Tom Jolliffe looks back at the late great Robbie Coltrane’s duo of farcical Catholic capers, Nuns on the Run and The Pope Must Die… The late great Robbie Coltrane’s passing came as a sad surprise to many. Coltrane’s comedic talents were offset by an ability to play tough characters, or those with a hearty dose […]
Movie Review – Accident Man: Hitman’s Holiday (2022)
Accident Man: Hitman’s Holiday, 2022. Directed by the Kirby Brothers. Starring Scott Adkins, Ray Stevenson, Perry Benson, Sarah Chang, George Fouracres, Flaminia Cinque, Andreas Nguyen and Beau Fowler. SYNOPSIS: The Accident Man, is back and this time he must beat the top assassins in the world, to protect the ungrateful son of a mafia boss, save […]
With Wakanda Forever on the horizon Black Adam ekes out another $18.5M atop the box office
Black Adam‘s final stand at the top of the U.S. box-office managed to earn the DCEU blockbuster a further $18.5 million before Black Panther: Wakanda Forever roars into town next weekend. Dwayne Johnson’s 15-years in the making origin story held quite well in the face of little-to-no competition, taking its domestic tally to $137 million. […]
Bruce Willis takes on terrorists at Christmas again in Detective Knight: Redemption trailer
Lionsgate has released a poster and trailer for the action thriller sequel Detective Knight: Redemption. Written and directed by Edward Drake, the film sees Bruce Willis returning as James Knight, and follows the ex-cop as finds himself at the centre of a jailbreak led by a fanatic known as The Christmas Bomber who is terrorising […]
More posters and promos for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever arrive online
There’s a new Marvel movie incoming this week, and so of course the Disney marketing machine has been working overdrive this weekend to remind us all with the release of a bunch of new promos and posters for Ryan Coogler’s hotly-anticipated Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Check them out here… In Marvel Studios’ “Black Panther: Wakanda […]
The Dark Lord rises with The Lord of the Rings Sauron collectible statue from Iron Studios
Sideshow and Iron Studios have unveiled the 1:10 scale limited edition Sauron statue which is inspired by the appearance of the Dark Lord in Peter Jackson’s epic fantasy trilogy The Lord of the Rings. The collectible is available to pre-order now, priced at $290; take a look here… Sideshow and Iron Studios present the latest […]
Jean-Claude Van Damme to lead neo-noir action thriller Darkness of Man
Fresh off the announcement of Silent Kill, Jean-Claude Van Damme has added another project to his upcoming slate, with THR reporting that the action legend set to lead the neo-noir action thriller Darkness of Man. Directed by James Cullen Bressack (Fortress, Hot Seat), the film is said to be more dramatic in nature to Van […]
Thriller Nr. 10 gets a trailer and poster from Drafthouse Films
Drafthouse Films has released a poster and trailer for writer-director Alex van Warmerdam’s upcoming thriller Nr. 10. The film follows Gunter (Tom Dewispelaere), a man who was raised by foster parents after being found abandoned in a forest with no memory. Decades later, he is living an normal life, until a mysterious stranger on the […]
Henry Selick wants you to know that Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas is actually his film
When The Nightmare Before Christmas dropped in 1993, the film found itself marketed as a Tim Burton project, despite the fact that filmmaker Henry Selick was the one who ultimately directed the stop motion animated favourite. Now, almost three decades on, Selick wants to clear up any misconceptions about The Nightmare Before Christmas, with the […]
Emma Corrin and Jack O’Connell get steamy in Lady Chatterley’s Lover trailer
Netflix has debuted the first trailer and a poster for director Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s romantic drama Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Based on D.H. Lawrence’s classic novel, the film stars Emma Corrin as Lady Constance Chatterley, a woman living an unhappy life of wealth and privilege until she begins an affair with the estate’s gamekeeper Oliver (Jack […]
