While Paramount Pictures is yet to officially unveil its new-look Sonic the Hedgehog – redesigned after a savage backlash following the release of a first trailer for the live-action/CG-animated movie – we have seen a couple of leaked shots [see here and here], and now a theater standee has been spotted out in the wild […]
Disney+ to launch in the UK in March 2020
The Walt Disney Company enters the streaming arena this coming week with the launch of Disney+, a new subscription service which not only contains a wealth of movie and TV library titles from the Mouse House’s various divisions, but will also serve as the home for original content such as The Mandalorian, a slate of […]
First images from CG-animated Scooby-Doo movie Scoob!
With the trailer set to arrive this coming Monday, Warner Bros. has released four first-look images and a banner for the upcoming CG-animated comedy adventure Scoob! featuring Scooby-Doo and his Mystery Inc. buddies Shaggy, Velma, Fred and Daphne; take a look here… Scoob! will see the mystery-solving gang joining forces with other characters from the […]
Nicolas Cage stars in trailer for southern gothic thriller Grand Isle
If yesterday’s trailer for the H.P. Lovecraft adaptation Color Out of Space wasn’t enough to satisfy your Nic Cage thirst for the week then you’re in luck, as Screen Media has unveiled a trailer for director Stephen S. Campanelli’s southern gothic thriller Grand Isle, which sees Cage starring alongside Kelsey Grammer, Luke Benward, and KaDee […]
Movie Review – Primal (2019)
Primal, 2019. Directed by Nick Powell. Starring Nicolas Cage, Famke Janssen, Kevin Durand, LaMonica Garrett, and Michael Imperioli. SYNOPSIS: A big-game hunter for zoos has booked passage on a Greek shipping freighter with a fresh haul of exotic and deadly animals from the Amazon, including a rare white Jaguar – along with a political assassin […]
Jordan Peele comments on Marvel debate, says he wants more original movies
Jordan Peele is the latest director to jump into the Marvel debate, stemming from Martin Scorsese’s original criticisms of the genre. Since Martin Scorsese expressed his thoughts about Marvel movies not being cinema, a number of directors, from Francis Ford Coppola to James Gunn have had their say on the merits – or lack thereof […]
Movie Review – Hereditary (2018)
Hereditary, 2018. Written and Directed by Ari Aster. Starring Toni Collette, Gabriel Byrne, Ann Dowd, Milly Shapiro, and Alex Wolff. SYNOPSIS: When Ellen, the matriarch of the Graham family, passes away, her daughter’s family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry. The more they discover, the more they find themselves trying […]
Movie Review – Upgrade (2018)
Upgrade, 2018. Written and Directed by Leigh Whannell. Starring Logan Marshall-Green, Simon Maiden, Richard Cawthorne, Betty Gabriel, Michael M. Foster, Harrison Gilbertson, and Benedict Hardie. SYNOPSIS: Set in the near-future, technology controls nearly all aspects of life. But when Grey, a self-identified technophobe, has his world turned upside down, his only hope for revenge is […]
Parent complains about Slave Leia Star Wars toy – asks for Target to remove from sale
It’s perhaps one of the characters most iconic of looks, but a parent in Phildelphia is asking for Hasbro’s Star Wars Black Series figure of Princess Leia in Return of the Jedi to be removed from sale – because it offends him. “That’s pretty inappropriate,” Fred Hill told FOX News. “I got two daughters, I don’t […]
Chicago Critics Film Festival 2018 Review – First Reformed
First Reformed, 2018. Written and Directed by Paul Schrader. Starring Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried, Cedric the Entertainer, Philip Ettinger, Michael Gaston, Victoria Hill, and Van Hansis. SYNOPSIS: A former military chaplain is wracked by grief over the death of his son. Mary is a member of his church whose husband, a radical environmentalist, commits suicide, […]
