The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 was essentially half a good movie. How you take that sentence will depend entirely on what you thought of it – either only half of the movie was good, or it was a good movie but clearly only the first half of a story. I fell into the second camp, which is why …

It was just the other day I told you about Hannibal being cancelled by home network NBC, but that there was still hope it would continue elsewhere. Turns out I might have been a tad optimistic as the odds are stacking up against the show finding a new home, and that its currently-airing third season might indeed be its last. …

Stephen King’s bank account no doubt sends the movies a birthday card every year. It is hard to think of an author whose work has been adapted so widely. Many even end up being remade and the latest in that line may be Cujo. Last Updated: July 7, 2015

The X-Men franchise has been a series that truly has understood the idea of evolution. It’s a theory that has allowed the films to be massively successful, while remaining mostly fresh. The original films made the superhero genre a blockbuster concept, the solo films were spin-off licenses to print money and the current First Class and Days of Future Past movies were …

The revival of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s career has not been going all that well. So far his return to the big screen has been lining up a steady stream of flops and under-performers. But things look far rosier when casting a view beyond the U.S…. Last Updated: July 7, 2015

If there’s one comedian that has been everywhere, it has to be Chris Tucker. He stole the show next to Ice Cube in Friday, he was Ruby Rhod in The Fifth Element and he helped Jackie Chan save the day. All of that, with a voice that could be mistaken for a Japanese dub of Dragon Ball Z. Tucker has …

I don’t know whether it was my years of watching a certain Galifreyan timelord in a blue Police box flip-flopping through time with reckless abandon in Doctor Who or that my favourite sub-genre of sci-fi is time travel, but barring one small intentionally obscured detail, I really was not at all confused by the temporal gymnastics that went on in …

[column size=one_half position=first ] “By the power of Grayskull! I have the Powaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar!!!” At this point you either have the He-Man theme song stuck in your head or you weren’t around in the 1980s. There was no bigger toy line nor animated show of its time. Not even the Transformers or Ninja Turtles could lay claim to quite such a …