Next summer’s zombie blockbuster looks epic in scope, but will it do justice to its celebrated source material? After its original December release date was pushed back to June 2013 following two script re-writes and a reported seven weeks of re-shoots, internet doomsayers immediately began to predict that World War Z would be a cinematic […]
With their episodic, crisis-of-the-week approach to storytelling, you’d think that comic books would have found their natural visual media outlet in television, rather than in the numerous film adaptations which continue to net big bucks for major publishers like Marvel and DC. The wealth of elaborate backstory and character development in most long-running comics can […]
Skyfall Review [Spoiler-Free] by Griff Williams I went into Skyfall with cautiously high expectations, and I mean really high and really cautious. Casino Royale was, in my opinion, the best Bond movie (indeed, in my opinion, the only good Bond movie ever); it was mature, suspenseful and visceral, somehow managing to transcend the ‘classic’ series […]
In the most April Fools-esque tradition, yet completely genuine, comes the news that corporate behemoth Disney, not content with buying Pixar and Marvel, have now consumed, sorry, bought, LucasArts for a tidy sum of $4 billion. This of course means that they now have access to the Star Wars vaults and, in a canny move, […]
It wouldn’t be Halloween without horror movies, but if you’ve already been spooked by classics like Halloween and The Exorcist and shocked by newer fayre like Paranormal Activity and [Rec], there are plenty of underappreciated horror gems out there waiting to be discovered by intrepid film fans on a dark October night. This Halloween, Geekzine […]
Ever wondered how your favourite fictional characters would fare against each other in a brutal fight to the death? Of course you have! Many’s the pub debate that’s revolved around the martial prowess of Mr Tickle, or the hand-to-hand combat proficiency of the supporting characters of Space Precinct. But now such vulgar speculation can be […]