Paul Risker chats with Dominga Sotomayor Castillo, writer-director of Thursday Till Sunday… Recently I was privileged to have an opportunity to speak with Chilean filmmaker Dominga Sotomayor Castillo, and gain an insight into the mind of the writer-director, who made her feature debut with Thursday Till Sunday. She spoke to us about how she finds […]

A Late Quartet, 2012. Directed by Yaron Zilberman.Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken, Catherine Keener, Imogen Poots, and Mark Ivanir. SYNOPSIS: Members of a world-renowned string quartet struggle to stay together in the face of death, competing egos and insuppressible lust. The beauty of A Late Quartet is in its ability to allow the audience […]

Pincus, 2012. Written and Directed by David Fenster.Starring Paul Fenster, Dietmar Franusch, Christi Idavoy and David Norstrom. SYNOPSIS: A story centered on a young guy who ineptly runs the family construction business by day and begrudgingly acts as caretaker for his father by night.  David Fenster’s Pincus is happy to be rough around the edges. […]

Throughout April, we’re counting down to the release of Marvel’s Iron Man 3 with our picks for the Greatest Comic Book Movies of All Time; here’s #6… Iron Man, 2008. Directed by Jon Favreau.Starring Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges, Jon Favreau and Clark Gregg. Having established Marvel Studios in the mid-90s, […]

Our weekly round up of the latest stories from the world of screen superheroes, including Man of Steel, Justice League, Lobo, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Iron Man 3, The Avengers 2, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy, Doctor Strange, X-Men: Days of Future Past, The […]

Paul Risker chats with French filmmaker Mathieu Kassovitz about his latest film Rebellion… It was eight years ago that Mathieu Kassovitz exploded onto the scene with La Haine (1995), celebrated as a modern cinematic masterpiece. So it is no surprise that here at Wages of Film, we were particularly excited at the prospect of sitting […]

British actor Tom Hiddleston could be set to follow his role as the God of Mischief in the Marvel Cinematic Universe by taking on another comic book adaptation, with The Wrap reporting that Hiddleston has entered early negotiations with Relativity Media about headlining the long-in-development remake of The Crow, which is currently in the hands […]

John Lucking reviews the third episode of Hannibal…. If serving two masters is difficult, serving several must be nearly impossible. While a perfect episode of Hannibal would satisfy the creative team, the network, critics and audience, “Potage” illustrates just how delicate a balancing act this can be as it expands the show’s horizons. The chief […]

 Olympus Has Fallen, 2013. Directed by Antoine Fuqua.Starring Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Finley Jacobsen, Dylan McDermott, Angela Bassett, Melissa Leo, Rick Yune and Radha Mitchell. SYNOPSIS:  When terrorists storm the White House and take the President of the United States hostage, only his ex-Secret Service guard can do anything about it. If you’re […]

Throughout April, we’re counting down to the release of Marvel’s Iron Man 3 with our picks for the Greatest Comic Book Movies of All Time; here’s #7…. The Dark Knight Rises, 2012. Directed by Christopher Nolan.Starring Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Anne Hathaway, Tom Hardy, Marion Cotillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Morgan Freeman, Cillian Murphy, Liam […]