One could say that ‘Ghost Rider’ takes a minor Marvel hero, casts a skilled, distinctive and under-appreciated actor to play him and – despite fiddling with the character’s continuity in doing so – gets right to the heart of his appeal.

What if ‘Midsomer Murders’ were directed by Tony Scott or Michael Bay?

Remove the head or destroy the brain: ‘Plague of the Living Dead’, ‘When Zombies Attack!!’ #2 and ‘The Walking Dead’ #35.

The Thunderbolts get a new creative direction, while Zemo gets his own book…

Seventeen years since the last ‘Rocky’ film, Sylvester Stallone writes, directs and stars in the return of the character that made him famous, as Rocky Balboa tries one more time to prove that he has what it takes to be a champ.

Based on the novel by Thomas Harris, Hannibal Rising attempts to explain the motivation and origin of the world’s most famous fictional serial killer.

E4 has given ‘Skins’ a massive hyping campaign in the last couple of weeks, to the point of irritatingly inserting a permanent reminder of how many days were left until the premiere just underneath its top-corner ident…

The Korean film industry currently enjoys the kind of confidence which its British equivalent can dimly remember possibly having had in the 1950s or 1960s… maybe.

Subtitled French-language films are usually seen by a dedicated audience, but ‘Ils’ will appeal more to mainstream horror fans…

“SCATTER!”

Alistair Beaton’s new feature length comedy-drama ‘The Trial of Tony Blair’ stars Robert Lindsay as a Blair who’s finding that he can escape his mistakes no longer…

Autumn in the US always brings a new hatch of bright-eyed TV shows which, like sea turtles scurrying swiftly to the sea, emerge in the hope of being one of the few to grow to the strong maturity of syndication…

No bite, but plenty of suck.

Sometimes different versions of a text can complement each other, but this is a case where experiencing one first is pretty much guaranteed to spoil the other…

You could be forgiven for thinking that Sydney Newman’s forty year old creation had taken over Xmas 2006 entirely.