Just the other day we saw the trailer for A Most Wanted Man, one of the final films finished by Philip Seymour Hoffman before his unexpected death earlier in the year. He had also been working on the final two chapters in Hunger Games saga, which which are, admittedly, the type of blockbuster spectacle that Hoffman didn’t usually go for in his career. …

If you’ve ever been a fan of orchestral movie soundtracks, then chances are, at least some of them have been composed by Hans Zimmer. The man has been churning out soundtrack after soundtrack for years now, from the Lion King through to the more recent Man of Steel. Having finished with that score, Zimmer explained that he wouldn’t be back …

I like to think of X-Men: First Class as a solid new direction for the species known as Homo Cinematicus. It was a damn good movie, filled with new energy, a great cast and the swinging seventies. Fast forward a few years later, and the future looks rather crap. But hell, at least something has survived from the First Class …

I read a lot of comics. A lot. And unfortunately, due to my stupid fanboy tendencies, I often read comics even when they’ve become bad in the hopes that they get good again. In the 60 issues of Scalped released from 2007 to 2012, I never once had that problem – it was always damn good. Hell, I’d go so far …

I may have suffered from bad sinus problems my entire life, leaving me with a seriously lame sense of smell, but if there’s one thing I can sniff out from a mile away, it’s potential Oscar bait. And ladies and gentlemen, I think my schnoz just hit gold. The Homesman, a new drama written, directed and starred in by Tommy Lee …

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On the surface, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has all the right characters. You’ve got the Turtles themselves, William Fichtner’s Shredder and a badly cast April O’Neil. What’s missing? A certain sensei, who trains the half-shell heroes to be ninjas. I’m talking about Splinter of course. And it looks like he’ll also be kicking ass in the new movie. Last Updated: …

Sony has been all about the arachnids lately, revealing their plans to expand their Amazing Spider-Man franchise into a cohesive universe. But they’re going about this in the most unexpected and potentially most exciting way possible: by spinning off into a couple of villain-centric standalone flicks. One such baddie movie is Venom, the Alex Kurtzman directed movie about Spidey’s symbiotic nemesis. And it …