Warner Bros. and DC Films Justice League certainly came in for its fair share of criticism – not least with regards to the awful CGI work on Superman’s face, as the visual effects team tried to hide Henry Cavill’s Mission: Impossible – Fallout moustache after Paramount refused to allow the actor to shave for reshoots […]
Tobe Hooper almost directed a Spider-Man horror movie for Cannon Films in the 80s
Spider-Man is set to swing back into theatres this coming week with the release of Marvel and Sony’s Spider-Man: Far From Home marking the web-slinger’s seventh live-action solo movie since director Sam Raimi first brought him to the big screen in 2002 after almost two decades of development hell.Having briefly been optioned by Roger Corman’s New […]
The Banana Splits return in trailer for R-rated horror movie
Syfy and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment have released the first trailer for The Banana Splits Movie, the upcoming feature which adds a horror spin on the classic children’s 60’s TV show. Directed by Danishka Esterhazy, the film stars Dani Kind (Wyonna Earp), Finlay Wojtak-Hissong (The Kindness Of Strangers), Steve Lund (Bitten) and Sara Canning (War […]
Natalie Dormer defends “gratuitous nudity” of In Darkness
Game of Thrones star Natalie Dormer’s film In Darkness has been coming in for some criticism due to its “gratuitous nudity”, in particular a scene where the religious ritual washing of a corpse is intercut with shots of Dormer’s character showering.However, speaking to The Guardian, Dormer – who also scripted the movie – has defended […]
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker images featuring Luke, Lando, Rey, Kylo Ren, the Knights of Ren and more
As it did with Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Vanity Fair has posted an in-depth article on December’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, which includes a host of images from celebrated photographer Annie Liebovitz.Among the images are new shots of Rey (Daisy Ridley) and Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) […]
The Mermaid: Lake of the Dead gets UK poster and trailer
4Digital Media has announced that it is bringing Svyatoslav Podgaevskiy’s (Queen of Spades: The Dark Rite, The Bride) new horror film The Mermaid: Lake of the Dead to the UK this July; check out the poster, trailer and synopsis here…Roma’s life is changed forever by a meeting, and a kiss, with a strange young woman […]
Do Kaiju movies need human characters?
Anghus Houvouras on kaiju movies and whether they need human characters…I love a good monster movie. They can, on occasion, still produce some of the childhood joy of watching massive creatures stomping on skyscrapers and battling one another to determine hierarchical dominance. All Kaiju movies deal with the same problem: the movie has to be […]
Exclusive clip from LGBTQ vampire film Bit starring Nicole Maines
Following on from its premiere at the Inside Out LGBT Film Festival, we’ve got an exclusive clip from the ” supernatural, super feminist, and super queer” vampire film Bit, which sees trans activist/actress Nicole Maines (Supergirl) starring alongside the likes of M.C. Gainey, Diana Hopper and James Paxton. Check out the clip below along with […]
Jumanji 3 receives official title and first trailer
Sony Pictures has released the first trailer for the sequel to 2017’s Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, confirming the recent leak that the film is going by the title Jumanji: The Next Level. You can check out the trailer here… The official synopsis for the film states, ‘In Jumanji: The Next Level, the gang is back but […]
Exclusive poster and UK trailer for Tell It to the Bees starring Anna Paquin and Holliday Grainger
Ahead of the film’s UK release next month, we’ve got an exclusive poster for director Annabel Jankel’s sensuous romance Tell It to the Bees starring Anna Paquin and Holliday Grainger. Check it out here, along with the UK trailer…Dr Jean Markham (Anna Paquin) returns to the town she left as a teenager to take over […]
