And now here’s some rather superb casting news for you to… chew (oof!) on! Way back when, I remarked that Chew, writer John Layman and artist Rob Gullory’s hilariously kooky, Eisner Award winning Image Comics series would be perfect for a feature film adaptation, and it appears that somebody was listening. Maybe not to me specifically, but to somebody, as …

Grit. It all comes down to grit these days. Batman has it, Superman has it, and now it looks like Josh Tranks’ highly anticipated and at times controversial reboot of the Fantastic Four will also have it. Producer Simon Kinberg has said the movie is going to be far more real and gritty “It’s a much more grounded, gritty, realistic …

It’s another long weekend in South Africa as of today, so there’s extra time to hit your local cinema. There are also six new releases to choose from, although there’s no question which of them will dominate at the local box office. The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Rise of  Electro: Screening in 2D, 3D and 3D IMAX is this sequel to …

If you, like me, watched Starz’s Michael Bay produced pirate series, Black Sails, and thought, “Man, if only this show was, you know, good,” then do I have a treat for you today. The words “John Malkovich is Blackbeard” would already have been enough to get me quite interested in Crossbones, a new pirate show from NBC, but to sweeten the pot …

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What will happen to Piper Kerman? Fans of the Netflix series Orange Is The New Black are still stunned by the first season’s cliffhanger ending – a moment that will prove to be a real watershed moment for Kerman and her time in jail. Not as hyped as Arrested Development nor as acclaimed as House Of Cards, Orange Is The New …

All good things must come to an end, especially when said good things go off the rails a bit. The six seasons we’ve seen thus far of True Blood – Alan Ball’s bloody, sexy, guilty pleasure vampire show all about the misadventures of Anna Paquin’s telepathic half-fairy”Soockeh” Stackhouse, her many supernatural suitors and the complete lunacy of their little corner of Louisiana …

Good guys make great villains – so goes the saying in the entertainment industry. So it would be better to meet these actors between takes… Tom Hiddleston His breakthrough onto the A-list came as a result of Loki, the super-villain that Tom Hiddleston plays so well. Granted, it is a bit of a debate these days if Loki is really …