UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 22nd May to Sunday 24th May 2015… Disney and director Brad Bird’s Tomorrowland scored a soft opening in the US over Memorial Day Weekend with just $40.7 million, and it hasn’t fared too well on these shores either, with the sci-fi blockbuster opening […]
Movie Review – The Connection (2014)
The Connection (a.k.a. La French), 2014. Directed by Cédric Jimenez Starring Jean Dujardin, Gilles Lellouche, Céline Sallette, Mélanie Doutey, Guillaume Gouix, Benoît Magimel, Bruno Todeschini, Moussa Maaskri and Féodor Atkine. SYNOPSIS: A French police magistrate spends years trying to take down one of the country’s most powerful drug rings. If La French succeeds at anything […]
Bryan Singer reveals that Caliban will appear in X-Men: Apocalypse
It looks like we can add another mutant to the ever-growing roster for X-Men: Apocalypse, with Bryan Singer revealing via Instagram that Caliban is set to feature in the 2016 sequel. Singer posted the following set photo, with the caption “Shooting Caliban’s place of ‘business’… A member of the Morlocks with the ability to sense […]
Daredevil is the highest-rated show on Netflix
Well, it’s official. The Marvel Cinematic Universe has scored another huge hit with its first foray into the world of streaming content, with the 13-episode Daredevil series now the highest-rated show on Netflix. Business Insider reports that Daredevil currently has a 4.6 out of 5 rating, which puts it 0.1 points ahead of House of […]
M. Night Shyamalan defends Avatar: The Last Airbender
During a promotional interview with IGN for his new TV series Wayward Pines, director M. Night Shyamalan got onto the topic of adaptations, and in particular his big screen take on Avatar: The Last Airbender and the negative reception to the movie from both fans and even the animated series’ creators. “It’s really weird because […]
Watch the short film Predator: Dark Ages
Following its screening at the MCM London Comic-Con this past weekend, the crowd-funded fan short Predator: Dark Ages has now been released online, and you can check out the entire film right here… Set during the Crusades, the faith & fighting skills of a group of Templar Knights is put to the test when they […]
Ryan Reynolds on whether we’ll see Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine in Deadpool
We know that Hugh Jackman is set to don the claws for one last time in 2017’s third Wolverine movie, but as yet we’ve not heard whether he’ll be portraying the fan favourite mutant in Fox’s trio of 2016 releases: X-Men: Apocalypse, Deadpool and Gambit. Well, during a chat with News.com.au, the Merc with a […]
Harley Quinn and friends taking a Road Trip this August
Harley Quinn, Catwoman and Poison Ivy are set to take a road trip this summer courtesy of Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti in Harley Quinn Road Trip Special #1, which is set to arrive this August… It’s the great American summer tradition, but you’ve never seen a road trip quite like this before! Harley, Ivy, […]
Cary Fukunaga vacates the director’s chair on It
The upcoming adaptation of Stephen King’s horror classic It may have found its Pennywise in British actor Will Poulter (We’re the Millers), but now comes word that the project has lost its director. According to The Wrap, Cary Fukunaga (True Detective) has vacated the director’s chair on the film, which means that production – which […]
Two Casino Movies That Get It Right
Casinos are the ultimate fantasy destination. Every single player that enters the gaming area harbors the fantasy that this time could be the time that they hit it big. This happens whether the player is a penny slot player, sitting at the $100 minimum blackjack table, or betting “cranberries” at baccarat. Filmmakers have long tried […]
