Blumhouse Productions and Universal Pictures have tapped Gerard McMurray (Burning Sands) to direct the as-yet-untitled fourth entry in The Purge franchise. Details on the fourth movie are being kept under wraps, but it will be based on a script by James DeMonaco, writer-director of The Purge and its sequels The Purge: Anarchy and The Purge: […]
UnReal creator to make feature directorial debut with Yazidi women movie
Deadline is reporting that Sarah Gertrude Shapiro, creator of the Lifetime series UnReal, is set to make her feature directorial debut with a movie about the Yazidi, a group of heroic female fighters and survivors of the Yazidi genocide who have taken up arms to battle ISIS. According to the site, Shapiro is currently deep […]
The Mist Season 1 Episode 5 Review – ‘The Waiting Room’
Martin Carr reviews the fifth episode of The Mist… As the tagline suggests this is an episode of contemplation, revelation and character building. Incorporating flashbacks, two-handed dialogue scenes and minimal supernatural bravado The Mist focuses on keeping it simple. Playing to a strength which is inherent in smaller scale television shows, it thrives on drip […]
SDCC: New image from the Saw sequel Jigsaw
As part of their San Diego Comic-Con preview, Entertainment Weekly has released a new image from Jigsaw which sees Mitch (Mandela van Peebles), Anna (Laura Vandervoort), Ryan (Paul Braunstein), Carly (Brittany Allen) caught in a potentially deadly trap along with a fifth victim who won’t be revealed until the release of eighth instalment in the Saw franchise; take […]
Felicity Jones to play Ruth Bader Ginsburg in On the Basis of Sex
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story star Felicity Jones has signed on to portray Supreme Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the biopic On the Basis of Sex, which is being directed by Mimi Leder from Daniel Stiepleman’s Black List script. Variety reports that the film will tell the story of Ginsburg, who was appointed to […]
Short Film Reviews – Guerrilla, Paper Kids and American Virus
Tom Jolliffe reviews Shane Ryan’s Guerrilla, Paper Kids and American Virus… Independent American film-maker Shane Ryan, has tended to court a degree of controversy throughout his career. He’s directed a number of features, and shorts. A common strand running through them is a recurring theme of isolation, of being an outsider, and the dark corners […]
Preacher Season 2 Episode 5 Review – ‘Dallas’
Martin Carr reviews the fifth episode of Preacher season 2… There is nothing like the sight of a sweat baked torture room for setting the tone of an episode. Retribution hangs in the air from a harness, suspending our man of the moment Viktor as an undecided Preacher selects his implement of impalement. Words of […]
The Strain Season 4 Episode 1 Review – ‘The Worm Turns’
Martin Carr reviews the season 4 premiere of The Strain… With a rosy nuclear winter turning daylight to permanent dusk, munchers walking the streets and Eldritch Palmer possessed things could be better. Manhattan is cloaked in a doom and gloom which extends beyond a lack of food, adequate sanitation and makeshift rationing centre. Humanity is […]
Dave Bautista praises the Russos’ handling of the Guardians of the Galaxy in Avengers: Infinity War
Following this past weekend’s D23 panel where Marvel unveiled the very first footage from Avengers: Infinity War, Good Morning America caught up with Guardians of the Galaxy star Dave Bautista, who was full of praise for directors Anthony and Joe Russo and their handling of Drax and company in the hotly-anticipated superhero epic. “My biggest, […]
Rian Johnson compares Star Wars: The Last Jedi to the Original Trilogy
While J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: The Force Awakens was an enormous success at the box office, one of the biggest criticisms aimed at the film was that it adhered to closely to the plot of Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. And, with December’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi said to be taking the […]
