Author: Neil Vagg

Neil is the Editor-in-Chief at GYCO. He has a BA in Film & TV and an MA in Scriptwriting; he currently works 9-5 in an office and 5-9 as a reviewer. He has been reading comics for as long as he can remember and is never far away from any book which has the word Bat in the title.

Mars Attacks new 4K remaster is available now on 4K UHD Blu-ray, SteelBook and Collector’s Edition from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. Synopsis A fleet of Martian spacecraft surrounds the world’s major cities and all of humanity waits to see if the extraterrestrial visitors have, as they claim, “come in peace.” U.S. President James Dale receives assurance from science professor Donald Kessler that the Martians’ mission is a friendly one. But when a peaceful exchange ends in the total annihilation of the U.S. Congress, military men call for a full-scale nuclear retaliation. Review This year the brilliant Mars Attacks is turning…

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It’s Monday and that means it’s time for a brand new Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis video from the teams at Crystal Dynamics and Flying Wild Hog. Heralding a bold new era for the intrepid explorer, Legacy of Atlantis is set to release on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Steam and Nintendo Switch 2 on February 12, 2027. This week’s video reintroduces the original Tomb Raider villain, Jacqueline Natla, voiced in the new game by Adrienne Wilkinson. Wilkinson and the development team discuss bringing the character back for Legacy of Atlantis and what it means for our heroine Lara Croft…

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We’re deep into the back half of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4 now and following last week’s disaster-themed episode things are getting lighter this week. Today we’re previewing episode 407, aka “Like Chronitons Through the Hourglass” today with new stills and the episode synopsis. New episodes stream globally every Thursday on Paramount+. We have another very brief synopsis for this week’s episode, written by Dana Horgan and Bill Wolkoff, and directed by Anna Dozoka, which reads: A temporal anomaly traps the crew inside a soap-opera reality while Pike confronts a life he lost. Take a look at all the images…

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Whisper of the Heart, the heart-warming coming-of-age classic from Studio Ghibli, the globally celebrated animation house, comes to IMAX® for the very first time in UK and Ireland cinemas, newly remastered in 4K, from Wednesday 16 September 2026. The film will also be released wide in cinemas from Friday 18 September. Tickets are available now. The film, originally released in 1995, is a coming-of-age classic from celebrated studio veteran Director Yoshifumi Kondo based on the original manga by Aoi Hiiragi and a screenplay and storyboards by Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki. The new 4K remaster highlights the great thought and care put into every frame of…

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On Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 September 2026, cinemas across the UK will come together for National Cinema Weekend, a two-day celebration of cinema and the unique joy of the big-screen experience. Cross-industry body Cinema First is delighted to announce that following the success of previous National Cinema Days, the event will return in 2026 with a new name, an expanded two-day format and a renewed focus on everything that makes visiting the cinema so special. National Cinema Day was first launched by Cinema First in 2022 and proved an immediate success, achieving 1.46 million admissions in a single day. This grew to 1.56…

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Crunchyroll, the ultimate home for anime worldwide, announced today the UK theatrical date for the all-new anime fantasy film The Irregular at Magic High School THE MOVIE -Yotsuba Succession Arc-. The story, which follows two magician siblings, Tatsuya and Miyuki,  in their second year at Magic High School, will come exclusively to cinemas via Crunchyroll and Sony Pictures Entertainment on 4th & 5th November, 2026, in the United Kingdom. The film will be available in Japanese with English subtitles. The Irregular at Magic High School THE MOVIE -Yotsuba Succession Arc- marks the second feature film in The Irregular at Magic…

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Dark Horse Books and Marvel Comics continue the oversized hardcover collection series of Bullpen Books with a fourth volume; The Art of The Uncanny X-Men. This oversized 10×14” book collects iconic covers, full issues and original art reproduced from archival scans, curated and contextualized by comics historians John Lind and Chris Ryall in a new essay, captioned commentary and a new introduction. The X-Men is one of the bestselling comics franchises of all time, featuring one of the best-loved super hero teams in the Marvel Universe. This volume focuses on the iconic 1970s X-Men era by Len Wein, Chris Claremont, John Byrne, and Dave Cockrum, including Giant-Size X-Men #1 (the first…

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Prime Video has given the green light to new UK Original Crouch End, a six-part limited series based on the short story by the global bestseller, Stephen King.  While King’s iconic worlds of Castle Rock and Derry have terrified generations, Crouch End took his readers to the UK and the streets of the North London Borough. Now, that story is being brought to screen as the first King adaptation to be produced in the UK. Crouch End will launch exclusively on Prime Video in over 240 countries and territories worldwide and is available to Prime members at no additional cost. London never sleeps deeply, and its dreams are uneasy. When global movie star Doris Freeman bursts into a…

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UPDATE: With “OutKast” now streaming globally, HBO and DC have release the remaining still images from the episode. Beware, these images are a little more spoiler-y than the initial batch: The week Lanterns will be diving back into its 1996 story to explore the origins of John Stewart (Aaron Pierre). The DC Studios series will air its latest episode on HBO Max this Sunday in the US and will be available to stream here in the UK on Monday. Today we’re taking a look at new episode still from the episode, rumoured to be titled “OutKast”. The second episode, “OutKast”,…

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Dark Horse Books collects the iconic stories of villains Marvel Comics has created over the years in a series of hardcover archival collections that span six decades of the savage and sordid characters.  The second volume Marvel’s Most Villainous Volume 2: Doctor Doom explores a curated collection of stories, original art, and covers from Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, John Byrne, Bob Layton, Dave Cockrum, John Romita Jr., Jim Lee, Steve Ditko, Don Heck, Gene Colan, Larry Lieber, Wallace Wood, Marv Wolfman, Keith Pollard, Joe Sinnott, Doug Moench, Tom Sutton, David Michelinie, Bob Layton, Mark Waid, Mike Wieringo, Mike Mignola, Salvador Larocca, Paolo Rivera, Daniel…

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