UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 9th to Sunday 11th January 2015… Despite taking a pasting from critics, Liam Neeson’s third outing as former CIA agent Bryan Mills proved to be a hit with audiences as Taken 3 took the UK box office by storm with an opening weekend […]
Wes Anderson, Clint Eastwood, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Richard Linklater and Morten Tyldum nominated for the DGA Award
The Director’s Guild of America has announced the nominees for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film, with Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel), Clint Eastwood (American Sniper), Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman), Richard Linklater (Boyhood) and Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game) set to contest the award. “In a year full of excellent […]
Kevin Smith goes beardless again for Yoga Hosers prosthetics
Having wrapped principal photography on Yoga Hosers, Kevin Smith is currently shooting some visual effects for the second chapter of his True North Trilogy.With Smith himself portraying one of the film’s monsters, he’s had to shave his trademark beard in order for the necessary prosthetics to be applied, and the filmmaker has taken to Twitter […]
CBS chairman talks Supergirl TV series
There’s been a lot of DC news coming out of the Television Critics Association press tour this week – including news that Arrow and The Flash have been renewed, a spin-off centred on The Atom could be in the works, and a Vixen animated series is on the horizon. Now we have some details about […]
Marc Guggenheim discusses The CW’s new DC animated series Vixen, and crossing over with Arrow and The Flash
During the Television Critics Association press tour, it was announced that The CW is expanding its DC universe with an animated series based around the character of Vixen, which will take place in the same continuity as the hit superhero shows Arrow and The Flash. During an interview with Comic Book Resources, executive producer Marc […]
Blu-ray Review – God’s Pocket (2014)
God’s Pocket, 2014.Directed by John Slattery. Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christina Hendricks, Eddie Marsan, Richard Jenkins, John Turturro, Caleb Landry Jones, Jack O’Connell and Bill Buell.SYNOPSIS:In the working-class Philadelphia district of God’s Pocket, the suspicions of the residents are raised when a young manual labourer dies on site. His step-father attempts to cover the traces […]
Rob Gorrie to play Robin’s father John Grayson in Gotham
Yesterday we brought you some images from the Haly’s Circus set of Gotham’s sixteenth episode ‘The Blind Fortune Teller’, which will see the introduction of The Flying Graysons. Now, thanks to ComicBook, we know the identity of the actor cast as the as-yet-unborn Dick Grayson’s father John, with the site reporting that Rob Gorrie (As […]
Introducing Marvel’s Age of Miracles
Pim Razenberg on Marvel’s Age of Miracles… Last week’s Ant-Man teaser introduced worldwide audiences to the character of Scott Lang, a con-man who’s on his way to become part of something greater than himself. The character’s story arc greatly resembles that of Lang’s Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) colleague Tony Stark: both men are presented as […]
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 hits $700 million worldwide
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 has become the ninth film of 2014 to cross $700 million at the global box office, with the Jennifer Lawrence-headlined sequel pushing its worldwide haul to $701.1 million this past weekend. The penultimate chapter of The Hunger Games franchise is now the second-highest grossing instalment, having overtaken the […]
Birdman vs Exodus: Gods and Kings
D.J. Haza on Birdman and Exodus: Gods and Kings… It’s that time of year again when the film world is buzzing with whispers, rumours, hot tips and fan favourites for Oscar success. I ventured out to the cinema this week to see two very different films – Alejandro Inarritu’s Birdman and Ridley Scott’s Exodus: Gods […]
