The Girl with All the Gifts, 2016. Directed by Colm McCarthy. Starring Gemma Arterton, Glenn Close, Paddy Considine and Sennia Nanua. SYNOPSIS: A scientist and a teacher living in a dystopian future embark on a journey of survival with a special young girl named Melanie. The Girl with All the Gifts left me feeling cold upon first […]
Movie Review – Imperium (2016)
Imperium, 2016. Directed by Daniel Ragussis. Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Toni Collette, Tracy Letts, Burn Gorman, Sam Trammell, Nestor Carbonell, Chris Sullivan, Seth Numrich and Adam Meier. SYNOPSIS: Nate Foster (Daniel Radcliffe), a young, idealistic FBI agent, goes undercover to take down a radical right-wing terrorist group. The bright up-and-coming analyst must confront the challenge of […]
Second Opinion – Bridget Jones’s Baby (2016)
Bridget Jones’s Baby, 2016. Directed by Sharon Maguire. Starring Renee Zellwegger, Colin Firth, Patrick Dempsey, Emma Thompson, Jim Broadbent, Sarah Solemani, Gemma Jones and Jim Broadbent. SYNOPSIS: Bridget’s focus on single life is interrupted when she finds out she’s pregnant, and she’s not sure who the father is. Fifteen years ago the first Bridget Jones […]
Evangeline Lilly and Adam Scott to star in Netflix horror comedy Little Evil
THR is reporting that Evangeline Lilly (Ant-Man) and Adam Scott (Other People) have signed on to star in Little Evil, a horror-comedy from writer-director Eli Craig (Tucker and Dale vs Evil), which is being produced by Netflix. The film will follow Gary (Scott), who discovers that his new wife Samantha’s (Lilly) 6-year-old son is the […]
Movie Review – Kickboxer: Vengeance (2016)
Kickboxer: Vengeance, 2016. Directed by John Stockwell. Starring Jean Claude Van-Damme, Alain Moussi, Dave Bautista, Gina Carano, Georges St-Pierre, Sara Malakul Lane, Darren Shahlavi and Matthew Ziff. SYNOPSIS: When his brother is killed during a Muay Thai tournament, a martial artist heads to Thailand to seek revenge. Jean-Claude Van Damme made a name for himself in the late […]
Tom Cruise closes deal for Mission: Impossible 6 as pre-production resumes
Last month it was announced that Paramount had halted pre-production on M:I 6 Mission Impossible, the sixth instalment of the blockbuster spy franchise, owing to contractual disputes with producer and leading man Tom Cruise. However, it looks like the issues have now been ironed out, as The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Cruise is now […]
Movie Review – The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years (2016)
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years, 2016. Directed by Ron Howard. Starring Ron Howard, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon (archive footage) and George Harrison (archive footage). SYNOPSIS: Documentary about the Fab Four’s early years performing at sold-out venues around the world. The only other official documentary that’s ever been made […]
The Strain Season 3 Episode 3 Review – ‘First Born’
Martin Carr reviews the third episode of The Strain season 3… For fans of the book trilogy this is their episode. I say it because Quinlan remains a firm favourite of those who discovered The Strain, before television got their mucky little paws on the written word. What happens in and around those events this […]
Second Opinion – Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
Hunt for the Wilderpeople, 2016. Directed by Taika Waititi. Starring Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rima Te Wiata, Rachel House, Tioreore Ngatai-Melbourne, Oscar Knightley and Rhys Darby. SYNOPSIS: A national manhunt is ordered for a rebellious kid and his foster uncle who go missing in the wild New Zealand bush. Hunt for the Wilderpeople occupies a strange place, that purgatory […]
The Strain Season 3 Episode 2 Review – ‘Bad White’
Martin Carr reviews the second episode of The Strain season 3… Like a Formula One team in those crucial warm up laps The Strain is making final adjustments. Practice laps, months of planning and untold amounts of money have been spent to ensure things go smoothly. That ultimately is how season three feels right now […]
