Tom Jolliffe on why Cynthia Rothrock should be a part of Cobra Kai season 5…Cobra Kai Season 4 is still fresh from the oven on Netflix. Like every season before it, it’s a perfect unison of slightly soapy coming of age angst, brawls, humour, nostalgia and just the right level of fan service. It’s the […]
The Amityville Trope in Horror Cinema
Tom Jolliffe looks at the continual fascination with Amityville in horror cinema…In 1979, Stuart Rosenburg made The Amityville Horror, an adaptation of Jay Anison’s book. Said book was based on the real life case when Ronald Defeo Jr murdered his entirely family at their home in 1974. The book/film takes place a year later with […]
Movie Review – The Batman (2022)
The Batman, 2022.Directed by Matt Reeves. Starring Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Paul Dano, Jeffrey Wright, John Turturro, Peter Sarsgaard, Andy Serkis, Colin Farrell, Barry Keoghan, Alex Ferns, Jayme Lawson, Rupert Penry-Jones, Con O’Neill, Vic Waghorn, Dave Simon, Luke Roberts, Stella Stocker, Oscar Novak, and Archie Barnes.SYNOPSIS:In his second year of fighting crime, Batman uncovers corruption […]
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore gets a new trailer and poster
Warner. Bros has released a new poster and trailer for the next instalment in the Wizarding World franchise, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, which sees Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) enlisting the help of Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) and an intrepid team of witches and wizards to put to stop to the dark wizard Gellert […]
Sink your teeth into the final trailer for Sony’s Morbius
It’s been pushed back so many times that it kind of feels like we’ve already seen and forgotten about the movie many moons ago, but with Sony’s long-delayed Morbius movie pushing on towards its April release date, the studio has released the final — please god, let it be the final — trailer for the […]
CODA leads the winners of the 2022 SAG Awards
With the Golden Globes shunned this year, Hollywood came out in force last night for the 28th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, which celebrated the best in film and television performances from the past twelve months across fifteen categories.Big winners on the night included CODA, which received the coveted Outstanding Performance by a Cast in […]
Michael Keaton teases his Batman return with Batgirl set photo
Thirty years after last portraying the character in Batman Returns, Michael Keaton’s Dark Knight will be back on the big screen this year as he joins the DC Extended Universe with an appearance in the multiverse-spanning Ezra Miller-led The Flash movie.This won’t be a “one-and-done” outing either, as Keaton is currently back under the cape […]
Indiana Jones 5 has wrapped filming
Producer Frank Marshall has taken to Twitter to announce that filming has finally wrapped on the long-delayed fifth instalment of the Indiana Jones series – which will reportedly be Harrison Ford’s final time as the beloved adventurer. That’s a wrap!!! #indianajones pic.twitter.com/pQRTw0oOXx — Frank Marshall (@LeDoctor) February 27, 2022Development on Indiana Jones 5 hasn’t been the smoothest […]
Movie Review – Escape from Pretoria (2020)
Escape from Pretoria, 2020Directed by Francis Annan. Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Ian Hart, Daniel Webber, Nathan Page, Mark Leonard Winter, and Adam Ovadia.SYNOPSIS:Based on the real-life prison break of two political captives, Escape from Pretoria is a race-against-time thriller set in the tumultuous apartheid days of South Africa.Escape from Pretoria follows two political activists sentenced to […]
David Dastmalchian joins Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer
Director Christopher Nolan is continuing to expand the cast for his upcoming biopic Oppenheimer as The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that David Dastmalchian (The Suicide Squad, Dune) is also set to star in the film.Oppenheimer will also be a reunion for Nolan and Dastmalchian as the actor had previously appeared in a short role as Thomas Schiff, one […]
