According to Deadline, Ethan Hawke, Rose Byrne and Chris O’Dowd are to star in Juliet, Naked, an adaptation of British author Nick Hornby’s novel from director Jesse Peretz (My Idiot Brother) and screenwriters Tamara Jenkins (The Savages) and Jim Taylor (Sideways). Published in 2009, Juliet, Naked has been compared to Hornby’s second novel High Fidelity […]
Movie Review – Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016)
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, 2016. Directed by Edward Zwick. Starring Tom Cruise, Cobie Smulders, Aldis Hodge, Danika Yarosh, Patrick Heusinger, Holt McCallany, Robert Catrini and Madalyn Horcher. SYNOPSIS: Jack Reacher goes on the run to clear his name, and in the process discovers a secret from his past. The first Jack Reacher film […]
The Strain Season 3 Episode 8 Review – ‘White Light’
Martin Carr reviews the eighth episode of The Strain season 3… Slowly strands are beginning to intertwine as flashbacks become more familiar, interactions more fraught and family ties are severed in a search for closure. The Strain has become what few thought possible, morphing as it has into an allegorical testament to some of our […]
Scream: The TV Series Halloween Special Review
Martin Carr reviews the Scream: The TV Series Halloween Special… There is something distinctly old school about this feature film length Scream special which is reassuring, run of the mill but nonetheless engaging stuff. Acting as a bridge between seasons two and three, this here is proper haunted house, isolated island cliché with lashings of […]
Gotham Season 3 Episode 5 Review – ‘Anything For You’
Martin Carr reviews the fifth episode of Gotham season 3… Gotham’s web is spreading wider. If ‘Rise of the Villains’ foreshadowed, gave cohesion and made Gotham a viable viewing proposition, then ‘Mad City’ is shaping up to be the perfect companion piece. There appears to be no episodic structure rather a meandering combination of plot […]
Supergirl Season 2 Episode 2 Review – ‘The Last Children of Krypton’
Martin Carr reviews the second episode of Supergirl season 2… Unfortunately episode two of season two is copybook stuff. After that barnstormer however anything was likely to feel like an anti-climax, but somehow I expected more than this. Not there is anything particularly bad about ‘The Last Children of Krypton’, just that they give us […]
Blu-ray Review – 52 Pick-Up (1986)
52 Pick-Up, 1986. Directed by John Frankenheimer. Starring Roy Scheider, Ann-Margret, Vanity, Kelly Preston, John Glover, Robert Trebor, Clarence Williams III, Kelly Preston. SYNOPSIS: A cheating husband is blackmailed by a gang who threaten to publicly reveal his affair, thwarting his politically ambitious wife’s plans and forcing him to take matters into his own hands. […]
DVD Review – Burnt Offerings (1976)
Burnt Offerings, 1976. Directed by Dan Curtis. Starring Oliver Reed, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith, Bette Davis, Eileen Heckart and Lee Montgomery. SYNOPSIS: A family rent a large house for the summer, unaware that it feeds off the energy of any occupants who suffer any injuries. The 1970s was a very rich time for horror movies, […]
Clint Eastwood to direct Jessica Buchanan story Impossible Odds
Clint Eastwood is set to bring another real life story to the screen with his next movie, with THR reporting that he has signed on to direct Impossible Odds, which tells the tale of kidnapped American aid worker Jessica Buchanan. Based on the memoir from Buchanan, her husband Erik Landemalm and Anthony Flacco and scripted […]
Dancing Ledge and HarperCollins bringing Alistair MacLean’s novels to TV as event series
Deadline is reporting that Dancing Ledge Productions and publisher HarperCollins are partnering up for a series of TV adaptations of the novels of legendary British thriller writer Alistair MacLean. The site reports that each project will be structured as a four or six-part even series, beginning with San Andreas, his 1984 book set on board […]
