Sirens, 2022.Written and directed by Rita Baghdadi.SYNOPSIS:Lilas and Shery, co-founders and guitarists of the Middle East’s first all-female metal band, wrestle with friendship, sexuality, and destruction in their pursuit of becoming thrash metal rock stars.Moroccan-American director Rita Baghdadi’s (My Country No More) new documentary Sirens certainly doesn’t want for fascinating subjects, as Baghdadi trains her […]
The Riddler strikes in first clip from The Batman
With its March release date fast approaching, Warner Bros. has shared a first clip from The Batman which sees The Riddler (Paul Dano) using his latest target, missing District Attorney Gil Colson (Peter Sarsgaard), to gatecrash a funeral with a message for Robert Pattinson’s Dark Knight. Watch it here…Meanwhile, speaking to Movie Maker, director Matt Reeves […]
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness gets new promotional artwork
With additional photography now in the can and director Sam Raimi deep in post-production ahead of the film’s delayed May release (COVID pending), a new banner for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness has surfaced online this week, showcasing Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), Wong (Benedict Wong), and Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) and America Chavez (Xochitl […]
2022 Sundance Film Festival Video Review – 892
EJ Moreno with a Sundance video review of 892…892 breaks your heart with each scene, telling the real-life story of Brian Easley. John Boyega stars in the film and brings his best to what is likely his career-defining role. Honestly, we should start the awards campaign for him now as Boyega is bound to soul […]
2022 Sundance Film Festival Review – Dual
Dual, 2022.Written and directed by Riley Stearns. Starring Karen Gillan, Aaron Paul, and Beulah Koale.SYNOPSIS:A woman opts for a cloning procedure after she receives a terminal diagnosis, but when she recovers her attempts to have her clone decommissioned fail, leading to a court-mandated duel to the death.Riley Stearns follows up his terrifically entertaining The Art […]
Fiery Batgirl set photos featuring Leslie Grace’s Barbara Gordon and Brendan Fraser’s Firefly
Warner Bros. and DC Films’ Batgirl has been shooting in Glasgow this week, with much of the time devoted to an action sequence which sees Leslie Grace’s titular hero coming to the rescue following an explosive arson attack by the film’s villain Firefly, played by Brendan Fraser of The Mummy and Doom Patrol fame.Check out […]
The Asylum’s Dracula: The Original Living Vampire gets a poster and trailer
Sony may have decided to push back the release of its Marvel movie Morbius to April, but The Asylum is pushing full steam ahead with its plans to drop its latest mockbuster knock-off / cash-in Dracula: The Original Living Vampire this month; check out the official poster and trailer for the film, which follows Detective Amelia Van […]
2022 Sundance Film Festival Review – 2nd Chance
2nd Chance, 2022.Written and directed by Ramin Bahrani.SYNOPSIS:A documentary chronicling the life of Richard Davis, the man who invented the concealable bulletproof vest, shooting himself 196 times in the course of his career to prove the effectiveness of his vests.Ramin Bahrani follows up the Oscar-nominated success of The White Tiger with something completely different; a […]
Has the Meta Movie Been Played Out?
Tom Jolliffe looks at metacinema, and whether the well of engaging meta movie ideas has dried up…Metacinema. In more recent times more popularly referred to as meta, it’s a mode of filmmaking in which the audience is made aware they’re watching a piece of fiction. It goes a little deeper of course, as whilst conventional […]
Mission: Impossible 7 and 8 delayed once again to 2023 and 2024
The real impossible mission Tom Cruise faces is the completion of production on Mission: Impossible 7 and Mission: Impossible 8 as Paramount and Skydance have once again delayed the release dates of both films amid the ongoing pandemic.It has been a long road for the back-to-back sequels as they were originally slated for a July 2021 and November […]
