Keep On Keepin’ On, 2014. Directed by Alan Hicks. SYNOPSIS: A documentary that follows jazz legend Clark Terry over four years to document the mentorship between Terry and 23-year-old blind piano prodigy Justin Kauflin as the young man prepares to compete in an elite, international competition. Do you still have greasy lips? A strange question […]

In Darkness We Fall (Spain: La cueva), 2014. Directed by Alfredo Montero. Starring Marta Castellote, Xoel Fernández, Eva García-Vacas, Marcos Ortiz and Jorge Páez. SYNOPSIS: Five friends go unannounced on a vacation. Soon they discover a cave entrance, which they decide to explore. This simple but sufficiently scary Spanish horror (known as La cueva in […]

Wish I Was Here, 2014. Directed by Zach Braff. Starring Zach Braff, Kate Hudson, Mandy Patinkin, Joey King, Pierce Gagnon, Josh Gad, Ashley Greene, Donald Faison, Michael Weston, James Avery and Jim Parsons. SYNOPSIS: Aidan Bloom is a 35-year-old man who finds himself at major crossroads, which forces him to examine his life, his career, […]

With the new fall season of television set to kick off in the next couple of weeks, FOX is hoping to see a ratings boost after suffering a slump these past few months. With the long-awaited The Simpsons / Family Guy crossover set to debut in just a couple of weeks, as well as many other […]

After years in front of the camera with her roles in Dawson’s Creek, The Gift and Batman Begins, Katie Holmes has now set her sights on getting behind the camera and is set to direct an adaptation of Annie Weatherwax’s debut novel All We Had, the story of a poverty-striken mother and daughter who find […]

In a strange Marvel team-up, Elizabeth Olsen (Avengers: Age of Ultron, Godzilla) has signed on to join Tom “Loki” Hiddleston (The Avengers, Only Lovers Left Alive) in the upcoming Hank Williams biopic, I Saw The Light. Olsen has been signed to play Williams’ wife, Audrey Mae, in the film, which is being co-produced by Brett […]

Lit Reactor today brings news that Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk’s 2007 novel Rant is to be adapted for the screen by actor/director James Franco (Spider-Man, Pineapple Express), who has picked up the rights. The author is quoted as saying: “As of last night we’ve finalized a deal for James Franco to option my novel […]

After news reached us earlier in the week that Oscar-winner Morgan Freeman is to star in Ted 2, it has emerged over the last 24 hours that the actor is keeping himself even busier, with word that the actor has become the first actor signed on to co-star ithe remake of Ben-Hur. MGM and Paramount’s upcoming […]

After their work together in The Wire, Idris Elba and Dominic West are to reunite and lend their voices to Disney and Pixar’s Finding Dory, the long-awaited sequel to 2003’s smash-hit Finding Nemo. “We’re both in the sequel to ‘Finding Nemo’” West revealed in an interview this week with Shortlist, “so we were recording that.” […]

After their huge critical and box-office acclaim opposite each other in The Wolf of Wall Street from Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill are set to re-team on American Nightmare: The Ballad of Richard Jewell, a film based on the life of Richard Jewell, a American security guard who became a suspect in the […]