Blue Ruin, 2013. Written and directed by Jeremy Saulnier. Starring Macon Blair, Devin Ratray, Amy Hargreaves, Kevin Kolack and Eve Plumb. SYNOPSIS: A mysterious outsider’s quiet life is turned upside down when he returns to his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance. Proving himself an amateur assassin, he winds up in a brutal fight […]
Toby Jones and Bill Nighy to star in Dad’s Army film
According to The Sunday Times, Toby Jones (Berberian Sound Studio, Captain America: The First Avenger) and Bill Nighy (About Time, I, Frankenstein) have signed on to appear in a big screen version of the classic British sitcom Dad’s Army. The report claims that Jones will play Captain Mainwaring and Nighy Sergeant Wilson, the two characters […]
Marvel’s Netflix series to explore “the street level noir side of the Marvel Universe”
Last year, Marvel Studios announced that it was expanding its TV output beyond Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. by partnering up with Netflix for five miniseries, with Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist and Luke Cage building to a small screen team-up in The Defenders.During an interview with Kevin Smith on his podcast Fatman on Batman (via ComicBook), […]
The Week in Spandex – Avengers: Age of Ultron, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Batman vs. Superman, The Fantastic Four, Arrow, Batman Beyond and more
Our weekly round up of all the latest stories from the world of screen superheroes, including Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America 3, Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ant-Man, Doctor Strange, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., The Amazing Spider-Man 2, X-Men: Days of Future Past, The Fantastic Four, Batman vs. Superman, Arrow, Gotham, […]
Director Ryan Coogler discusses his Rocky spin-off Creed
Last year it was revealed that director Ryan Coogler will reunite with his Fruitvale Station star and upcoming Human Torch Michael B. Jordan for Creed, a spin-off of the Rocky franchise centred around the grandson of the late Apollo (Carl Weathers) as he is taken under the wing of the Italian Stallion (the returning Sylvester […]
Lorenzo di Bonaventura options Mark Millar’s MPH
After reaching a deal with Fox a couple of weeks ago for an adaptation of his superhero series Superior, The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that comic book writer Mark Millar’s upcoming title MPH has been optioned by producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Transformers, G.I. Joe). “(Lorenzo’s) one of the few real moguls in the industry, having […]
Movie Review – Transcendence (2014)
Transcendence, 2014. Directed by Wally Pfister. Starring Johnny Depp, Morgan Freeman, Rebecca Hall, Paul Bettany, Cillian Murphy, Kate Mara and Clifton Collins Jr. SYNOPSIS: As Dr. Will Caster works toward his goal of creating an omniscient, sentient machine, a radical anti-technology organization fights to prevent him from establishing a world where computers can transcend the […]
Simon Kinberg on expanding Fox’s Marvel universe, bringing X-Men to TV, and an R-rated Deadpool movie
Having done its best to replicate Marvel Studios’ shared universe approach by bringing together the original X-Men and First Class casts for X-Men: Days of Future Past, it now seems that 20th Century Fox could be set to follow Marvel’s expansion onto the small screen. Chatting with Collider, writer and producer Simon Kinberg (Fox’s main […]
Lucasfilm confirms new Star Wars canon, rebooting the Expanded Universe
It was expected – and hinted at by Simon Kinberg recently – but now it’s official: J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: Episode VII and Disney’s subsequent entries in the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy will tell an original story, rather than taking their cues from the established continuity of the Expanded Universe. Furthermore, Lucasfilm has confirmed that […]
Jason Voorhees heading to the small screen for Friday the 13th TV series
We know that Jason Voorhees will be heading back to cinemas in 2015 for the thirteenth instalment of the Friday the 13th franchise, but it appears that masked monster is also set to terrorise Crystal Lake campers on the small screen, with Deadline revealing that Bill Basso (Terminator) and Jordu Schell (Avatar) are busy writing […]
