An American Pickle, 2020.Directed by Brandon Trost. Starring Seth Rogen, Sarah Snook, Maya Erskine, and Jorma Taccone.SYNOPSIS:An immigrant worker at a pickle factory is accidentally preserved for 100 years and wakes up in modern day Brooklyn.For those that thought one Seth Rogen was not enough, An American Pickle goes a step beyond providing two central […]
Fantasia Fest horror-fantasy Kriya gets a trailer and poster
Ahead of its poremiere in competition at Fantasia International Film Festival 2020, a poster and trailer have been released for Kriya, the new fantasy horror from writer/director Sidharth Srinivasan (Soul of Sand). Check them out here, along with the officialDJ Neel encounters the ravishing Sitara while working a club set one night and is transfixed […]
Terminator Genisys screenwriter talks abandoned sequel plans
Before Paramount Pictures and Skydance Entertainment attempted to reboot the Terminator franchise into a new trilogy with last year’s Terminator: Dark Fate, Paramount and Skydance also attempted to reboot the Terminator franchise into a new trilogy with 2015’s Terminator Genisys.Mauled by critics, Genisys grossed $440 million worldwide, thanks in no small part to its strong […]
Movie Review – Waiting for the Barbarians (2020)
Waiting for the Barbarians, 2020.Directed by Ciro Guerra. Starring Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson, Gana Bayarsaikhan, Greta Scacchi, David Dencik, Sam Reid, Harry Melling, and Bill Milner.SYNOPSIS:A Magistrate working in a distant outpost begins to question his loyalty to the empire.J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians is already a novel intentionally vague on basic […]
Brie Larson auditioned for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Earlier this year Oscar-winner Brie Larson revealed that she’d previously auditioned for a Star Wars movie, and now during an appearance on screenwriter Gary Whitta’s Animal Talking, the actress has revealed that it was the 2016 Anthology spinoff Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.“You wrote Rogue One right?” Larson said to Whitta. “I auditioned for […]
Movie Review – Inmate #1: The Rise of Danny Trejo
Inmate #1: The Rise of Danny Trejo, 2019.Directed by Brett Harvey. Featuring Danny Trejo, Robert Rodriguez, Cheech Marin, and Donal LogueSYNOPSIS:A deep dive into the back story and personal life of one of Hollywood’s most recognizable character actors.Almost everyone knows Danny Trejo. If it’s from his family films like Spy Kids or the exploitation throwbacks […]
Celeste M Cooper stars in trailer for thriller Range Runners
A poster and trailer have arrived online, via Bloody Disgusting, for director Philip S. Plowden’s upcoming thriller Range Runners which stars Celeste M Cooper as a woman who is robbed on an isolated hiking trail that decides to fight and take back what was stolen from her; take a look here…A woman thru-hiking an isolated […]
Movie Review – La Llorona (2019)
La Llorona, 2019.Written and directed by Jayro Bustamante. Starring María Mercedes Coroy, Sabrina De La Hoz, Julio Diaz, and Margarita Kenéfic.SYNOPSIS:An aging paranoid dictator, protected by an witchcrafting wife, faces death and the uprising of his people in Guatemala.Atypical of Hollywood’s tendency to soullessly remake successful foreign-language horror hits, in the case of Hispanic-American folkloric […]
Amy Adams to star in Nightbitch
Deadline is reporting that Annapurna Pictures has secured the rights to Nightbitch, the upcoming debut novel from author Rachel Yoder, and has set Amy Adams to star in a feature film adaptation.Described as a darkly comedic expose on the absurd and feral truths of motherhood, Nightbitch will see Adams playing a former artist who is […]
How X-Men: Apocalypse disappointment changed The New Mutants
Back when it was first announced that Josh Boone was working on The New Mutants, reports suggested that both James McAvoy (Professor Xavier) and Alexandra Shipp (Storm) were set to feature alongside the crop of youngsters in the X-Men spinoff.Boone has confirmed recently that the long-delayed movie doesn’t feature any X-Men cameos, but it seems […]
