Month: April 2012

Considering the controversy sparked by the novel The Monk upon publication in 1796 by Matthew Gregory Lewis, newly appointed to the House of Commons at that time, this

The quality of a film can be gauged from how well the director, or in this case directors, care for their audience. Do they pay attention to details,

Back in 2008, Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr) got home after his first bout of super-heroics and outing himself as Iron Man to find Nick Fury (Samuel L

A recent study conducted by consultancy group IHS has suggested that by the end of 2012 American film lovers will have paid for 3.4 billion films online, a

When I say RPG, in this age of advanced video gaming many peoples’ thoughts immediately turn to massively multiplayer online games such as World of Warcraft and Star

Best know for presenting the shows Atom, Science and Islam and Shock and Awe: The History of Electricity, Professor Jim Al-Khalili, OBE, has been awarded the Royal Society Michael Faraday Prize

Launched at Eastercon 2012, Rocket Science is not a traditional science fiction anthology. None of the featured writers  are well known, but all are previously published and many

As premises go, it would be easy to look on this as final proof that Hollywood is creatively bankrupt: a movie based upon a children’s board game. Yet

Director Tarsem Singh has a history of reinterpreting the work of others, from the great works of art that inspired the music video of Losing My Religion and

On Saturday 31st March, the Cameo Cinema in Edinburgh played host to Robin Hardy, best known for his landmark 1973 film The Wicker Man, as he attended a