Born to Be Blue, 2015. Directed by Robert Budreau. Starring Ethan Hawke, Carmen Ejogo, Callum Keith Rennie and Stephen McHattie. SYNOPSIS: The career of jazz musician Chet Baker (Ethan Hawke) looks to be over. He’s addicted to cocaine and a savage beating makes playing the trumpet almost impossible. But he’s determined to get back to the top. […]
DVD Review – River (2015)
River, 2015. Directed by Jamie M. Dagg. Starring Rossif Sutherland, Sara Botsford, Ted Atherton and Aidan Gillett. SYNOPSIS: Working for an NGO in Laos, volunteer doctor John (Rossif Sutherland) is devastated when a patient dies on the operating table. Ordered to take some leave, he decides to explore the country and heads south. When […]
Movie Review – Men & Chicken (2015)
Men & Chicken, 2015. Directed by Anders Thomas Jensen. Starring Mads Mikkelsen, David Dencik, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Soren Malling and Nicolas Bro. SYNOPSIS: Brothers Gabriel (David Dencik) and Elias (Mads Mikkelsen) discover the man who brought them up wasn’t their biological father, nor did they share the same mother. They track down their real father in […]
George Lucas has changed the Han and Greedo scene from Star Wars… again
With the surprise arrival of the very first 4K versions of the Star Wars saga on Disney+ this week, it has been revealed that another change has been made to the infamous Han Solo and Greedo scene from 1977’s Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. Now, before you get too excited, Han still […]
Video Review – Charlie’s Angels
Charlie’s Angels, 2019. Directed by Elizabeth Banks. Starring Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott, Ella Balinska, Elizabeth Banks, and Patrick Stewart. In this video review, EJ dives into the latest installment in the long-running Charlie’s Angels franchise. He talks about Elizabeth Banks as the director, and which of the new Angels steal the show. Watch the review here, […]
Blu-ray Review – The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
The Manchurian Candidate, 1962. Directed by John Frankenheimer. Starring Laurence Harvey, Frank Sinatra, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, Henry Silver and James Gregory. SYNOPSIS: A former Korean War POW is brainwashed by Communists into becoming a political assassin. But another former prisoner may know how to save him. Exploring the extremes of cold war paranoia in a […]
X-Men’s Shawn Ashmore would love to crossover with Fantastic Four
While it seems the chances of the two series crossing over are slim, there are those within the films that would like to see X-Men and The Fantastic Four cross paths at some point down the road. One man in particular is Shawn Ashmore, who played Bobby Drake aka Iceman in X-Men 2, X-Men: The […]
Margot Robbie says she is signed to play Harley Quinn for “10 years”
Since the cast was announced for David Ayer’s Suicide Squad, it was presumed by everyone (based on the current movie business landscape) that Margot Robbie would be signed to a multi-picture deal to play Harley Quinn. “Yeah, that’s daunting”, she said to AZ Central about playing the same role for the foresable future. “You don’t […]
Will Doctor Strange be American or British?
With Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ant-Man and Captain America: Civil War hitting cinemas before it (not to mention X-Men: Apocalypse, Fantastic Four, Gambit and Deadpool), we’re still a way off from seeing what Marvel have up their sleeves with Scott Derrickson’s Doctor Strange. At the Oscars over the weekend, Best Actor in a Leading Role […]
30 Things We Learned About the Justice League Movie
Tai Freligh with 30 things we learned about the Justice League movie… News about Zack Snyder’s follow up to Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice had been few and far between in terms of photos, logos, plot descriptions, etc. Then late last week the news leaked that several reporters were heading to London to do […]
