Director: Various
Running Time: 681 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: July 29th 2016 (UK)
While Marvel has had great success in cinema but struggled more on TV, it’s generally been the other way around for DC. Arrow was soon joined by The Flash, then came Supergirl, online animated series and now Legends Of Tomorrow, with more shows planned. Legends certainly came with a lot of promise when it was first announced – a sort-of time-travelling equivalent of The Avengers – filled with lesser-known heroes (and villains), most of whom had been introduced in other DC shows.
Arthur Darvill plays Rip Hunter, who’s had a promotion since playing luckless companion Rory in Doctor Who, as he’s now a Time Master (not Lord), with his own equivalent of the TARDIS. Hunter comes from a future that has been taken over by the evil Vandal Savage, a 4,000-year-old immortal. Although he’s been banned from meddling in the past, Rip goes rogue, commandeering a time ship and heading to the 21st Century to put together a band of heroes, who will travel through time with him, trying to find Savage at various points in history so they can destroy him. [Read more…]
Brendan Fraser is a sort of 21st Century version of the b-movie actors of the 1950s – quite popular but rarely in anything that’s all that good. He’s had a particularly rough patch with the likes of Extraordinary Measures and Furry Vengeance, but he’s got an awful lot of film in post-production and now he’s signed up to make one more, the action thriller Split Decision.
13 years ago, actor Rufus Sewell helped Aussie director Alex Proyas make a name for himself with the wonderful Dark City, and now they’re re-teaming for the director’s new movie, an adaptation of Milton’s classic, Paradise Lost, according to 
Diego Boneta may not be much of a name now, having only had a few guest spots in the likes of 90210, but the presumption is that with a lead role in the musical Rock Of Ages, the Mexican musician/actor will be a much better known by this time next year. It’s probably that which has helped him snag a role in Alex Proyas’ adaptation of John Milton’s classic poem, Paradise Lost.