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Dan Persons and Steve Biodrowski narrowly avoid a sucker punch to the solar plexus as they dodge and feint their way through an examination of Zack Snyder’s new CGI-laced fantasy action pic. Is SUCKER PUNCH a female empowerment flick or another male fantasy about hot chicks in skirts wielding weapons? Is it an original vision [...]

Bryan Cranstons in talks for villain, no trip to Mars.

“Shocking” THOR clip fom the upcoming Marvel movie.

Disney uncomfortable with sci-fi action project from TRON: LEGACY director, being shopped elsewhere.

First pic from WONDER WOMAN pilot shows improved costume.

“I’ve been running my whole life, now it’s time to stop.”

There is a tradition in Japan to present ghost stories during the warm summer months. An 18th century kabuki play by Nanboku Tsuruya provided the most popular and durable storyline – that of an ambitious, would-be samurai named Iemon who marries and then murders Iwa, whose ghost returns to wreak revenge on her faithless [...]

Thomas McDonell has been cast as a younger version of Barnabas Collins in the Tim Buton/Johnny Depp DARK SHADOWS.

RED RIDING HOOD, based on the classic fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, is a werewolf movie in the style of a paranormal romance. Instead of building an atmosphere of horror, such stories are about women involved with supernatural beings (vampires, werewolves, demons) and the ensuing romantic difficulties. These women are often either [...]

Warner Bros. Pictures head wants JUSTICE LEAGUE film in 2013, intends to reinvent Batman after THE DARK KNIGHT RISES.

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are the actor-writers of two the very best comic horror films of the previous decade: SHAUN OF THE DEAD and HOT FUZZ.  SHAUN OF THE DEAD brilliantly and humorously used zombies as a metaphor for braindead slobs working braindead jobs, an appalling fate to which much of the populace can [...]

To champion a film as a work of art is an increasingly rare pleasure, but no other reaction seems appropriate in response to Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s masterpiece UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES. Appropriately, the film won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival last year, yet this official Thai entry for the [...]

First look at SMALLVILLE’s versions of Booster Gold and The Blue Beetle.