New Avengers: Age Of Ultron poster tells all

Masters of creating hype, Marvel released an official poster for the upcoming Avengers Assemble sequel, Age Of Ultron, yesterday and whilst it's annoyingly similar to the first movie's promotional material and doesn't quite pack the same punch as action-packed concept art revealed at last year's Comic-Con, this new insight into the film gives superhero fans a lot to take in.

Guardians of the Galaxy review: I-I-I-I-I'm hooked on a franchise!

The unusual suspects 

The master moviemakers at Marvel must have been so determined not to let DC show them up with their upcoming Batman V Superman, that before the rival production company even had a chance to release their first superhero ensemble movie, Marvel released it's second. And what a corker of a second it is! 

Having been randomly abducted by galactic thieves and outlaws when he was just a boy, and forced to live a new life in space, now grown-man Peter Quill spends his days stealing and doing odd-jobs for people who want stuff done that isn't quite, let's say, legal within the galaxy.

After taking a job for a niche collector, Quill goes after an orb he knows absolutely nothing about, when he unwittingly runs into a few others who are also desperate to claim the object themselves. He soon realises he'll have to shrug off his lone wolf demeanour and work with his rival criminals in order to save the power of the orb from falling into the (even more wrong than his) hands.

X-Men: Days of Future Past review - Franchise gets revamped under Singer's reign once more

In the last few years, Bryan Singer has made it quite obvious that he is not a fan of Brett Ratner's edition to the X-Men franchise, The Last Stand. So it comes as no surprise that the film that brought him back to the mutants is one that completely goes against any plot that X-Men 3 put into place and sees him literally rewriting the story that had unfolded in the third instalment.

Ratner's The Last Stand was dark, (really dark in terms of Marvel), and Singer has voiced frequently that not only would he have 'done things a little differently' but he certainly wouldn't have had so many characters written off.

Now, fans would have been pretty outraged if he just did a remake of X3 with a completely different plot (even though they weren't too pleased with it to begin with) but Singer saw a way around this obstacle. Using the comic 'Days Of Future Past' as a basis for his script, he had the characters themselves do his dirty work, and had them go back in time to change their future, technically rendering The Last Stand as, well, non-existent in the X-Men universe. Well played, Singer, well played.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier review - The good, the bird and the red-head

After watching the latest Captain America instalment, part of the juggernaut that is The Avengers, it seems relevant that Cap is (by a fair few years) the oldest of all the characters. This is a grown-up superhero movie; serious, war-esque and with absolutely no gimmicks. Now, that doesn't sound like a Marvel combination does it? But with these characters, it's evident there's no other way it could be done.

5 Reasons You HAVE To See The Amazing Spiderman 2!

Andrew Garfield dons the red-and-blue suit once more as I count down the five (and a half) best things about Marvel's new hit. (Arguably the much more interesting job of the two, right?)...

Thor: The Dark World review - Superior sequel stands tall against it's predecessor

Being a huge Marvel fan, I was chomping at the bit to watch 2011's first life-action movie adaptation of demigod Thor. But I must admit, I left the cinema a little disappointed. I couldn't pinpoint exactly what went wrong with the film, albeit if anything really went wrong at all. But in my eyes, it just didn't match up to not only my hyped expectations but other Marvel movies as well, such as Iron Man or X-Men.

Despite that cementing Thor as my least favourite Marvel superhero (I then saw Captain America and the bottom slot was quickly filled by another), I was eager to give the second instalment a try! And I'm glad I did, as Thor: The Dark World has none of what failed it's first go.

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Amy Poehler plays Leslie Knope in Parks And Recreation

When Sky Atlantic started up in 2011, it was evident that we loved American shows over here, Mad Men, Boardwalk Empire and Game Of Thrones were just a few examples that had millions of us tuning in every week. But there were two things still wrong with this set-up that just wasn't satisfying all TV lovers needs.

For starters, not everybody has the luxury of having Sky channels and secondly, where was all the golden comedy that the US is so well known for?! Well, those issues were soon to start changing...

Iron Man 3: Stark is back!

It was clear in Avengers Assemble who walked away the audience’s favourite, and that, was Iron Man. When he risked his life to save the whole of the world from Loki’s invasion, it was evident; he was the hero of the piece, so it’s no surprise that the next film instalment of the Marvel franchise was his.

For the past few years, it has seemed to be a trend that summers are packed with superhero blockbusters and this summer will be no exception what with Thor 2 coming out soon. But with Joss Whedon’s masterpiece Marvel mash-up last summer, everyone worried would the next stand-alone film be a step-down. There was only one character that could have carried this burden and smashed it with one ironclad fist and that, is the metal man.