Author: Simon Andrews

First up, as the rabid snowflakes and trolls amongst your number start to howl and spit in indignation at the mere thought of defending disgraced Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn, let me set a couple of boundaries here. I write this as a person with no particular political or social leaning. I in no way seek to condone or excuse Gunn’s actions. The themes and language used in his tweets are utterly repugnant, and fully deserving of sanction and punishment. I’m not looking to achieve or provoke anything in writing this. I’m just a Marvel fan, and an average…

If you think it’s hard being a fan of the DCEU, then spare a thought for the long-suffering fans of British comic 2000 AD. So far they’ve had one Judge Dredd movie that was a high-camp laughing stock, and then had to wait 17 more years for a follow-up that was perfect, but failed to make any money. Thankfully, Dredd has now been picked up by Netflix for an exciting new TV incarnation, and this week it’s been revealed that fellow 2000AD character Rogue Trooper may now be being lined up or a potential big screen release.  With Moon, Source…

After that Infinity War bombshell ending, audiences are pretty darned desperate for Avengers 4 to hurry up and drop, so it can resolve the fates of some beloved Marvel characters. The much anticipated fourquel (is that a thing? If not, it is now…) won’t arrive on screens until May 2019 though, which means the next MCU film to land in cinemas will be the Captain Marvel movie in March. There’s still a hell of a lot that Marvel are keeping under wraps about the origin story of Carol Danvers, but details are slowly emerging about the movie through some familiar…

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is famed for the passion and commitment of the men and women who are entrusted with directing its movies, and few are more passionate than Guardians of the Galaxy helmsman James Gunn. Notorious for saturating his movies with in-jokes, homages and Easter Eggs, Gunn has spent the last four years teasing fans that there still remains one Easter Egg hidden in the original GOTG movie that nobody has managed to find yet. But all that might have finally changed this week… A YouTuber named Second Son has spotted what they think is the final Easter egg…

There’s still a long way to go until the next film in the X-Men series in X-Men: Dark Phoenix gets released. So, in the meantime, how about you go and check out an unofficial concept trailer to pass the time? You may as well, because the chances are you won’t be seeing an official trailer for the movie anytime soon…. Even by the usual standards of the rest of the X-franchise, Dark Phoenix seems to have set itself a big old mountain to climb. The latest film has to try and:  Pay an appropriate level of deference and reverence to…

It’s fair to say that despite hauling in $142m in profits, Jose Padhila’s RoboCop reboot did not reinvigorate the franchise in the way that MGM had been hoping for. A distinctly unmemorable affair, it was slated for presenting audiences with a total lack of creativity or originality. So the studio has decided to roll the dice again, this time putting their faith in a somewhat divisive and controversial saviour. Neill Blomkamp. The steadily fading fortunes of the Robocop series are eerily similar to the uncomfortable career trajectory of Blomkamp himself. Despite the runaway success of his 2009 debut, District 9,…

With each passing year, the MCU’s output manages to wildly exceed audience expectations. The studio’s projects continue to grow in scope and spectacle, leaving little room for criticism or kickback from the fan community. Having finally got round to addressing their long-standing villain issue, perhaps the most consistent criticism that can now be leveled at the company is their ongoing resistance to uniting the quite separate TV and movie arms of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Well, Ant-Man and The Wasp just went to great lengths to emphasize the connections between the two departments – and it involves and Randall Park as…

After the familiar blast of targeted promotional material, Ant Man and the Wasp is very nearly upon us. Well, unless you live in the UK. Thanks to the bloody World Cup, British residents still have another month left to wait yet, but for everybody else the twentieth movie in the MCU franchise opens this Thursday. The film’s main villain, Ghost, is being played by actress Hannah John-Kamen. But just who is she, and where will you know her from? After a deceptively slow start to her acting career, the 29 year old actress has finally hit the big time this…

As the Marvel Cinematic Universe has evolved during the last passing decade, so too have each of the original Avengers lineup (and we’re not just talking about Natasha’s ever-changing hairstyle here…). Every one of the team’s founding members has been molded and shaped by their one personal tragedies and battles, and now an interesting theory has suggested that it is Thor who will ultimately be the hero with the biggest and most spectacular future ahead of him as the franchise moves forward.  You only have to watch just five minutes of Thor: Ragnarok before you realize it’s VERY different to…

Despite an eleventh hour attempt by rivals Comcast to derail the Fox/Disney Mega-Merger, the 66 billion dollar deal is now well on the way to being finalized. This opens a whole host of new ways to expand Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe, with the creation of a new MCU version of Wolverine top of the wish-list of fan expectations. So just how quickly can audiences expect to have to wait before the debut of this freshly rebooted incarnation of Logan? The answer is that the new Wolverine will almost certainly feature at some point in the MCU’s upcoming Phase 4 slew…