Deadline is reporting that Paramount Pictures has closed a deal for Erik Larson’s book The Devil In The White City: Murder, Magic And Madness At The Fair That Changed America, with the film adaptation set to reunite Leonardo DiCaprio with director Martin Scorsese. The film will see DiCaprio starring as Dr. HH Holmes, a nineteenth […]
How the Star Wars franchise keeps in pulling in billions
As a generation of Star Wars fanatics await the return of one the biggest movie franchises of all time with the Christmas release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens (albeit with that controversial crossguard lightsaber), we got thinking – just how big is the Star Wars franchise? When Harrison Ford, Luke Hamill and Carrie Fisher […]
Arrow adds Parker Young and Rutina Wesley to its cast for season 4
The CW’s Arrow has added two new recurring guest stars to its cast for the upcoming fourth season, with Parker Young (Enlisted) and Rutina Wesley (Hannibal) both signing on to appear. According to ET Online, Young will play Alex Davis, a love interest for Willa Holland’s Thea Queen, The Wrap is reporting that Wesley will […]
Fox “remains committed” to Fantastic Four despite poor reception to the reboot
It’s fair to say that 20th Century Fox hasn’t had much success with its attempt to reboot the Fantastic Four franchise, with the Josh Trank-directed film opening to some of the worst reviews for a comic book movie, as well as a feeble opening weekend of just $60.3 million worldwide. The disasterous reception to Fantastic […]
Suicide Squad’s Jared Leto teases The Killing Joke on Instagram?
Suicide Squad star Jared Leto has taken to Instagram to post a short video of his shadow, which may (or may not) alude to one of the Joker’s most iconic looks from Alan Moore and Brian Bollan’s Batman: The Killing Joke… https://instagram.com/p/6MG6NgTBaQ/ For comparison, here’s an image of The Joker wearing a very similar […]
The Strain Season 2 Episode 4 Review – ‘Silver Angel’
Martin Carr reviews the fourth episode of The Strain season 2… My experience of Mexican wrestling movies is limited to Nacho Libre. That ‘comedy’ which proved to me Jack Black should stick to what he does best. By which I mean singing and Kung Fu Panda sequels. That The Strain opens on just such a […]
DVD Review – Cub (2014)
Cub, 2014. Directed by Jonas Govaerts. Starring Maurice Luijten, Evelien Bosmans, Titus De Voogdt, Stef Aerts, Gill Eeckelaert and Ricko Otto. SYNOPSIS: A 12-year-old boy with a vivid imagination goes off into the woods on a scout camp, only to discover that his imagination may not be that overactive at all. Evoking the backwoods horrors of The […]
Scream: The TV Series Season 1 Episode 6 Review – ‘Betrayed’
Martin Carr reviews the sixth episode of Scream: The TV Series… Amadeus Serafini is an anomaly. Part Christian Slater during his Nicholson phase, with a smidgen of Jason Patric pre Speed 2 and post Lost Boys. Noticeable only for his absence from my reviews, Serafini has floated around on the periphery having little impact for […]
Blu-ray Review – Blame It on Rio (1984)
Blame It on Rio, 1984. Directed by Stanley Donen. Starring Michael Caine, Joseph Bologna, Michelle Johnson, Demi Moore, Valerie Harper and José Lewgoy. SYNOPSIS: A married middle-aged man begins an affair with his best friend’s teenage daughter whilst on holiday in Rio. Michael Caine is an unusual choice for a romantic lead but Blame It […]
Wonder Woman enlists Oscar-winning VFX supervisor
As Warner Bros. gears up to go into production on Wonder Woman this autumn, Variety is reporting that the film has enlisted an Oscar-winning VFX supervisor in Bill Westenhofer. Westenhofer and his team at Rhythm and Hues Studios received the Oscar for Best Achievement in Visual effects for both The Golden Compass and Life of […]
