It’s been a successful reunion for Will Smith’s Mike Lowrey and Martin Lawrence’s Marcus Burnett, with Sony’s buddy cop action comedy threequel Bad Boys For Life grossing almost $100 million around the globe in its opening weekend.Domestically, Bad Boys For Life grossed $59 million over the three-day weekend, and is on course for an estimated […]
Oscar Isaac to star in Ex Machina adaptation The Great Machine
Having starred in Alex Garland’s 2014 sci-fi Ex Machina, Oscar Isaac has now signed on for a role in the upcoming adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan and Tony Harris’ Ex Machina comic book series, which is going by the title The Great Machine.The comic, which has no relation to Garland’s film, follows Mitchell Hundred, a […]
Johnny Marr joins Hans Zimmer on No Time To Die score
Having just signed on to No Time To Die last week as a late replacement for outgoing composer Dan Romer, Hans Zimmer faces a race against the clock to get the score ready for the Bond film’s release this April, and so it seems he’s turned to one of his frequent collaborators for some assistance.As […]
Movie Review – The Sonata (2020)
The Sonata, 2020. Directed by Andrew Desmond. Starring Freya Tingley, Simon Abkarian, James Faulkner, Rutger Hauer, Catherine Schaub-Abkarian, and Matt Barber. SYNOPSIS: A young violinist unravels her long lost father’s past, triggering dark forces that reach beyond her imagination. Music and horror belong forever entangled in a delicate dance that ends in pure unbridled evil. […]
Robert Downey Jr.’s Dolittle bombs at the domestic box office
It seems that Robert Downey Jr. has gone from one extreme to the other, with the actor following up the record-breaking, $2.79 billion-grossing biggest movie of all time Avengers: Endgame with one of the biggest busts of his career in Universal Pictures’ Dolittle.The fantasy adventure film, based upon Hugh Lofting’s The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle […]
We Ride Together, We Die Together: Reviewing Bad Boys, Bad Boys II, and Bad Boys for Life
Shaun Munro reviews the Bad Boys trilogy…Bad Boys for Life has finally landed in cinemas some 25 years after Michael Bay’s original, comparatively “grounded” buddy cop actioner first hit screens and made its wilfully excessive director an overnight household name.What the Bad Boys franchise has always lacked in finesse and class, it’s stridently attempted to compensate […]
There’s just one blockbuster to get excited for in 2020: The year of Tenet
Tom Jolliffe looks ahead to Tenet, and why it stands head and shoulders over every other tentpole release in 2020…With the Disney machine making record money this year even before they’d fired out Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker to a public who seemed to go with a half-hearted, sleepwalking obligation over a fiery passion, […]
Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge animated movie officially announced
Having been rumoured early last year, Warner Bros. Animation has now officially announced the upcoming release of Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge, an animated feature film based upon the iconic video game franchise.Directed by Ethan Spaulding (Batman: Assault on Arkham) from a script by Jeremy Adams (Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans), Scorpion’s Revenge is […]
The Matrix 4 enlists Sense8 actress Erendira Ibarra
Deadline is reporting that Mexican actress Erendira Ibarra has become the latest member of the Sense8 cast to reunite with co-creator Lana Wachowski on the hotly-anticipated sci-fi action sequel The Matrix 4.The Matrix 4 is set to see the return of franchise veterans Keanu Reeves (Neo), Carrie-Anne Moss (Trinity) and Jade Pinkett Smith (Niobe), while […]
Sam Mendes’ 1917 takes top prize at the 2020 PGA Awards
Sam Mendes’ 1917 received a major boost in terms of its Best Picture hopes at the Oscars last night with the Producers Guild of America bestowing its top honour, The Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures, on the World War I epic at the 30th annual PGA Awards.Throughout its history, […]
