Diego Maradona, 2019. Directed by Asif Kapadia Featuring Diego Armando Maradona SYNOPSIS: Senna and Amy director Asif Kapadia tackles one of football’s most controversial and gifted icons: Diego Maradona. Enfant terrible, pantomime villain, or the best footballer ever to grace the green fields of this planet? It’s not a question that Asif Kapadia’s third icon […]
G.I. Joe spinoff Snake Eyes pushed back seven months
In news that isn’t at all surprising given that it doesn’t appear to be anywhere near to production at present, The Wrap is reporting that Paramount Pictures has decided to push back the release of its G.I. Joe spinoff film Snake Eyes. Originally slated to open on March 27th 2020, the prequel film based around […]
Blu-ray Review – Def-Con 4 (1985)
Def-Con 4, 1985. Directed by Paul Donovan, Digby C. Cook & Tony Randel. Starring Lenore Zann, Maury Chaykin, Kate Lynch, Tim Choate, and Kevin King. SYNOPSIS: During World War III a satellite containing three astronauts crashes to Earth where they become the target of gangs of diseased humans. The 1980s was a creative and productive […]
Blu-ray Review – Escape Room (2019)
Escape Room, 2019. Directed by Adam Robitel. Starring Taylor Russell, Logan Miller, Deborah Ann Woll, Jay Ellis, Tyler Labine, and Kenneth Fok. SYNOPSIS: Six strangers find themselves trapped in a building where they must solve puzzles in able to move onto the next room before the inevitable traps kick in. So in Escape Room we […]
Anthony Mackie to produce and star in action sci-fi Outside the Wire
After appearing in the fifth season of Black Mirror and the upcoming second season of Altered Carbon, Anthony Mackie is set to reunite with Netflix once again, with Deadline reporting that the Marvel star is set to lead the case of the sci-fi action film Outside the Wire. The film takes place in the future […]
Movie Review – Plus One (2019)
Plus One, 2019. Written and Directed by Jeff Chan and Andrew Rhymer. Starring Maya Erskine, Jack Quaid, Ed Begley Jr., and Finn Wittrock. SYNOPSIS: In order to survive a summer of wedding fever, longtime single friends, Ben and Alice, agree to be each other’s plus one at every wedding they’ve been invited to. Alice and […]
The Artist director developing animated Holocaust film
StudioCanal has announced that Oscar-winning filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) is set to direct an animated adaptation of Jean-Claude Grumberg’s La plus precious des marchandises, as well as co-writing the script with Grumberg. Published in France in January to critical acclaim, the synopsis for the book reads: Once upon a time there was a poor […]
X-Men: Dark Phoenix crashes and burns with franchise low opening weekend
It appears that the X-Men franchise is going out with a fizzle rather than a bang, with 20th Century Fox and director Simon Kinberg’s X-Men: Dark Phoenix settling for second place behind animated sequel The Secret Life of Pets 2 with a record-low opening weekend for the superhero series. Dark Phoenix grossed just $33 million […]
Avengers: Endgame almost featured the MCU’s first “f*ck”
While the Marvel Studios policy seems to be to stick firmly in the family arena, it seems that Avengers: Endgame came close to pushing the boundaries of PG-13 by dropping the MCU’s first (unbleeped) use of the word “fuck”. Speaking to Empire Online, screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely discussed how they came up with […]
Gwyneth Paltrow had no idea that she was in Spider-Man: Homecoming
With twenty-two movies and counting in the franchise, it seems it’s a starting to get a little tough for some of the stars of the Marvel Cinematic Universe to keep track of exactly which instalments they’ve appeared in. That’s the case for Gwyneth Paltrow anyway, who – as we can see in the following clip […]