According to J.J. Abrams, Star Wars: The Last Jedi in no way stopped any of his plans for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Star Wars: The Last Jedi certainly featured plenty of shocking moments, with director Rian Johnson making a handful of decisions that Episode VII director J.J. Abrams apparently wouldn’t have thought of. […]
Elizabeth Banks teams with Universal for The Invisible Woman
Universal Pictures’ revamped strategy for its library of Universal Monsters characters continues to take shape, with Variety reporting that Elizabeth Banks has signed on to direct and star in The Invisible Woman. The project is said to be based upon an original pitch by Banks, who is coming off the box office disappointment of the […]
Dexter Fletcher to direct Dracula movie Renfield for Universal
With Blumhouse’s The Invisible Man set to kick off a new approach to its classic Universal Monsters line with its release in 2020, Variety is reporting that Universal had now added another project to its ‘Monster’ slate in Renfield. Based upon the supporting character from Bram Stoker’s classic Dracula novel, the film will be told […]
Big screen remake of The Fugitive in the works from Warner Bros.
It seems that the Quibi short-form series starring Kiefer Sutherland and Boyd Holbrook isn’t the only remake of The Fugitive on the horizon, as Deadline has revealed that Warner Bros. has tapped Albert Hughes (The Book of Eli) to direct a new big screen version of the property. According to the site, Warner Bros. intends […]
Movie Review – Greta (2019)
Greta, 2019. Directed by Neil Jordan. Starring Chloë Grace Moretz, Isabelle Huppert, Maika Monroe, Zawe Ashton, Colm Feore, and Stephen Rea. SYNOPSIS: A young woman returns an elderly widow’s lost purse, leading to an unlikely relationship between the two — until the young woman discovers her elder might not be all that she seems. There are […]
Lupita Nyong’o was “geeking out” and twerking over the Black Panther trailer
Whenever a new trailer for an anticipated comic book movie hits, it can be very exciting for fans. However, what about the people in the movie? They can be fans too, after all. Take Black Panther actress Lupita Nyong’o (Nakia), who recently chatted with Access Hollywood about seeing the trailer for the first time: “I am geeking out. […]
Movie Review – Mapplethorpe (2019)
Mapplethorpe, 2019. Directed by Ondi Timoner. Starring Matt Smith, Marianne Rendón, John Benjamin Hickey, Brandon Sklenar, McKinley Belcher III, Mark Moses, and Hari Nef. SYNOPSIS: A look at the life of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe from his rise to fame in the 1970s to his untimely death in 1989. Not to drag Bohemian Rhapsody through the mud […]
Movie Review – How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019)
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, 2019. Written and Directed by Dean DeBlois. Featuring the voice talents of Jay Baruchel, Craig Ferguson, Gerard Butler. America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Kristen Wiig, Justin Rupple, Cate Blanchett, Kit Harington, F. Murray Abraham, Robin Atkin Downes, Gideon Emery, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, and David Tennant. SYNOPSIS: When […]
The Strangers 2 director Johannes Roberts on the horror classics that have inspired the upcoming sequel
The Strangers was a surprisingly good horror movie back in 2008. The film preyed on our instinctual fear of isolation, home invasion, and evil without any motive. A sequel was greenlit ages ago, and was only recently announced to be back in production; the movie was previously thought to be cancelled due to financial problems, […]
Black Panther’s Danai Gurira confirmed for Avengers: Infinity War
It looks like we have yet another MCU character confirmed for Avengers: Infinity War. According to Deadline, actress Danai Gurira (The Walking Dead) is set to be a part of the already enormous cast for Avengers: Infinity War and will reprise her role as Okoye from 2018’s Black Panther. Gurira is not the first member of […]
