Frame Rated: GHOSTBUSTERS trailer

The trailer for Paul Feig's all-female Ghostbusters reboot dropped yesterday, and I was fair but honest in my assessment for Frame Rated. (Hint: I liked aspects, but it was mostly a laugh-free shrug.) Read my thoughts here!

Frame Rated: The 88th Academy Awards - 2016 Nominees

Over at Frame Rated yesterday: I've written a rundown of this year's big Oscar hopefuls, with a bit of commentary about the films and talent who missed out on being nominated by the Academy. Hope you enjoy it! Click here.

Trailer: STAR TREK BEYOND

Let me restate my 'Trekking' background, for those unaware. I'm a huge Star Trek fan. Not dress-like-a-Klingon huge, or even house-filled-with-merchandise huge, but I've seen all of the shows and films since being introduced to it as a boy in the mid-'80s. The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine were formative TV experiences for me. I still tear up over Spock's death scene in Wrath of Khan. And I loved J.J Abrams' Star Trek reboot from 2009. I even enjoyed his sequel from 2013, Into Darkness, which I know rubbed a lot of fans up the wrong way. It made some missteps, sure, but I still think it was very entertaining.

Trailer: INDEPENDENCE DAY - RESURGENCE

I was a big fan of Independence Day back when it was released in the summer of 1996, mostly for the large-scale spectacle and tongue-in-cheek fun it delivered. There had been plenty of alien invasion before then, but none with its level of realism. It did for alien invasion flicks what Jurassic Park did for dinosaur movies. (That said, there are quite a few moments look shoddy these days, as there was a lot more model work than we're used to seeing, and some of the greenscreen compositing isn't great.) Now, 20 years later, here comes the sequel everyone expected we'd be seeing a lot sooner than this: INDEPENDENCE DAY - RESURGENCE. Is it a sign director Roland Emmerich's all out of fresh ideas? Perhaps...

Trailer breakdown: BATMAN v SUPERMAN - DAWN OF JUSTICE

The new BATMAN v SUPERMAN - DAWN OF JUSTICE trailer hit the net yesterday, so I've taken a little look. (May not contain entirely accurate, serious information.)

Frame Rated: BATMAN v SUPERMAN & SUICIDE SQUAD trailers

Just recently, over at Frame Rated, I've passed judgement on two of the most buzzed about San Diego Comic-Con trailers: DC Comics' double-whammy of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Suicide Squad. Please, click through to read!

Teaser: BATMAN v SUPERMAN – DAWN OF JUSTICE

This teaser leaked online yesterday, so most people have already watched and condemned it based on terrible smart-phone footage. I wasn't going to do that, as everything deserves to be seen in its best form. BATMAN v SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE is a film that's struggling to excite discerning geeks, despite the fact the title alone would have sent nerds into meltdown about 10 years ago. But a lot has changed since 2005. Superhero movies are ten-a-penny, and most are very good—Oscar-worthy in the case of Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy. The standards are higher now, so fans expect more...

Teaser #2: STAR WARS - THE FORCE AWAKENS

I know everyone in the known universe is sharing the new STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS teaser tailer, but for the 2% of people who get their film trailers from DMD, here's the new footage that director JJ Abrams released at the Star Wars Celebration convention in Anaheim. You get a Mark Hamill voiceover as Luke Skywalker (superb), our first look at Harrison Ford as a grey Han Solo ("Chewie, we're home"), an unexpected look at Darth Vader's half-melted helmet (was that retrieved from the crashed Star Destroyer seen in the gorgeous first shot?), and all the expected fireworks and CGI ships n' stunts. Stormtroopers! The Millennium Falcon! X-Wings! TIE Fighters! It was all here. It looks like your childhood Star Wars, brought into the modern age, without that ugly digital falseness that coated George Lucas's accursed prequels. It seems the Force is strong with this one...

ALIEN 5 is hatching, but what can we expect from Neill Blomkamp?

You can't have failed to notice excitement over news director Neill Blomkamp (District 9, Elysium) is getting the chance to make his dream project: ALIEN 5. Or whatever 20th Century Fox decide to call this latest instalment in their 36-year-old franchise, which recently received a jolt of renewed interest when Ridley Scott (director of Alien) made the prequel Prometheus. That movie may have been met with mixed reviews, but it was enough of a success that a sequel's in development, and it perhaps helped encourage the birth of awards-laden video game Alien: Isolation.

Trailer: THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E

Had you forgotten Guy Ritchie (Lock Stock, Snatch) was directing a $75m-budgeted film version of classic 1960s spy drama THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E? Well, here it is—starring Henry Cavill (Man of Steel) as suave U.S agent Napoleon Solo and Armie Hammer (The Lone Ranger) as Russian agent Ilya Kuryakin.

Super Bowl Movie Trailers 2015

The Super Bowl is apparently a big-deal sporting event in the U.S where Katy Perry dances with sharks (that upstage her), but for most of planet Earth it's a chance to see some expensive summer blockbuster TV Spots... um, on YouTube the next day.

(There's no way I'm staying up past midnight on a Sunday to see people playing rugby-with-armour.)

Below are some of the most notable teasers for cinema entertainments heading your way!

