In 1816, the infamous Year Without a Summer, a 19-year old Mary Shelley would change literature forever when she conceived her seminal novel Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus during a stormy night. However, the story of Shelley's life leading up to and following the creation of her masterpiece was every bit as filled with drama and tragedy as the book itself, and a new film starring Elle Fanning looks to explore that.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. It’s a silly little title that most people can’t even say without smirking. The first teaser trailer for this adaptation of another Seth Grahame-Smith’s mashup historical parody novels, certainly seemed to realize this silliness with a very tongue-in-cheek tone that looked like a whole heap of fun. Certainly a lot more fun than Abraham Lincoln: Vampire …

It’s been a while since we first showed you some images from the upcoming classic English literature slash (pun intended) zombie slaying mash-up. As we said then it’s “based on the 2009 Seth Grahame-Smith parody novel of the same name which combines the renowned Jane Austen novel with modern zombie fiction leading to a rather unique take on the original” – and, …

There is a lot to be said about ambition. And in Hollywood over the last decade or so, quite often it was being said by Andy and Lana Wachowski, the writer-director siblings of The Matrix, Speed Racer and Cloud Atlas fame. Irrespective of whether their films were comprehensively successful or not, they were always still willing to push the envelope, to go for those big ideas. …

I can almost guarantee that there are people who are going to hate Noah, the latest film from auteur Darren Aronofsky. And no, I’m not just talking about the easily offended religious – of which I’m certain there will be plenty. The suspected hatred will probably come from the fact that what Aronofksy has created here, is a challenging, idiosyncratic, contradictory …

You’d think that today was Valentine’s Day given the number of romances that are hitting the big screen in one go. However, the big release of the week is more about bullets and broken limbs than broken hearts. RoboCop: Also screening at IMAX is this sci-fi actioner that reboots the RoboCop film franchise. Joel Kinnaman is good cop and family …

I’m sure that there will be people who will look at this new trailer for Romeo & Juliet and go “WTF?! They’re rebooting Romeo+Juliet? Not only are they moving it from Miami to Venice, but they’ve also replaced all the cool guns with sissy swords! NO!”. And it’s probably because of folks like these, only familiar with Baz Lurhman’s most recent contemporary take …