Mid90s, 2018. Directed by Jonah Hill. Starring Sunny Suljic, Na-Kel Smith, Olan Prenatt, Ryder McLaughlin, Gio Galicia, Lucas Hedges, Katherine Waterston and Alexa Demie. SYNOPSIS: A 13-year-old kid desperate for attention finds himself welcomed into a group of skateboarders in 90s LA. “You should look up to me,” says a teenage character during the first […]
Sarasota Film Festival Review – Feral (2018)
Feral, 2018. Directed by Andrew Wonder. Starring Annapurna Sriram, Doug Drucker, Kevin Hoffman, Jonathan Rentler, Annie Henk. SYNOPSIS: A young woman living in the tunnels underneath Manhattan struggles to overcome her past. Desperate to survive, she meets other city dwellers fending for their own lives. An eye-opening study of a side of New York rarely […]
Blu-ray Review – The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire (1971)
The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire, 1971. Directed by Riccardo Freda. Starring Luigi Pistilli, Dagmar Lassander, Anton Diffring, Valentina Cortese. SYNOPSIS: A grizzled detective investigating the murder of a young woman gets romantically involved with the daughter of the victim’s lover as each of the primary suspects is killed off one by one. Coming […]
Legendary Pictures adapting action-horror comic Bitter Root
Legendary Pictures has acquired the feature film rights to David F. Walker, Sanford Greene and Chuck Brown’s hit Image Comics title Bitter Root. Launching last year, Bitter Root takes place in Harlem in 1924 during the height of the Jazz Age and follows “an African-American family of once-great monster hunters is the only line of […]
Exclusive Interview – Captain Marvel actress Sharon Blynn
Tai Freligh interviews Sharon Blynn from Captain Marvel… Sharon Blynn is best known for her key role in Disney’s Captain Marvel, in theaters now. She plays the role of Soren, a Skrull and the wife of Talos, who is played by Ben Mendelsohn. Blynn shared the big screen and showcased her talent alongside award-winning actors […]
Movie Review – Pet Sematary (2019)
Pet Sematary, 2019. Directed by Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer. Starring Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz, Jeté Laurence, Obssa Ahmed, Alyssa Brooke Levine, Sonia Maria Chirila, Hugo Lavoie, Lucas Lavoie, and John Lithgow. SYNOPSIS: Dr. Louis Creed and his wife, Rachel, relocate from Boston to rural Maine with their two young children. The couple soon discover […]
Simon Kinberg says he always envisioned Dark Phoenix as the “culmination” of the X-Men series
With The Walt Disney Company’s takeover of 20th Century Fox now complete, it’s expected that Marvel Studios will soon reboot the X-Men (and Fantastic Four) into the MCU, bringing to an end the near-twenty year series that is Fox’s X-Men franchise. The final instalment (of the main series, at least – assuming The New Mutants […]
Iron Studios’ Avengers: Endgame Ronin Battle Diorama Series statue revealed
Iron Studios has unveiled its Battle Diorama Series 1:10 scale Ronin statue which is based on the new persona for Jeremy Renner’s Clint Barton in the upcoming Marvel sequel Avengers: Endgame. The collectible is available to pre-order now, priced at $89.99 and is expected to be ready for shipping between May and June; take a […]
Bumblebee director discusses his original plans for Megatron appearance
This past December, every Generation One fan’s childhood was brought to life on the big screen by director Travis Knight in the all-too-brief Cybertron battle sequence in Paramount Pictures’ Transformers spinoff Bumblebee. The sequence featured cameo appearances from some of the franchise’s most beloved characters in their classic 80s designs. Unfortunately, the film’s ties to […]
Shazam! buries Pet Sematary with $53 million at the US box office, $158.6 million worldwide
It was another triumphant week at the top of the US box office for Warner Bros. and DC, as Shazam! followed in the blockbusting footsteps of Aquaman, and topped the weekend box office with $55.3 million (or $56.8 million including previews). While these might not seem like the kind of numbers posted by his spandex […]