Trailer: FANTASTIC FOUR

Less a trailer or a teaser, more a mission statement. People still remember the atrocious Fantastic Four movies from 2005/7, when 20th Century Fox believed the director of Barbershop was the right man to hire. Josh Trank is the new man in charge of Fantastic Four's big-screen hopes, and he directed one of the best superhero movies of recent times with Chronicle (a rare found footage film that actually worked). Fox are still involved, but they're desperately trying to make their Marvel-originating properties work better now—having also 'soft rebooted' the X-Men franchise by making prequels, where one cleverly rewrote the sins of X-Men: The Last Stand and Wolverine: X-Men Origins.

Trailer: TERMINATOR – GENISYS (2015)

This fifth Terminator movie has a lot to overcome. There have been two weak sequels since James Cameron moved on from the franchise after T2, and a two-season TV show that didn't work for mainstream audiences. Naturally, people are now very sceptical about anything new from the long-running sci-fi franchise, and TERMINATOR: GENISYS hasn't had the best of starts. First there was that silly "misspelling" of Genesis, then came an array of shoddy publicity shots from EW that made it look like a direct-to-video parody, and most fans are alarmed the new movie's going to reboot the storyline (Star Trek style) and utilise Arnold Schwarzenegger as an aged T-800 who raised Sarah Connor as a surrogate father in an alternate timeline. You may have heard the "robo-dad" jokes?

Trailer: STAR WARS – THE FORCE AWAKENS (2015)

It's here. The first official teaser for STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS was released yesterday; the seventh movie few expected would get made, because George Lucas was always more interested in prequels than sequels to his original trilogy. There's also the fact Darth Vader died in Return of the Jedi, and until now every single Star Wars film's revolved around Anakin Skywalker in some way. It remains to be seen if this new trilogy will be able to successfully re-launch the saga, although it helps that J.J Abrams has managed to talk Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker), Harrison Ford (Han Solo) and Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia) into returning.

Newsbuzz: DOCTOR WHO's Christmas clue, TRUE DETECTIVE casting, WONDER WOMAN finds a director, ITV adapting JEKYLL & HYDE

The BBC have revealed that this year's DOCTOR WHO Christmas special is entitled "Last Christmas", fanning the flames of a summer rumour about Jenna Coleman leaving the series.

Trailer: JURASSIC WORLD (2015)

The good news: they're finally doing a Jurassic Park movie where the park's actually in full operation. It always struck me as odd the original was about a group of scientists getting a sneak peek of the place. I'd like to say it was down to the cost involved in making then-cutting edge CGI dinosaurs, but Michael Crichton's original novel also didn't take place during a fully-functioning park. So—yay!—the dinosaurs are going to escape and terrorise hundreds of people, not just Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum, and their friends. (Although I guess there's the possibility of a successful Act II evacuation, leaving behind a clean-up team of character actors for the majority of the film...)

Trailer: CHAPPIE (2015)

It's quite amusing how similar CHAPPIE is to Short Circuit at first glance. Both movies concern a robot becoming sentient, but it's the smaller details are what make the comparisons feel apt. Both 'bots were partly created by Indian men (Fisher Stevens with a silly accent in Short Circuit, Dev Patel here), and Chappie also contains a sequence where a street gang initiate the robot into their group. I'm hopeful it will otherwise be a very different film, although it strikes me as odd how South African director Neill Blomkamp keeps making films with robots/aliens created using motion-capture (regular collaborator Sharlto Copley's the actor in a ping pong-adorned leotard for this). Still, Blomkamp has a distinctively grungy look, and I'm a big fan of District 9. Hopefully, Chappie will be the hit he needs after the weak Elysium.

CHAPPIE premieres in the U.S and UK on 6 March 2015.

Marvel own geek asses for the next five years... you hear that, DC/Warner Bros?

Marvel held a special event yesterday which sent social media into meltdown for awhile, if you follow the geekier spectrum of people. The big news is that Marvel Studio President Kevin Feige outlined Phase 3 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), which is everything between Ant-Man and the third Avengers movie, spanning the next five years. I say "big news", but that's an umbrella term for a whole menagerie of surprises and revelations. Read on!

Teaser Trailer: THE AVENGERS - AGE OF ULTRON • Marvel goes dark

It's the sequel to the third highest-grossing movie of all time (having racked up $1.5bn in ticket sales). Worryingly, The Avengers came out in 2012, when everyone thought the world was going to end because of a Mayan prophecy, and were using the iPhone4S. Simpler times. Maybe it seems like The Avengers only came out yesterday because you can't go more than three months without an Avenger headlining their own solo movie.

Who should star in a female-orientated GHOSTBUSTERS?

It's strongly rumoured that director Paul Feig (Bridesmaids, The Heat) has become Sony's top choice to direct their eternally gestating GHOSTBUSTERS III.

Unfortunately, everyone's grown so tired of rewriting that script to work as a direct sequel (that may but probably won't star Bill Murray, but can't star the late Harold Ramis), that Feig may just reboot the whole thing.

Even more surprising, the updated Ghostbusters may become an all-female affair in Feig's hands. I'm not sure if this claim is accurate (or is just a theory because Feig's previous hits have all been heavy with the oestrogen), but it's interesting to imagine who might appear in a distaff Ghostbusters.

So let's look at some potential candidates: