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The Incredible Invisible Plane
WONDER WOMAN’s Invisible Plane can be viewed (ahem) as either the most stupid idea in the world of comic book history or an idea so profound us mere mortals can only marvel at it. Let’s see what we know about it…
Here Come The Girls
The Revenge of The fanTasy females!
Baby talk
Following the huge success of his first two feature films as director – the searing BEFORE DAWN and the brutal BAIT – EMMERDALE star DOMINIC BRUNT is back this year with his third full-length movie. We spoke to Dominic and his wife, actor/coproducer JOANNE MITCHELL, about their latest project – prepare for the coming of the ADULT BABIES…
The Taming Of The GRU
Illumination Entertainment made their name with the DESPICABLE ME franchise and as Gru returns this summer in the third instalment, STARBURST takes a look at what to expect...
Cosplay Catwalk
STARBURST: Tell us about your fascination with Marty McFly and BTTF… Shannon: I wasn’t fortunate enough to grow up with Back to the Future. I wasn’t even alive when the movie came out, I was born in 1990! I was going through a bit of a rough time, and my friends suggested that we all sit down and enjoy a movie together. After flipping through our options, one of my friends suggested Back to the Future. When I replied that I had never seen it, I was rightfully met with looks of horror, disbelief, bewilderment, and shame. And just like that, something clicked. Not a quiet sound, but a prominent echo that resonated in my very soul.
Paradise Postponed
The Alien series has taken us on a long and – to put it mildly – very strange journey since a hibernating circle of seven dreamers returning from a deep space towing mission were awoken by a mysterious signal from a storm-blown planet known only as LV-426.
Unfinished Monkey Business
After the dawn and rise, civilisation attempts to strike back. We take a look at the eagerly-awaited third instalment of the successful update of the classic series as we go to WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES…
SimianScope
Although it might not have scaled the box office heights of behemoths like JURASSIC WORLD, the recent KONG: SKULL ISLAND was nevertheless a massive hit with moviegoers worldwide and likely to kickstart a franchise world that will include city-levelling scrapping with the likes of Godzilla. Kong himself is a cultural icon comparable with his nuclear-age nemesis Gojira, as well as other silver screen scarers like Dracula and the Alien franchise’s xenomorphs. The latest instalment of the rebooted PLANET OF THE APES saga hits screens soon and there are plenty of imit-ape-ors (boom!) that left us with films great, good and oh-so-bad. It’s only ape-propriate (boom!) that we give a little love to the greatest gorillas, the monkeys with the most and the primates you love to hate. It’s time to go ape (boo… ah, you get the idea).
The Brightest Star In The Galaxy
What’s in a name? Luc Besson is hoping his latest big budget sci-fiadventure VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS will win the war of the box office despite having the clunkiest title of the year…
Toy Story Of Terror!
The origins of the possessed and murderous doll Annabelle are further explored in ANNABELLE: CREATION...
Journey To A Neon Dystopia
With BLADE RUNNER 2049 soon to hit screens, we look back at a subgenre of fiction that has blossomed since the latter part of the twentieth century: CYBERPUNK.
More Human Than Human
When film historians look back on the cinema of the 20th century, there’s every chance that the one actor’s name that stands above all others will be HARRISON FORD. The highest grossing actor of all time, his films have brought in $4.87 million so far thanks to appearances in four STAR WARS movies, four Indiana Jones films and numerous other hits…
Better To Live As Your Own Man
Than As A Fool In Someone Else's Dream
Peter Capaldi's Dead*
With apologies to Bauhaus
Enter Chikara
Over the last few months in STARBURST, we’ve begun to dip a toe into the world of professional wrestling, particularly where it crosse s over into the genre television we all know and love. Other than a few m entions in issue 445’s piece on graps vampires, however, we’ve yet to scra tch the surface of actual wrestling storylines that wouldn’t look out of place between the opening and end credits of your favourite shows. That time is now.
Brother Red Plays The Game
MANTIC GAMES is a British board and miniatures game company that has produced some amazing games including Star Saga, Dreadball, Warpath and games based on properties such as The Walking Dead and Mars Attacks. Their latest project is to bring Mike Mignola’s HELLBOY comics to the table top with a game based on the big old red monster himself. We caught up with top games designer James M. Hewitt to find out more about this exciting new game.
Watching Doctor Who
An in-depth Look at the Whoniverse
Your Worst Dream Come True
Even if you haven’t seen IT, or read the book by Stephen King, you’ll probably be familiar with its iconic titular villain. The shapeshifting terror who hunts kids, lives in the sewers, and prefers to take the form of Pennywise the Dancing Clown has fascinated readers since the book’s release in 1986. Though the novel was a huge success on release (many regard it as King’s finest), it was Tommy Lee Wallace’s 1990 two-part TV serial that seared IT into the horror canon, guaranteeing clown terror for decades to come...
The Bogeymen Cometh Beyond Psycho
When Norman Bates was introduced to the world in 1960, he took people by surprise.
High Plains Drifter
After Years In Development Hell, Stephen King’S Literary Gunslinger Roland Deschain Finally Makes It To The Big Screen In The Dark Tower. Starburst Goes On A Quest To Uncover A Modern-Day Mythology…
Subspace Relay
All The News From The Worlds Of Star Trek With Iain Robertson.
Enter The War Master!
If you have any interest in the current series of Doctor Who, it won’t have escaped your attention that John Simm has returned as the Master and appeared alongside Michelle Gomez as Missy.
In Space No One Can Hear You Roll
The ALIEN movie franchise has survived for so long due to the way it draws people in. The movies that everyone talks about are the ones that make you feel part of their world, and with Ridley Scott’s classic and its spin-offs, you can practically feel the monsters breathing down your neck. Obviously this is an experience that we’ve tried to emulate many times, and thus there are a great many games and board games that try to emulate the experience. Let’s take a look at a few.
Watching Doctor Who
There was a recent, rather clickbaity online article professing to offer up the ‘eleven things that Doctor Who fans need to stop arguing about’.
Sting in the Tail
This month, the nuisance Martin Unsworth slaps on the insect repellent and risks anaphylactic shock to bring you...