During an exclusive interview we learn the truth about Assassin's Creed Syndicate's politics, as well as how much research went into the naming of unique London pubs.

You know that whole “Save the cheerleader, save the world” thing? Yeah, that didn’t actually work out, especially the whole “cheerleader” part! The absence of Hayden Panettiere from the cast roll of upcoming event series revival Heroes Reborn was a huge clue, but now it’s official: Claire Bennett, the seemingly immortal cheerleader from the first series, has indeed bit the …

Let’s be honest: Movies based on video games suck. As a fan of video games, this makes me very angry. Not angry enough to slingshot myself at some green pigs though, which is what the fowl of addictive smash hit video game Angry Birds have been doing for years now. But why? No, not “why do video games suck?”, as …

I feel bad for the review I wrote on Southpaw a few weeks back, because I like Jake Gyllenhaal. Fortunately he is back in a film that does appear to deserve his talent and it went straight to the top of the charts. Last Updated: September 23, 2015

There has been some buzz about the age of a certain wallcrawler, but speaking to Yahoo, director Jon Watts has now confirmed that British actor Tom Holland will play a 15-year-old Peter Parker in Marvel’s new Spider-Man film. This will be the youngest iteration of the character ever on film. “I love the idea of making a coming-of-age high-school movie… We’re really going …

Horror fans should certainly be familiar with the name Clive Barker – he’s the creator of the Hellraiser movie franchise and it’s iconic antagonist Nick Pinhead. Now Deadline are reporting that one of the horror master’s earlier works, ‘Weaveworld’, is heading to the small screen. Originally published in 1987, ‘Weaveworld’ is better characterised as a dark fantasy novel. Its basic premise …

I really think there is a place for cliches in movies, with some using them as a kind of wink to the audience. Like The Expendables for instance (we don’t talk about the third installment that went full PG-13). There are also movies like Jurassic World that are more cheese than Trevor’s socks after a grueling walk to the local candy store, but …

Independence Day will always be one of those landmark movies to me. It’s not the superb special effects, fantastic cast or wonderfully-paced story that makes it one of my all-time favourite flicks however. It’s the fact that for the first time ever, this was a movie that showed off just how screwed humanity would be if intelligent life ever decided …