Anna and the Apocalypse, 2018.Directed by John McPhail. Starring Ella Hunt, Malcolm Cumming, Ben Wiggins, Sarah Swire, Christopher Leveaux, Marli Siu, Mark Benton, and Paul Kaye.SYNOPSIS:A zombie apocalypse threatens the sleepy town of Little Haven – at Christmas – forcing Anna and her friends to fight, slash and sing their way to survival, facing the […]
Movie Review – Miss Bala (2019)
Miss Bala, 2019.Directed by Catherine Hardwicke. Starring Gina Rodriguez, Ismael Cruz Córdova, Anthony Mackie, Matt Lauria, Cristina Rodlo, Damián Alcázar, José Sefami, Aislinn Derbez, and Ricardo Abarca.SYNOPSIS:Gloria finds a power she never knew she had when she is drawn into a dangerous world of cross-border crime. Surviving will require all of her cunning, inventiveness, and […]
Tom Hanks’ News of the World gets new trailer from Netflix
Netflix has released a trailer for international release of News of the World. The drama, based on Paulette Jiles’ best-selling novel, sees director Paul Greengrass reunite with his Captain Phillips star Tom Hanks who leads the cast as Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, a non-fiction storyteller who crosses paths with a young girl (Helena Zengel) and agrees […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Life in a Day 2020
Life in a Day 2020, 2021.Directed by Kevin Macdonald.SYNOPSIS:Ten years after 2011’s Life in a Day, award-winning director Kevin Macdonald returns to present the story of another day on Earth: July 25, 2020.Of all the movies about the COVID-19 pandemic released as of late – from exploitative speculative thrillers to a rom-com heist film starring Anne […]
Chaos Walking character posters bring the noise
Ahead of its release next month, a batch of character posters have been released for Doug Liman’s long-delayed dystopian sci-fi Chaos Walking, featuring stars Tom Holland, Daisy Ridley, Mads Mikkelsen, Cynthio Erivo, Nick Jonas, and David Oyelowo; take a look here…In the not too distant future, Todd Hewitt (Tom Holland) discovers Viola (Daisy Ridley), a […]
Tom Holland shares Spider-Man 3 set photo with his brother Harry, tells fans to “buckle up”
It’s a family affair on the set of Spider-Man 3, with Tom Holland taking to Instagram to share a behind-the-scenes photo of himself in full costume as the web-slinger alongside his younger brother Harry, as well as teasing that fans should “buckle up” for what “was easily one of the highlights of my career”…SEE ALSO: […]
Ryan Coogler pens 5-year Disney deal that includes a Wakanda Marvel Series for Disney+
The ever-expanding MCU has just got a little bit bigger with the news that Black Panther director Ryan Coogler has signed an exclusive television deal with Disney that includes a Wakanda based TV series for Disney+.Deadline report that The Walt Disney Company have made a five-year overall exclusive television deal with Coogler’s Proximity Media, which […]
Movie Review – Bliss (2021)
Bliss, 2021.Written and Directed by Mike Cahill. Starring Salma Hayek, Owen Wilson. Madeline Zima, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Joshua Leonard, Ronny Chieng, Mercy Malick, Nesta Cooper, Steve Zissis, and Bill Nye.SYNOPSIS:A mind-bending love story following Greg who, after recently being divorced and then fired, meets the mysterious Isabel, a woman living on the streets and convinced […]
The Moments Which Made You Love Cinema
Tom Jolliffe on those moments which made you love cinema…It’s different for everyone and maybe for some it never happens. Not everyone (shock horror!) is into film. For those film buffs, nerds, geeks, or even merely casual enjoyers of cinematic delights, there are always defining moments. Maybe it’s a moment within a film. Maybe it’s […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Misha and the Wolves
Misha and the Wolves, 2021.Directed by Sam Hobkinson.SYNOPSIS:A woman’s Holocaust memoir takes the world by storm, but a fallout with her publisher-turned-detective reveals her story as an audacious deception created to hide a darker truth.Sam Hobkinson’s fascinating documentary Misha and the Wolves turns the notion of the “stranger-than-fiction” story on its head, focusing on the fraudulent particulars […]
