Matt Rodgers on the best Mission: Impossible moments… The ability for the Mission: Impossible franchise to subvert the law of diminishing returns, in terms of both box-office and quality, as well as keeping the fuse lit under Tom Cruise’s dimming star power, is surely down to the stylistically diverse way in which the films are […]
Second Opinion – Deadpool 2 (2018)
Deadpool 2, 2018 Directed by David Leitch. Starring Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin, Julian Dennison, Zazie Beetz, Morena Baccarin, Brianna Hildebrand, T.J. Miller, Karan Soni, Leslie Uggams, Eddie Marsan, Stefan Kapicic, Bill Skarsgård, Terry Crews, Shioli Kutsuna, Lewis Tan, Jack Kesy, Hayley Sales, and Rob Delaney. SYNOPSIS: With $783 million at the global box-office, more than […]
David Gordon Green to bring Friday Night Lights back to the big screen
HG Bissinger’s book Friday Night Lights has already spawned the brilliant 2004 Billy Bob Thornton movie of the same name, plus a superior television series that ran for five seasons, bringing Michael B. Jordan, Jessie Plemons, and Kyle Chandler as the inimitable Coach Eric Taylor, to the attention of the world. Now Variety are reporting that […]
Warner Bros. sets Sherlock Holmes 3 for 2020
It has been seven years since 2011’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, with rumours of a third instalment diminishing over the course of time, but now in a twist worthy of the deerstalker sporting detective, Warner Bros. have announced a further outing in 2020. According to Empire, only Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law […]
Nic Cage’s Cannes cult thriller Mandy secures distribution
Playing in The Director’s Fortnight at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Nicolas Cage’s revenge drama Mandy has now secured distribution in all international territories, according to XYZ Films. Directed by Panos Cosmatos, Mandy is set in the wilderness of 1983, where Red Miller (Nicolas Cage) must deal with the fallout of an unhinged religious cult that […]
Movie Review – Entebbe (2018)
Entebbe, 2018. Directed by Jose Padilha. Starring Rosamund Pike, Daniel Brühl, Eddie Marsan, Denis Ménochet, Nonso Anozie, and Lior Ashkenazi. SYNOPSIS: In July 1976, two terrorists (Rosamund Pike and Daniel Brühl) linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, hijacked an Air France passenger plane, forcing it to land at Entebbe airport in Uganda. Chronicling the […]
Avengers: Infinity Bawl – The Most Emotional Moments in the MCU
Matt Rodgers on the most emotional moments in the Marvel Cinematic Universe… There was a phase in my own cinematic universe when I couldn’t tell you who Tony Stark was, let alone a Groot, Thanos, or Stephen Strange. So it’s testament to the mega-budget jigsaw puzzle which Marvel have created, that not only have I […]
Movie Review – No Stone Unturned (2017)
No Stone Unturned, 2017. Written and Directed by Alex Gibney SYNOPSIS: An in-depth examination of the unsolved pub massacre that took place in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland, as the locals were watching World Cup ’94. Revered documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney has deconstructed icons (The Armstrong Lie, Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine) and shined a […]
The X-Files Season 11 Episode 1 Review – ‘My Struggle III’
Matt Rodgers reviews the first episode of The X-Files season 11… There are two huge surprises to be found in the opening hour of this eleventh trip to the basement of the FBI headquarters; one is the fact that it even exists at all after the terrible tenth season, and the second is a disturbing […]
Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin return in Sicario 2: Soldado trailer
Colombia Pictures have released the first trailer for the next installment of what they’re calling ‘the Sicario saga’. An indirect sequel to the Denis Villeneuve thriller, Sicario 2: Soldado, will see Benicio Del Toro’s Alejandro Gillick return, alongside Josh Brolin’s CIA Agent, Matt Graver. The pair finding themselves forming an uneasy co-dependency as the narcotics fuelled border […]
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