A mature Bond film? You may well ask what the point would be. James Bond is, after all, a superhero of sorts, and therefore a fantasy figure straight from the depths of the male adolescent psyche…

The creative partnership of director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland is renewed with ‘28 Days Later…’

What kind of absolute curmudgeon do you have to be to not enjoy ‘The Scorpion King’? The kind of absolute curmudgeon who thinks Bjork deserved her Best Actress at Cannes for ‘Dancer In The Dark’ no doubt.

The first family of American Network TV finally make it to UK terrestrial television.

After a barnstorming season opener ‘Buffy’ refuses to settle down into simplicity or predictability during these four episodes.

The summer is over, the telly is back – and so is the Slayer with a real doozy of an opener for a series now in its (gulp) seventh glorious year.

I’m not sure what I can add to the substantial praise already lavished on this film over the years, just encourage those who haven’t seen it to do so at once. Well, maybe not at once: maybe you’ll want to save it for December.

The main purpose of this review is to let people know that Look Around You exists at all because it’s the sort of show that you could very easily fail to notice.

Panic Room is in many ways the opposite of director David Fincher’s previous effort, Fight Club…

In the space of a fortnight we’ve seen two signature writers return to the franchises that made their names: Simon Furman on Transformers: The War Within, and Larry Hama on GI Joe: Frontline. The results are strikingly different…

As a committed Bond fan I’ve been treating this film with a fair amount of trepidation; a Vin Diesel secret agent vehicle rumored to have been based on material collected for a long dormant rival Bond movie?

Somewhere, there’s a checklist of what all period TV drama must contain. Tipping the Velvet checks all the boxes and then some…

There’s a cliche about blockbusters, that they’re essentially adolescent, kids’ stuff. In the case of xXx, it’d be hard to argue otherwise…

At the London Science Museum they’ve somehow they have put together a show that appeals to die-hard fans (like, er, me) without alienating more well-balanced individuals or families.

Sorbo and co are back, with former Twin Peaks writer Bob Engels on board as the new creative force behind the show…

Er… is this book supposed to be making sense yet? I sincerely hope not, because if it is then I’m being slow on the uptake.

I’d rather Jack…

I must admit that I was a bit sceptical about this initially, because it seemed to me that it might be just another teen coming-of-age flick…

Don’t get me wrong, Roswell is a good show, but it’s not hard to see why it’s been cancelled at last…

The Truth Is Here. Sort Of…

Call me a heretic, but as Beatles films go I actually prefer Help! to A Hard Day’s Night.

The first thing that most will notice about this film is its gorgeous photography. The skilled lighting and filming of the shots renders the most mundane image somehow beautiful…

Have you seen this yet? You haven’t? Well, grab a copy and watch it smartish, before somebody gives away the ending.

Writer Bruce Jones’ approach to the Hulk goes even further into the horror genre…

The last standalone episode of The X-Files takes us into the tragic world of a man obsessed with a TV show – talk about biting the hand that feeds you…

In Part One of our exclusive interview we discussed Paper Museum. In this second half, we asked them a little bit about how they got into the comics industry…

Two more characters get a degree of closure in this episode, but in very different ways…

‘Paper Museum sprang from the idea that we didn’t want to put out “just another superhero anthology”,’ says writer Jai Nitz…

I’ve only recently become the sort of person who reads fashionable contemporary novels, and White Teeth is my first experience of watching the TV adaptation of a book I’ve actually read. This did beg the question, why was I watching it?

What’s the critical state of play with Quentin Tarantino at the moment? Is it OK to like him again yet, or is the consensus that his work has dated badly?

Mark cringes in fear as one of the weaker moments from the final season of The X-Files returns to haunt him…

Spy films tend to follow the style of one of three writers – John le Carre, Tom Clancy or Ian Fleming.

Unlike many films Innerspace is very easy to pigeonhole. It’s a classic example of the mid 80’s – a miniaturization, action, romantic, buddy comedy.

Is it just witless nostalgia that leads me to feel that, at some point in the past, the New TV Season that came each September was something to look forward to?

Jim Mahfood, the brains behind Stupid Comics, enjoys the rare status among comic artists of being known to a lot of people who don’t generally read comics…

David Duchovny returns to direct an episode… but is that him in front of the camera as well?

As The X-Files approaches its conclusion, it’s time to say goodbye to some friends…

Mike Grell’s run is now well underway and as a result we can see a little more of what he has got planned for the book.

Although Cap is undoubtedly one of Marvel’s flagship characters, he has been curiously under-served over the years.

Steve Dillon drawing Hellblazer. Aaaah, mine eyes fall on it like a much-missed old friend. This isn’t to say I don’t enjoy other interpretations, mind…

Christopher Nolan’s follow up to the awesome Memento can best understood via a comparison with the albums of Badly Drawn Boy; no really, it can.

It’s a bit of a shock to receive the second issue of volume 2 so promptly after issue 1 came out. For once, it’s not possible to claim it was “worth the wait”.

As a relative newcomer to the world of comics I often ponder what it is that led me to start shelling out good money week after week for picture books made for kids.

They’re scary. They’re monsters. What more do you need to know?

Last time we saw Alan Moore’s literary super team, stars were falling over England. It was a cliffhanger ending that we were left with for what seems like an age. Now, finally, we get the next chapter…

This week, Burt Reynolds may very well be God. Tell us something we don’t know…

Transformers: Takara is the first in a series of DVD releases that will showcase episodes from the original Transformers cartoon that only aired in Japan, rarely before shown to Western audiences…

With the possible exception of ‘Time Wars’, the epic ‘Target 2006′ is the holy grail of UK-originated Transformers strips, out of print for over fifteen years and every bit as good as your pre-teen self thought it was.

The Italian Job is the most visible and enduring cultural icon of England’s post-1966 World Cup triumphalism; a caper movie which brings together a height-of-his-powers Michael Caine and a magnificently dry Noel Coward…

Ted Bundy was the last movie of this year’s FrightFest, and co-writer/director Matthew Bright, producer Hamish McAlpine and actress Alexa Jago were all on hand to talk about the movie…