It’s already been pushed back three times – the first two due to director shake-ups, and the third because of the global health crisis – and if a report from The Daily Mail is to be believed, James Bond fans may face an even longer wait to see 007 back in action in No Time […]
Movie Review – Can You Keep a Secret? (2019)
Can You Keep a Secret?, 2019. Directed by Elise Duran. Starring Alexandra Daddario, Tyler Hoechlin, Laverne Cox, Sunita Mani, Kimiko Glenn, David Ebert and Kate Easton. SYNOPSIS: Thinking they’re about to crash, Emma spills her secrets to a stranger on a plane. At least, she thought he was a stranger… until she later meets Jack, […]
Techno-Thrillers in Film: From The Satan Bug to The Invisible Man
Hasitha Fernando on techno-thrillers in film… If you’ve read enough books and watched your fair share of films, chances are you’ve heard the term ‘techno-thriller’ being tossed around from time to time. For the uninitiated this particular genre is a hybridization of many others, drawing inspiration from awe inspiring sci-fi dramas to white-knuckling espionage thrillers. […]
Central Intelligence director to helm Spy vs. Spy movie
According to a report from Collider, Central Intelligence director Rawson Marshall Thurber has signed on to direct a live-action adaptation of the Mad Magazine comic strip Spy vs. Spy for Warner Bros. and Ron Howard and Brian Glazer’s Imagine Entertainment. Launching back in 1961 and created by Cuban cartoonist Antonio Prohias as a parody of […]
Movie Review – The Jack In The Box (2020)
The Jack In The Box, 2020. Directed by Lawrence Fowler. Starring Ethan Taylor, Robert Nairne, Lucy-Jane Quinlan, Philip Ridout, and Darrie Gardner. SYNOPSIS: When a vintage Jack-in-the-box is un-earthed and opened, it’s new owners soon have reason to believe the creepy clown doll within has a life of it’s own. Lawrence Fowler’s The Jack In […]
The Iron Giant – 20th Anniversary Edition concept achieves 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas
Designer BrettCuv’s The Iron Giant – 20th Anniversary Edition concept has progressed onto the First 2020 Review Stage over at LEGO Ideas, having achieved the required 10,000 supporters on the official website to put it in with a chance of being produced as an official LEGO set. The set is of course based upon the […]
James Wan teams with John Wick writer for time-travel thriller Hunting Season
The Conjuring and Aquaman director James Wan is teaming with John Wick screenwriter Derek Kolstad for the sci-fi feature Hunting Season, based upon a 1951 short story by writer Frank M. Robinson. The film is described as “in the vein of 1984, Fahrenheit 451 and The Running Man” and follows “a law officer from the […]
Movie Review – Reborn (2018)
Reborn, 2018. Directed by Julian Richards. Starring Kayleigh Gilbert, Barbara Crampton, Michael Paré, Rae Dawn Chong, Chaz Bono, Alexa Maris, Monte Markham and Peter Bogdanovich. SYNOPSIS: A fading actress meets a teenager with strange, supernatural powers who claims to be her daughter – the daughter who was stillborn 16 years earlier. Reborn starts with Sonny […]
I Am Not Okay With This co-creator to adapt Stephen King’s The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Last year it was announced that Roy Lee’s Vertigo Entertainment and Chris Romero’s (former wife of the late George A. Romero) Sanibel Films were in development on a feature film adaptation of the 1999 Stephen King book The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, and now comes word that a screenwriter has boarded the project. As […]
Gina Rodriguez to star in sci-fi stoner comedy The Aliens Are Stealing Our Weed
Jane the Virgin star Gina Rodriguez has signed on to produce and star in The Aliens Are Stealing Our Weed, a sci-fi stoner comedy which has been scripted by Ryan Firpo, co-writer on Marvel Studios’ upcoming superhero blockbuster Eternals. As revealed by Variety, the film will follow “Candice (Rodriguez) and Izzy, two hapless pot growers […]
