Shelby Oaks, the upcoming found-footage feature film which is set to be written and directed by YouTube film critic/filmmaker Chris Stuckmann, has become the most-funded horror film project on Kickstarter just a few weeks into its campaign. The film, which is based on a recent Internet mystery about a group of missing paranormal investigators, has raised $710,000 from […]
Doctor Strange director Scott Derrickson to helm The Gorge for Skydance
Director Scott Derrickson, who is set to make his highly-anticipated directorial return to horror with the upcoming feature film The Black Phone, has now been tapped to helm Skydance’s latest film The Gorge. Although the logline is currently being kept under wraps, Deadline is reporting that the film is a high-action, genre-bending love story. The Gorge is based […]
Movie Review – Topside (2022)
Topside, 2022. Written and Directed by Logan George and Celine Held. Starring Celine Held, Zhalia Farmer, Fatlip, Jared Abrahamson, Gino Vento, and Tonye Patano. SYNOPSIS: Deep in the underbelly of New York City, a five-year-old girl and her mother live among a community that has claimed the abandoned subway tunnels as their home. There’s an […]
None More Nineties: Why Speed is the ultimate 90s action film
Robb Sheppard on the ultimate 90s action movie, Speed… The 1990s witnessed a changing of the guard when it came to action movies. Speed crashed into 1994 and went from being “that bus movie” to one of the decade’s finest straight-up action films. Alongside the gloriously OTT Con Air, the far-fetched Face/Off, and Michael Bay’s […]
Movie Review – Gravity (2013)
Gravity, 2013. Directed by Alfonso Cuarón. Starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney. SYNOPSIS: A medical engineer and an astronaut work together to survive after an accident leaves them adrift in space. When the trailer for Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity hit the Internet earlier this year, it sparked a huge amount of interest from movie goers […]
Movie Review – Our Brand is Crisis (2015)
Our Brand is Crisis, 2015. Directed by David Gordon Green. Starring Sandra Bullock, Billy Bob Thornton, Anthony Mackie, Joaquim de Almeida, Ann Dowd, Scoot McNairy, Zoe Kazan, and Reynaldo Pacheco. SYNOPSIS: An American woman, well-versed in political campaigns, is sent to the war-torn lands of South America to help install a new leader but is […]
Movie Review – Ocean’s 8 (2018)
Ocean’s 8, 2018. Directed by Gary Ross. Starring Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Mindy Kaling, Sarah Paulson, Awkwafina, Richard Armitage, James Corden, Rihanna, Helena Bonham Carter, and Dakota Fanning. SYNOPSIS: Debbie Ocean gathers an all-female crew to attempt an impossible heist at New York City’s yearly Met Gala. With the announcement of an all […]
Brad Pitt’s Bullet Train delayed to fill release date vacated by Black Adam
Over the last couple of years the movie release calendar has been a little like looking up at the arrivals and departures board of a busy inner-city train station, so it perhaps fitting that David Leitch’s Bullet Train is going to have to wait just outside the platform for a couple of weeks in order […]
Movie Review – Summertime (2015)
Summertime, 2015. Directed by Catherine Corsini. Starring Cecile de France, Izia Higelin, Noemie Lvovsky, Benjamin Bellecour and Kevin Azais. SYNOPSIS: Facing an uncertain future working on the family farm, Delphine (Izia Higelin) moves to Paris, where she falls in with a group of radical feminists. She’s attracted to one of its leaders, the older Carole […]
Movie Review – Honeytrap (2014)
Honeytrap, 2014. Directed by Rebecca Johnson. Starring Jessica Sula, Lucien Laviscount, Ntonga Mwanza, and Naomi Ryan. SYNOPSIS: Layla, a naive teenager from Trindad, moves to Brixton, London to live with her emotionally distant mother. Layla gets sucked into local gang activity trying to impress those around her. Honeytrap is an engaging film based on a […]
