German Concentration Camps Factual Survey Directed by Sidney Bernstein Edited by Stewart McAllister, Peter Tanner and Marcel Cohen with treatment advice by Alfred Hitchcock SYNOPSIS: An official documentary about German atrocities and the concentration camps compiled with footage shot by combat and newsreel cameramen accompanying troops as they liberated occupied Europe Last year, Night Will […]
Movie Review – Cry of the City (1948)
Cry of the City, 1948 Directed by Robert Siodmak. Starring Richard Conte, Victor Mature, Berry Kroeger, Shelley Winters and Debra Paget. SYNOPSIS: Adapted from the novel The Chair for Martin Rome by Henry Edward Helseth, the film tells the story of a charismatic criminal and his nemesis, Lieutenant Candella… Remember Barzini? The old-crone who was taken out on the […]
Jason Clarke talks John Connor role in Terminator Genisys, tells critics of reboot to “bear with it”
Warning: Spoilers for Terminator Genisys follow. Although not if you watched yesterday’s trailer… Yesterday Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions dropped the latest trailer for Alan Taylor’s upcoming Terminator reboot Terminator Genisys, which revealed a pretty huge plot point concerning John Connor. Yes, as we saw yesterday, the leader of the human resistance is now Skynet’s […]
Joss Whedon calls Jurassic World clip “70’s era sexist”
Earlier this week Universal Pictures released the first clip from Jurassic World, which featured a scene between Chris Pratt’s Owen and Bryce Dallas Howard’s Claire. The scene – which you can watch here – came in for plenty of criticism online, and even Avengers: Age of Ultron director Joss Whedon has entered the fray, branding […]
Deja Vu: Isn’t Jurassic World just Deep Blue Sea with dinosaurs?
Anghus Houvouras is getting a sense of deja vu from Jurassic World… 1999 was a great year for blockbusters. Everyone was talking about game changing cinema like The Matrix and The Blair Witch Project. The Sixth Sense was a monster hit. It was almost enough to make you forget about just how terrible The Phantom […]
The Week in Spandex – Daredevil, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Deadpool, X-Men: Apocalypse, The Fantastic Four, Suicide Squad, Aquaman, The Flash, The Incredibles 2 and more
In this edition of The Week in Spandex, we look at Daredevil, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Avengers: Infinity War, Captain America: Civil War, Ant-Man, Black Panther, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Spider-Man, Deadpool, X-Men: Apocalypse, The Fantastic Four, Suicide Squad, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Aquaman, The Flash, Arrow, Gotham, Supergirl, Batman vs. Robin, Justice League: […]
Jared Leto shares his Joker look from Suicide Squad
Jared Leto has given us our closest look yet to his final appearance as The Joker in Suicide Squad, snapchatting an image of himself with dyed green hair and red lips. No white face makeup yet, but with production on the DC ensemble now underway, surely we won’t have to wait much longer before we […]
David Ayer teases Jared Leto’s Joker from Suicide Squad
After posting the first cast photo earlier in the week, Suicide Squad director David Ayer has shared another photo with his Twitter followers by debuting the first green-haired look at Jared Leto, who was absent from the original cast pic. Many Batman and Joker fans will guess instantly what the inspiration for the photo is, […]
Jamie Bell on portraying The Thing in The Fantastic Four
This past week 20th Century Fox gave us our first proper look at Ben Grimm’s The Thing with the release of two new images from The Fantastic Four [see here and here], and now actor Jamie Bell has shared some comments on bringing the character to life in the Josh Trank-directed reboot. “Obviously I’m not […]
Live and Let Die’s Yaphet Kotto says James Bond “cannot be black”
Last month former 007 Roger Moore caused some controversy when he was quoted as saying that James Bond should be “English-English” when asked for his thoughts on Idris Elba potentially playing the superspy. Although Moore subsequently suggested his quotes had been “lost in translation”, Yaphet Kotto – who played the villain Dr. Kananga / Mr. […]
