Look, I know that Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman are massive movie stars now, too busy inventing the modern computer and fighting dragons – not to mention Cumberbatch winning big acting awards – to make time in their schedule for some TV work, but damn it, I really miss Sherlock! Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss’ brilliant modern revisionist take on …

Ordinarily, we don’t make any efforts here to post teasers about upcoming trailers, which are nothing but slightly elongated teasers when you think about it. We don’t need to feed into that marketing hype, not at all. And then you get the kind of film which just gets its source material. Like Deadpool. So far, Deadpool has been particularly open so far, offering plenty of …

[column size=one_half position=first ] I love John Carpenter’s movies. Yes, I can admit that his stuff is not for everyone: despite making very straightforward films that can even stray into B-movie territory, Carpenter’s movies can often sit just beyond the edge of popular consumption. Last Updated: August 3, 2015

BELIEVE IT! When it comes to anime, you most likely have that one friend who insists on you watching the Naruto series. The long-running Masashi Kishimoto comic recently wrapped up with 700+ weekly chapters in the bank, while the anime adaptation is still rolling on. Starring an adolescent ninja in training who happens to be shunned by the village due …

Agent Cruise, your mission should you choose to accept it, is to hit the box office and reach the number one spot. Oh, you’ve already done that? Good job Tom Cruise! Unlike several other summer tentpole movies with big, aging names attached to them, Mission Impossible 5: Rogue Nation did gangbuster numbers at the box office. With an opening weekend …

Marvel officially closed off their Phase 2 this weekend past with the release of Ant-Man, a movie that may have had a troubled production but ended up being pretty great. It’s a substantial change of pace for Marvel, eschewing the crazy big cosmos-shaking ramifications that has underpinned all their recent fare for a story that’s much smaller in scope (and …

Is there a movie franchise more cursed than The Crow? Possibly, if you look at my home movies on betamax but that’s a story for another day. The original The Crow film made a post-mortem star out of Brandon Lee, while the rest of the flicks in the gothic series were pure stinkers. Fast forward a couple of years, and …

A story made the rounds last week that despite being the main champion for it, it looked like the Gambit solo movie was about to lose star Channing Tatum due to some last minute contract negotiations with 20th Century Fox that had suddenly soured. With the film set to start production in October and a set to open almost exactly …