1980s and 1990s. Except …

Anime games are usually Darryn's domain, but this one would make me all kinds of happy.

Superhero movies wasn’t the only thing that made a splash at Comic-Con this weekend past, as the brightly costumed corner of TV land was also represented by the CW’s Arrow and The Greatest Comic Book Show On TV aka The Flash. The panels for both sister-shows were kicked off and led by Arrow’s Oliver Queen himself Steven Amell, as he …

When it comes to fantasy novels, there are certain works that are considered almost compulsory reading for fans. Not necessarily because they are all the best books out there, but it’s just sort of a tiered rite of passage that everybody does because, well, everybody else did. There’s Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings”, of course, David Gemmel’s “Waylander” series …

I never thought I would be saying these words, but “Thank you, pirates”. That may be a strange thing to say, but let me explain. By all accounts, one of the most impressive things revealed at Comic-Con, was the first footage for Warner Bros/DC Comics’ upcoming Suicide Squad. I say by all accounts, because it was only screened in Hall …

[column size=one_half position=first ] It took a while for this column to reach a movie by the Coen brothers. It’s partly because they have such a wide range of work to choose from – nearly all Coen brothers films gain a cult following. Movies such as The Big Lebowski and Fargo have some die-hard followers. Last Updated: July 13, 2015