Snowden, 2016. Directed by Oliver Stone. Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Zachary Quinto, Melissa Leo, Scott Eastwood, Tom Wilkinson, Joely Richardson, Timothy Olyphant, Ben Schnetzer, Ben Chaplin, Rhys Ifans, Nicolas Cage, and Edward Snowden. SYNOPSIS: The NSA’s illegal surveillance techniques are leaked to the public by one of the agency’s employees, Edward Snowden, in the […]
Zack Snyder announces that Justice League reshoots are underway
When it was revealed earlier this that Zack Snyder’s original cut of Justice League would be coming to HBO Max, it was said that Snyder and company would not be undertaking any additional photography as the filmmaker looked to put the finishing touches to his DC team-up. However, we learned last month that plans had […]
Movie Review – The Impossible (2012)
The Impossible, 2012. Directed by Juan Antonio Bayona. Starring Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor and Tom Holland. SYNOPSIS: During a holiday in Thailand, a family find themselves caught up in one of the worst natural catastrophes of our time. As a cinematic achievement, The Impossible does so many things right it’s very hard to fault it. […]
October Horrors 2020 – Southbound (2015)
Southbound, 2015. Directed by Radio Silence, Roxane Benjamin, David Bruckner and Patrick Horvath. Starring Chad Villella, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Fabianne Therese, Hannah Marks, Nathalie Love, Kate Beahan and Davey Johnson. SYNOPSIS: An anthology tale in which five strangers are each forced to confront nightmarish horrors and their own dark pasts on a lonely desolate highway. Everyone […]
Movie Review – Assassination Nation (2018)
Assassination Nation, 2018. Directed by Sam Levinson. Starring Odessa Young, Hari Nef, Suki Waterhouse, Abra, Colman Domingo, Bill Skarsgård, Joel McHale, Anika Noni Rose, Bella Thorne, Maude Apatow, and Cody Christian. SYNOPSIS: This is a thousand percent a true story about how the quiet, all-American town of Salem absolutely lost its mind. Fuck me up […]
Movie Review – Piercing (2019)
Piercing, 2019 Directed by Nicolas Pesce. Starring Christopher Abbott, Mia Wasikowska, and Laia Costa. SYNOPSIS: Reed is planning the perfect murder. He has everything planned down to the minute, but he can’t prepare for the human tornado that is Jackie. The prostitute Reed is planning on killing is far crazier than he could ever dream to be. […]
No Time to Die Delay costing $1 million a month in interest payments
According to a new report, MGM’s decision to delay No Time to Die will cost the studio $1 million a month in interest. When we think about the abundance of movie delays in the wake of the pandemic, we don’t tend to think about the financial cost. After all, aren’t these films being delayed so […]
Movie Review – TOPOWA! Never Give Up (2020)
TOPOWA! Never Give Up, 2020. Directed by Inigo Gilmore and Philip Sansom. SYNOPSIS: A dozen young musicians from the slums of Uganda are given the opportunity to take their brass band to a major performance in the UK. There’s a lot of talk in the UK right now about the value of the arts, with […]
Movie Review – Eighteam (2014)
Eighteam, 2014. Directed by Juan Rodriguez-Briso. Starring Kalusha Bwalya, Dennis Liwewe, Christopher Katongo, Ciro Ferrara, Mauro Tassotti and Hervé Renard. SYNOPSIS: The against-the-odds story of how Zambia rebuilt its national football team after an air disaster led to the death of almost their entire squad in 1993. Football loves an underdog story. And it’s difficult […]
James Gunn praises David Ayer for his Suicide Squad castings
Warner Bros. and DC Films’ Suicide Squad franchise has been in the headlines often as of late, what with James Gunn now deep in post-production on next year’s The Suicide Squad, and David Ayer frequently commenting about his original cut of the first movie on social media as some fans look to mount a #ReleaseTheAyerCut […]
