Walt Disney Pictures’ unprecedented year at the box office continued this weekend as the Disney Animation sequel Frozen II became the studio’s sixth release of the year to pass the magical $1 billion mark worldwide.Adding $19.2 million domestically and a further $55.7 million from international markets, Frozen II has now amassed $1.033 billion in four […]
Movie Review – Little Women (2019)
Little Women, 2019.Directed by Great Gerwig Starring Saoirse Ronan, Florence Pugh, Emma Watson, Eliza Scanlen, Timothée Chalamet, Laura Dern, Tracy Letts, James Norton, Chris Cooper, Louis Garrel, Bob Odenkirk, and Meryl StreepSYNOPSIS:Four uniquely individual sisters navigate their way through life in post-Civil War America.The question to be asked of any text that has been adapted for […]
Top Gun: Maverick poster released, new trailer incoming on Monday
With a new trailer set to take off tomorrow at 1pm GMT, Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions have unveiled a poster for the hotly-anticipated Tom Gun: Maverick, which sees Tom Cruise reprising his role as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in the sequel to the classic 1986 action film Top Gun.Top Gun: Maverick is set for release […]
James Gunn confirms that Avengers: Endgame hasn’t changed his plans for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
James Gunn is currently busy shooting the DC Extended Universe supervillain team-up The Suicide Squad, but in a break from production the director took part in a recent fan Q&A where he addressed his upcoming return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, confirming that Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame have not impacted his original plans […]
David Benioff and D.B Weiss adapting Cthulhu graphic novel Lovecraft for Warner Bros.
Having finished up their A Song of Ice and Fire adaptation earlier this year with the final season of Game of Thrones (and exited their planned Star Wars trilogy at Lucasfilm), Deadline is reporting that David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have found their next project.According to the site, the duo are set to direct an […]
Rey, Finn and Poe infiltrate a Star Destroyer in clip from Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
As part of a promotional tie-in event with the blockbuster Fortnite video game, a new clip from Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker has been released and sees Rey, Finn and Poe infiltrating a First Order Star Destroyer; check it out here…SEE ALSO: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker trailer and TV spot feature new […]
Christmas films are a bit rubbish – but that’s okay
Tom Beasley examines the naff world of Christmas cinema, and how little that all matters at the most wonderful time of the year…This is a difficult statement for me to make, but I’m just going to come out with it right up top. A lot of Christmas movies are rubbish.It hurts me to say that, […]
Dormammu almost appeared in Avengers: Endgame
As part of their For Your Consideration campaign for the Academy Awards, Disney and Marvel have released the full screenplay for this year’s blockbuster superhero epic Avengers: Endgame, which reveals that the Doctor Strange villain Dormammu almost made a brief cameo appearance in the movie.On page 77 of the script, during the sequence where the […]
Movie Review – A Hidden Life (2019)
A Hidden Life, 2019.Written and Directed by Terrence Malick. Starring August Diehl, Valerie Pachner, Michael Nyqvist, Matthias Schoenaerts, Jürgen Prochnow, Bruno Ganz, Alexander Fehling, Ulrich Matthes, Karl Markovics, Franz Rogowski, Tobias Moretti, Martin Wuttke, Max Mauff, Johan Leysen, Waldemar Kobus, Sophie Rois, Maria Simon, and Nicholas Reinke.SYNOPSIS:The Austrian Blessed Franz Jägerstätter, a conscientious objector, refuses […]
Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite and Greta Gerwig’s Little Women upstage films from legendary veterans Quentin Tarantino and Martin Scorsese with four 2019 CFCA Awards apiece
Last night, my colleagues and friends of the Chicago Film Critics Association got together to announce the lucky winners and, well, they let me down. Adam Sandler lost Best Actor to some other Adam that most definitely will not be seen in any other movies for the rest of the year – an all-around inferior […]
