You might recognise those names from a little sci-fi show that nobody watched until after it was cancelled and only then realised it was actually pretty good – Firefly. Maybe because it had a no-name director by the name of Joss Whedon. Yes, I’m still a little bitter about that. But never fear, as the dynamic duo are re-teaming to create …

“No animals were harmed in the making of this film. 70 Cast and crew members were”. Thus reads the alarmingly truthful blurb on the poster for Roar, a movie the likes of which the world had never seen before and probably never will again. I mentioned Roar in an edition of Extras earlier in the week, but for those of …

When it was made official last year that the existing Star Wars Expanded Universe was essentially being scrapped, millions of fans around the world – including me – did their best impersonation of a Special Edition Darth Vader and howled out a woeful “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”. For decades, before the EU was relegated to the non-canon Star Wars Legends banner i.e. glorified …

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Disney is moving full steam ahead with bringing its library of classic animated fairy & children’s tales to life. In the last few years the House of the Mouse has brought Alice in Wonderland (directed by Burton) and Maleficent (a spin on Sleeping Beauty) to the big screen in live-action format, Cinderella opens in the US on Friday, and both The Jungle Book …

I’ve got way too much love for the Tron franchise. While the story may be a bonkers version of video game Innerspace, I still regard the films and animated prequel series as phenomenally important in terms of their visual design. Director Joseph Kosinksi and his design team raised the bar for Tron@ Legacy back in 2010. And it looks like …

We love superheroes, we love Sharlto Copley and we love free stuff! So when all three those things combined yesterday, we sure as hell got excited! What am I blabbering on about? Well, totally unexpectedly yesterday, Sony went and made the entire first episode of their upcoming comic book adaptation series Powers available for free for everybody to enjoy. And …

There’s been a definite rising YA-books-to-movies trend, from the forerunners of the pack, Harry Potter and The Hunger Games, to the new additions like The Maze Runner and Divergent. Now, fans of the Artemis Fowl books have started a petition to see their big screen dreams realised for a movie that’s been rumoured for quite a while. I’ve never read the Artemis …