Martin Carr reviews the thirteenth episode of Gotham season 3… If a singular act were guaranteed to make an audience sit up and take notice stapling your face back on wins hands down. And so it is with Cameron Monaghan’s return to Gotham, where he makes another flagrant grab for Heath Ledger’s crown with a […]
Anthony G. Cohen to direct remake of Every Which Way But Loose
It looks like we can add 1978’s Every Which Way But Loose to the ever-growing list of remakes, with Deadline reporting that Anthony G. Cohen (The Sex Trip) has signed on to direct a new take on the Clint Eastwood comedy. “I have been interviewing directors for over a year and as soon as I […]
The Death of Good Screenwriting in Hollywood
Tom Jolliffe on the death of good screenwriting in Hollywood… Awards season is in full swing, so it seems somewhat ironic to come and bemoan the dearth of good screenwriting within the modern studio system, but I’m going to anyway. Putting aside the award nominated films, my focus is more on those films that are […]
DVD Review – Captain Fantastic (2016)
Captain Fantastic, 2016. Directed by Matt Ross. Starring Viggo Mortensen, Frank Langella, George MacKay, Samantha Isler, Annalise Basso, Nicholas Hamilton, Shree Crooks, Charlie Shotwell, Kathryn Hahn and Steve Zahn. SYNOPSIS: In the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father devoted to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical and intellectual education is forced to […]
Blu-ray Review – Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, 1974. Directed by Sam Peckinpah. Starring Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Robert Webber, Gig Young, Helmut Dantine, Emilio Fernández, and Kris Kristofferson. SYNOPSIS: A bartender and his girlfriend go on a road trip through Mexico to collect the bounty on the head of a dead man accused of fathering […]
Movie Review – Killer Pinata (2015)
Killer Pinata, 2015. Directed by Stephen Tramontana. Starring Lindsay Ashcroft, Nate Bryan, and Billy Chengary. SYNOPSIS: A possessed piñata, seeking to avenge the savagery that humanity has inflicted on his kind, picks off a group of friends, one by one, in an unending night of terror. Sometimes a concept will sell a film. You just […]
Movie Review – xXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017)
xXx: Return of Xander Cage, 2017. Directed by D.J. Caruso. Starring Vin Diesel, Samuel L. Jackson, Ruby Rose, Deepika Padukone, Nina Dobrev, Toni Collette, Tony Jaa, Rory McCann, Michael Bisping, Nicky Jam, Neymar Jr., Kris Wu, Donnie Yen and Ice Cube. SYNOPSIS: Xander Cage is left for dead after an incident, though he secretly returns to […]
Book Review – A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
Michelle Herbert reviews A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay… A Head Full of Ghosts is an intense account of what happened to Merry’s family fifteen years ago. The story is told in two ways, the first is a set of interviews, where adult Merry recounts the events of that time to a reporter. The […]
Gotham Season 3 Episode 12 Review – ‘Ghosts’
Martin Carr reviews the twelfth episode of Gotham season 3… With Gotham breaking again after the next two episodes it feels we barely have time to warm up before another hiatus is enforced. Which is why getting comfortable, becoming engaged or generally investing beyond a casual curiosity is ill-advised right now. There are the usual […]
Dakota Fanning joins Daniel Bruhl and Luke Evans in The Alienist
THR is reporting that Dakota Fanning (American Pastoral) has secured the female lead alongside Daniel Bruhl (Captain America: Civil War) and Luke Evans (Beauty and the Beast) in The Alienist, TNT’s upcoming adaptation of Caleb Carr’s bestselling novel. The psychological thriller series takes place in 1896 New York, and will see Fanning as Sara Howard, […]
