Sad news for Batman fans today as word has come longtime Batman voice actor Kevin Conroy has passed away. Details are scarce at the moment, but it seems he was suffering from an unspecified illness and passed away yesterday. Conroy has had a long acting career, from the stage, television and animation. His first major […]
J.D. Dillard’s Star Wars movie canned, teases Star Wars: TIE Fighter inspiration
J.D. Dillard will no longer direct a Star Wars movie, the filmmaker has confirmed. Known for his superhero film Sleight and survival horror Sweetheart, Dillard was set to helm a Star Wars film first announced in February 2020. Luke Cage writer Matt Owens was to pen the script. The filmmaker says that Lucasfilm will no […]
Ryan Reynolds opens up about his Dragon’s Lair video game adaptation
Ryan Reynolds looks to bring Dragon’s Lair to Netflix in a brand new way, and in a new interview with Collider, Reynolds took time out of promoting the Apple TV+ Christmas musical, Spirited to hype the innovative new adaptation of the 1983 video game. He starts by saying the project Reynolds is an” innovative take on […]
Holiday horror anthology The Christmas Tapes delivers a trailer, poster and images
Terror Films has released a trailer, poster and images for the horror anthology The Christmas Tapes which features four festive tales of terror and a deranged Santa Claus played by Vernon Wells of The Road Warrior and Commando fame. Check them out here… In Robert Livings and Randy Nundlall Jr.’s Christmas-Horror Anthology THE CHRISTMAS […]
Guillermo del Toro showcases At the Mountains of Madness test footage
Ever wondered what Guillermo del Toro meets H.P. Lovecraft would be like? Well, the filmmaker has offered fans a peek at what might have been with an Instagram post unveiling some test footage from his unmade Lovecraft adaptation At The Mountains Of Madness. For decades, the film was one of the many del Toro projects […]
Can The Last Mercenary kick off a renaissance for Jean-Claude Van Damme?
Tom Jolliffe looks at the upcoming Jean-Claude Van Damme Netflix vehicle, The Last Mercenary. Can we call it a comeback? In 2008, Jean-Claude Van Damme was some years deep into straight to DVD land, where mainstream interest has all but gone, leaving only the aficionados behind. For a number of years after his last theatrically […]
The A-Z of Action Movies: E-H
In part two of our action A-Z, we look at a selection of films beginning with E-H… After an action packed A-D of action films, what does the next batch of carnage have to offer? Once again I delve into an eclectic mix of cult favourites and obscure video specials, with an array of action […]
1971: Bleak, Uncompromising, Groundbreaking Violence in Cinema
Tom Jolliffe ventures back to 1971, a year full of gritty, hard hitting and iconic crime films… Does 1971 seem that long ago? Well guess what… It’s half a century ago. Looking back at the year in movies shows an array of trailblazing cinema, punctuated by a fascination in pessimism, gritty violence and uncompromising meanness. […]
Labyrinth at 35: Goblins, Bowie and Greatness
As Labyrinth turns 35, Tom Jolliffe looks back at one of the great cult films of the 80s… You remind me of the babe. What babe? The babe with the power… I could go on. To kids growing up in the 80’s, Jim Henson’s wizardry would prove defining. From The Muppets, to The Dark Crystal, […]
The John Cusack Pinnacle: Grosse Pointe Blank and High Fidelity
Tom Jolliffe looks at the two films that most typify John Cusack’s qualities, Grosse Pointe Blank and High Fidelity… Top five John Cusack films? Well, Say Anything has got to be there. Perhaps the thoroughly underrated Grifters? What else? Being John Malkovich has got to be in the running too. During Cusack’s rising years in […]
