Last year, NBC announced it was to reboot Roman Polanski’s horror classic Rosemary’s Baby into a miniseries and Variety is now reporting that Star Trek Into Darkness and Guardians of the Galaxy star Zoe Saldana has been tapped to play the lead. The original is one of the great horror films of the 1960s and […]

It’s good to be in with Judd Apatow. At the premiere of Girls, the producer told MTV that he has already seen Paul Rudd (This Is 40) in full Ant-Man gear from next year’s Marvel Phase Three movie. “I’ve already seen Rudd suited up in our personal lives together but I’m super excited for him. […]

American Hustle, 2013 Directed by David O. RussellStarring Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Renner, Jennifer Lawrence and Louis C.K. SYNOPSIS: A con man, Irving Rosenfeld, along with his seductive British partner, Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for a wild FBI agent, Richie DiMaso. DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers […]

Anthony Stokes on whether The Wolf of Wall Street can be regarded as the most gratuitous and self-indulgent movie of 2013…. In a way all films are self-indulgent.  Film would really be flat and boring if a movie was cut down to only what is necessary for the plot. I think the best directors manage […]

According to The Hollywood Reporter, 20th Century Fox have landed the rights for the upcoming science fiction novel Influx, written by Daniel Suarez. The book – which is set for publication on February 20th – is officially described as follows: Are smart phones really humanity’s most significant innovation since the moon landings? Or can something […]

Luke Owen reviews Hide #1 from El MacFearsome Comic Squares… After a typical happy day with his typical happy family, a young boy named Kevin wakes up to a world where everyone over the age of 18 wants to kill everyone UNDER the age of 18.With the tongue-in-cheek opening line of “this actually happened”, it’s quite […]

With Phase Two of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in full swing, it’s almost time for Joss Whedon to assemble Earth’s Mightiest Heroes for principal photography on The Avengers: Age of Ultron, and speaking to SFX Magazine (via CBM), Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige has offered up some details on the eagerly-anticipated sequel. “Joss Whedon had […]

Anghus Houvouras reviews the eleventh episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D… After a brief Holiday hiatus, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has returned to resolve some dangling plot threads and provide some clues regarding the mystery surrounding the one character everybody still seems to like: Agent Phil Coulson. Last night’s episode was a defining one for the […]

Playtime, 1967. Directed by Jacques Tati.Starring Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek and Rita Maiden. SYNOPSIS: Monsieur Hulot battles the modern architecture and technology of Paris, creating pockets of benign chaos through to the early morning. Playtime opens on an airport lounge for what feels like ages. People are dwarfed in the longshot, going about their business. […]

Last Vegas, 2013 Directed by Jon TurteltaubStarring Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Kline and Mary Steenburgen SYNOPSIS: Three sixty-something friends take a break from their day-to-day lives to throw a bachelor party in Las Vegas for their last remaining single pal. Imagine The Hangover with older, likeable characters and actual jokes and […]