As a fan of Marvel Comics, anime and funny animated movies starring plucky kids who invent robots, I really should be more excited for Big Hero 6. I’ve laughed politely at the trailers and looked meaningfully at the posters and pics, but there’s just some spark still missing for me. Maybe I’m just a grumpy old coot though who can’t recognise …

When it was announced that director Josh Trank had cast his Chronicle star and friend Michael B. Jordan to play Johnny Storm in Fox’s upcoming reboot of Fantastic Four, the internet had its own FLAME ON! moment. See Jordan is black, while Johnny Storm is most definitely white. What’s more, he’s supposed to be the biological brother to Kate Mara’s very Caucasian Sue …

Welcome to The Extras! A daily dose of all the smaller movie related news, clips and just plain cool stuff that you might have missed! Last Updated: July 15, 2014

Concept art! There used to be an age where Hollywood would devour artists and spit them out like a piece of gristle after they’d helped design the look and feel of a movie. Times changed, and these days concept art teams are getting some well deserved recognition. And the folks who worked on Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes …

1865. The American civil war is over. Lincoln is dead. A former soldier walks into a church confessional, asking to be forgiven for something terrible he and others had done during the war. But absolution comes in the form of a bullet Last Updated: July 15, 2014

There are only two constants in life: Death and taxes. Luckily for us and our occasional cinematic narcolepsy, the film industry tends to prefer to make movies about the former and not the latter. And there have been some really interesting stories about death – or more specifically, what lies beyond it – and Jamie Marks Is Dead seems to be …

Here’s the first teaser trailer for the adaptation of Joe Hill‘s novel Horns, from director Alexandre Aja (High Tension, Piranha 3D). Starring Daniel Radcliffe as Ignatius, a guy whose girlfriend dies mysteriously and leaves him with the blame and a town full of hate. To make matters worse, Ignatius soon sprouts a pair of horns and finds that he possesses new powers which can make people confess …

If there was a show that I both loved and hated, it had to be Heroes. It brought realism to a comic book idea, but it did so with some insufferable characters and a lead villain who should have been one of the biggest bads to ever walk the planet who instead flip-flopped between protagonist and antagonist more than a …