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The God of Mischief speaks about Thor 2

: 11 January 2012; Gerard Wood

This week, during a webchat hosted by Empire, Tom Hiddleston (aka Loki) let fall a few tasty morsels about the follow-up to Kenneth Branagh’s mighty Thor. The webchat was primarily concerned with Hiddleston’s latest movie, War Horse, but ...

Will audio be the bane of Chris Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises?

: 04 January 2012; Gerard Wood

If you've seen the six minute prologue to Chris Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises, you will almost certainly have an opinion about the quality of the audio track, or more precisely the clarity of the new villain’s voice. Bane is played by Tom Hardy, ...

First full trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

: 22 December 2011; Gerard Wood

The first full trailer for Peter Jackson's long awaited and highly anticipated adaptation of The Hobbit has been released and it is a glorious vision, to be sure. While it is a delight to be reacquainted with Ian Mckellen as Gandalf, Andy Serkis as ...

David Dobkin's Arthur & Lancelot ticking the right boxes

: 03 December 2011; Gerard Wood

When it was announced in June that Warner Bros. had picked up a spec script titled Arthur & Lancelot re-imagining the legend of King Arthur and Lancelot in a contemporary setting I looked for the silver lining to this unworthy idea and found ...

Tarsem Singh's Immortals: a triumph of vision and spectacle

: 13 November 2011; Gerard Wood

Tarsem Singh’s Immortals is a strange beast, a hybrid creature not unlike the minotaur of legend, part man, part bull. In legend, the minotaur has a man’s body and a bull’s head. I guess that makes it about one fifth bull. Well, the proportion ...

The Woman in Black sends Harry packing

: 20 October 2011; Gerard Wood

The Woman in Black may have been an inspired choice for Daniel Radcliffe’s first post-Potter movie: judging by the chilling new UK trailer it looks as if the young actor may succeed in breaking away from the Potter type-cast in one fell ...

First full trailer for Marvel’s The Avengers lands a knockout punch

: 11 October 2011; Gerard Wood

Seven months out from its highly anticipated theatrical release in May 2012, the first full trailer for Marvel’s The Avengers has arrived with AWESOME writ large in every scene! Marvel's short but sweet synopsis runs something like this: when ...

Marcus Nispel’s Conan the Barbarian - a one dimensional movie in 3D

: 24 August 2011; Gerard Wood

Marcus Nispel’s Conan the Barbarian doesn’t really justify the effort of a review, and the less time I spend thinking about it, the happier I’ll be. But I was outspoken in support of Nispel when he was appointed to the helm of this reboot, so ...

Underworld: Awakening - It’s a new world

: 20 August 2011; Gerard Wood

The fourth instalment in the über-stylish Underworld series, Underworld: Awakening, is due in January 2012 and the first trailer has just been unleashed. Len Wiseman, who wrote and directed the first two movies in the series, Underworld and ...

New trailer for Tarsem Singh's Immortals

: 17 August 2011; Gerard Wood

The second trailer for Relativity Media's fantasy epic Immortals is now available, and although it doesn't quite have the impact of the first trailer (which we thought was fairly awesome), it certainly hasn’t diminished our enthusiasm ...