If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! At first it seems extremely odd to have a reboot of the Spider Man franchise. After all, it’s barely five years since the third in Sam Raimi’s series, featuring Tobey Maguire. And now, a completely new retelling of the [...]
If you’re sick of comic-book adaptations and film remakes, the last thing you might expect to get excited about is a new Superman film. That’s right: there’s a new Superman film scheduled for release in 2013. However, before you run off groaning at the idea of yet another mediocre cash-in, this one comes with caveats. [...]
If you’re a Doctor Who fan – and one of the true variety who has all the old black and white episodes on DVD, still watching them regularly – then some exciting news has emerged. Two episodes from the sixties which were thought to be lost have been discovered and returned to the BBC, meaning [...]
Several fresh snippets of news have popped up regarding the much anticipated JJ Abrams Star Trek sequel, which is destined to hit the silver screen in 2013. Abrams has apparently cast Alice Eve, of Entourage and Sex in the City 2 fame, for Star Trek 2 as it’s currently being referred to. The British actress [...]
The Walking Dead is nearing the end of the first half of its second season here in the UK. And it has rather shuffled its way through the initial part of the series, albeit picking up some pace in the last couple of episodes. Even if, regarding the last episode’s cliffhanger – don’t read the [...]
In perhaps the biggest news since Christopher Ecclestone appeared from the Tardis in 2005 and ended a Doctor Who drought which had lasted since 1989 – save for one TV film outing for Paul McGann in 1996 – another movie is now on the cards. Except this potential production is a proper Hollywood flick, although [...]
Some good news in these days in which we’re more accustomed to reporting about the premature closure of sci-fi shows rather than the arrival of fresh meat. Syfy has just announced that it has three new scripted projects on the boil, under development by Universal Cable Productions, CBS TV Studios and Fox TV Studios respectively. [...]
Talk of a reboot of The Fly, another classic old flick, has been buzzing about the rumour mill for a few years now. When the first rumours emerged, David Cronenberg – the director of the 1986 classic which was itself a remake of a movie from the fifties – at first apparently wanted nothing to [...]
So, what’s the scariest film you could possibly watch for Halloween tonight? Moviepilot.com, a recommendation platform for movies and TV shows, decided to find out the answer to this question with a Facebook poll. Almost 23,000 votes were cast over a period of three days, and nearly half of those plumped for the same horror [...]
Matt Smith has put a dampener on speculation that he might be leaving his role as Doctor Who soon. Well, to a point, anyway. This comes after he made some comments to VH-1, in which he said he had another year of Who to film, and then he’d look towards the west and Hollywood for [...]
The Walking Dead has only just shambled back onto our screens for season two, minus Mr Darabont, the showrunner who famously exited mid-way through putting together the second outing. And already the good news has come through that the zombie apocalypse has been green lit for a third season by AMC over in the US. [...]
A modern movie version of The Twilight Zone is coming – of course it is, a modern movie version of everything retro is coming, it would seem – and now the project has a name attached to direct. And that name, picked by Warner Bros, would be Matt Reeves, at least according to Deadline’s ever-present [...]
Here’s some news for thunder fans everywhere regarding the next instalment of Thor. A director has been confirmed to take control of the sequel, none other than Patty Jenkins according to Den of Geek. Jenkins is most famous for directing the 2003 flick Monster, which was a dark tale of murder that stared Charlize Theron [...]
Remember Rentaghost? If you were a child of the seventies, you’ll probably find it hard to forget the kids’ TV comedy show about a bunch of ghosts who could be hired out for hauntings. Jester ghost Timothy Claypole bumbled about the modern world, failing to get to grips with it all, and Nadia Popov who [...]
James Cameron has been chin-wagging about the sequel to his 3D alien epic which wowed some, and left others distinctly underwhelmed. We’d already heard that Sigourney Weaver was set to return in her lead role. Although quite how, exactly, has never been clear seeing as she died at the end of the original Avatar. Never [...]
Normally computer games are made based on films, not the other way round, but the reverse trend started some time ago with the likes of Resident Evil, Silent Hill and Doom hitting the silver screen due to the popularity of their game franchise. Halo is also a big name sci-fi franchise, and work on a [...]
Another science-fiction series has been signed up over in the States, by ABC, hopefully one which won’t be cancelled after a big cliffhanger at the end of the second season. Ex-Comm is set to be a sci-fi drama with humorous overtones, and has an elevator pitch of West Wing meets the X-Files. But with a [...]
Like us, you’re probably keenly awaiting the return of The Walking Dead with season two of the zombie show set to air later this month. It returns to FX on October 21st, just two weeks on Friday, but if you can’t wait until then, there’s a little taster which has been released this week by [...]
Remember Mortal Kombat: Annihilation? If you watched it, you’re probably still trying to forget the 1997 movie, which was a loose adaptation of the Mortal Kombat 3 video game. It was actually the sequel to the first Mortal Kombat film two years previous, but Annihilation was truly panned by the critics – a thinly strung [...]
Good news for fans of the more modern flavours of Star Trek, the (not quite so modern) Next Generation variety in particular. Because Star Trek: The Next Generation is all set to warp onto Blu-ray, and not just in its original format, naturally. As with the original Star Trek remastering for High Definition, smart new [...]
Man of Steel teaser trailer released
If you’re sick of comic-book adaptations and film remakes, the last thing you might expect to get excited about is a new Superman film. That’s right: there’s a new Superman film scheduled for release in 2013. However, before you run off groaning at the idea of yet another mediocre cash-in, this one comes with caveats. [...]
Penguin owner buys ASI self-publishing company
According to the BBC, Pearson, which owns Penguin books among other things, has bought Author Solutions Inc in a £74 million deal. The deal means that Pearson now has control of a self-publishing interest. The news has raised concerns among some writers that intellectual property (IP) rights for new writers may be at risk, especially [...]
The Winner of our April 300 Word Writing Challenge is writer John J Brady, (known on these forums as alchemist). He wins a £10 voucher to spend at Amazon or The Book Depository, our quarterly prize. As usual, the challenge our members faced was to write a story of no more than 300 words, inspired [...]
Forum member Teresa Edgerton is the winner of our January 300 Word Writing Challenge. She wins a £10 voucher to spend at The Book Depository, our quarterly prize. As usual, the challenge our members faced was to write a story of no more than 300 words, inspired by an image selected by our moderators. For [...]
All Zombies Must Die hits the Xbox
At the weekend, All Zombies Must Die was unleashed on Xbox Live. As you can probably guess from the title, this is a rather tongue in cheek game developed by Doublesix with a focus on multiplayer zombie slaying. Set in the town of Deadhill, All Zombies Must Die offers a huge variety of weapons (such [...]
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