While the world was getting excited about a return to Westeros, HBO announced that the equally duplicitous and scheming town of Monterey, California would be open for visitors from June 10th, by releasing the first teaser for Big Little Lies Season 2, which you can now watch here… All seven episodes of season 2 are […]
Donald Glover’s Guava Island film to hit Amazon Prime this weekend
Anything Donald Glover does these days is deserving of our attention. The Atlanta, This Is America, and Lion King elect has just screened his new film Guava Island at the Coachella music festival, before the surprise announcement came that it’d be available to stream this weekend on Amazon Prime Video. Directed by Hiro Murai, who […]
Second Opinion – Mid90s (2018)
Mid90s, 2018. Directed by Jonah Hill. Starring Sunny Suljic, Lucas Hedges, Olan Prenatt, Na-kel Smith, Gio Galicia, Ryder McLaughlin, Jerrod Carmichael, and Katherine Waterston. SYNOPSIS: Stevie (Sunny Suljic) is just like a lot of other boys growing up in 90s Los Angeles; he has an oppressive older brother (Lucas Hedges) who won’t let him touch […]
Tim Burton suggests Beetlejuice 2 may remain stuck in purgatory forever
A simple search on this very website will tell you that over the years there have been rumours abound that Tim Burton and Michael Keaton would once again open the door to the afterlife and utter “Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse”, summoning a sequel to their 1988 hit Beetlejuice. While doing the rounds for their recent reunion […]
Shazam! buries Pet Sematary with $53 million at the US box office, $158.6 million worldwide
It was another triumphant week at the top of the US box office for Warner Bros. and DC, as Shazam! followed in the blockbusting footsteps of Aquaman, and topped the weekend box office with $55.3 million (or $56.8 million including previews). While these might not seem like the kind of numbers posted by his spandex […]
Movie Review – Last Breath (2019)
Last Breath, 2019. Directed by Richard da Costa and Alex Parkinson. SYNOPSIS: On a deep sea diving expedition in 2012, Chris Lemons was a member of the dozen strong crew who’d descend beneath the crashing waves of the North Sea to repair a seabed structure. However, on this particular night, years of meticulous training are […]
Movie Review – Dumbo (2019)
Dumbo, 2019. Directed by Tim Burton. Starring Colin Farrell, Michael Keaton, Eva Green, Danny DeVito, Nico Parker, Alan Arkin, Finley Hobbins, Joseph Gatt, DeObia Oparei, Roshan Seth, Sharon Rooney, and Douglas Reith. SYNOPSIS: A struggling circus are aghast to discover that their potential star attraction has been born with oversized ears, but little do they […]
Michael B. Jordan to play 400 year old man in Methuselah
You could never accuse Michael B. Jordan of resting on his laurels. Fresh off the back of a stellar 2018, which saw him become a Thanos rivaling villain of depth with Black Panther‘s Killmonger, and continue the Rocky legacy with the fantastic Creed II, Deadline is reporting that he has added another project to his […]
Hellboy featurette explores the journey from comics to the big screen
It’s a little over two weeks until Neil Marshall (The Descent) takes the flaming baton from Guillermo del Toro and reboots the character of Hellboy, this time in the big red guise of Stranger Things‘ star David Harbour, who you can hear in this featurette talking about the excitement of transferring the “Dark, foreboding horror […]
Movie Review – The Kindergarten Teacher (2019)
The Kindergarten Teacher, 2019. Directed by Sara Colangelo. Starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gael García Bernal, Parker Sevak, Michael Chernus, Rosa Salazar, Anna Baryshnikov, Daisy Tahan, Ato Blankson-Wood. SYNOPSIS: Lisa Spinelli (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is an unhappy kindergarten teacher in New York, who suddenly becomes obsessed with one of her students whom she believes is a child prodigy. The Kindergarten Teacher is one of […]