Following Joel Schumacher’s 1997 franchise killer Batman & Robin, Warner Bros. launched several attempts to reboot the Dark Knight prior to Christopher Nolan’s successful resurrection of the series with Batman Begins. In August 2000, while Darren Aronofsky and Frank Miller were devloping an adaptation of Miller’s Batman: Year One, the studio enlisted director Boaz Yakin […]
DVD Review – The Loft (2015)
The Loft, 2015. Directed by Erik Van Looy. Starring Karl Urban, James Marsden, Wentworth Miller, Eric Stonestreet, Valerie Cruz, Isabel Lucas, Elaine Cassidy, Matthias Schoenaerts and Rachael Taylor. SYNOPSIS: A group of married men rent a city penthouse to indulge in extra marital affairs but it all goes disastrously wrong when a dead body is discovered. The […]
DVD Review – Wild Tales (2015)
Wild Tales, 2015. Directed by Damián Szifron. Starring Darío Grandinetti, María Marull, Mónica Villa, Ricardo Darín and Erica Rivas. SYNOPSIS: Six stories of revenge and losing your cool when everything is stacked up against you. Anthology films have been reasonably well served recently, if not always in quality then at least in number. Argentinean production Wild Tales […]
Book Review – The Night Mayor by Kim Newman
Michelle Herbert reviews The Night Mayor by Kim Newman… The Night Mayor is set in a future reality, where films (known as flatties) are no longer watched on screens; instead people immerse themselves in Dreams where using virtual reality technology the viewer enters a Dream and becomes the main character following the storyline that has […]
Rumoured details on Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One
Back in April during Star Wars Celebration, Lucasfilm and director Gareth Edwards peeled back the curtain slightly on the first Star Wars spinoff movie, Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One, by showing a short teaser, as well as releasing a very brief official synopsis for the film: “A band of resistance fighters unite for a daring […]
Jurassic World shatters worldwide opening weekend record with $511 million haul
Following on from the news that Jurassic World has debuted in the States with the second-biggest ever opening weekend of $204.6 million, it’s now being reported that the Colin Trevorrow-directed sequel has shattered the global record with an astonishing $511.8 million haul around the globe – making it the first film to ever surpass the […]
Titan Comics secures Heroes Reborn license
Titan Comics has announced that it has secured the rights to publish comics based upon NBC’s upcoming Heroes event series Heroes Reborn, which is set to premiere on the U.S. network this fall. “Our new Heroes series is being created in close collaboration with the team behind the NBC show.” said Chris Teather, Publishing Director, […]
Horror Channel to broadcast Christopher Lee night
This week brought the rather sad news that British screen legend Sir Christopher Lee had passed away aged 93, and now the Horror Channel has announced that it is set to pay tribute to the iconic actor by clearing its post-9pm schedule on Thursday July 2nd for a special Christopher Lee night. 9pm – THE […]
Bradley Cooper’s Hyperion adaptation heading to Syfy
Bradley Cooper’s long-planned adaptation of Dan Simmons’ Hugo Award-wining sci-fi novel Hyperion is heading to Syfy as an event series. Cooper is set to produce alongside Graham King and Todd Phillipps, while Itamar Moses (Boardwalk Empire) will handle scripting duties. “It is an absolute honor to enter into the world created by Dan Simmons that […]
Disney-Pixar announces new voice cast for The Good Dinosaur
Back in 2013 it was announced that director Bob Peterson (Up) had been removed from Disney-Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur, and now following the release of the first trailer, it seems that the original voice cast for the prehistoric animated adventure has also been replaced. The film was originally set to feature the likes of Lucas […]