25 years after the release of Beverly Hills Cop III, Eddie Murphy has announced the next film he will be working on is Beverly Hills Cop 4. In an interview with Collider during press for Dolemite Is My Name, Murphy revealed his future film plans which includes the next instalment in the Beverly Hills Cop franchise after his work […]
André Øvredal to direct Dracula-inspired The Last Voyage of the Demeter
André Øvredal (Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark) is set for his next horror film, this time revolving around the infamous vampire Dracula. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Øvredal will direct The Last Voyage of the Demeter, a seafaring horror that has been in development hell for nearly two decades, as it finds its new […]
Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren star in new trailer for The Good Liar
Ahead of its release next month, a new trailer has arrived online for Bill Condon’s upcoming adaptation of Nicholas Searle’s thriller novel The Good Liar which stars Ian McKellen as a con artist who finds he’s met his match when he attempts to swindle a well-to-do widow (Helen Mirren); watch it here… Career con artist […]
October Horrors 2019 Day 2 – Blood and Black Lace (1964)
Blood and Black Lace, 1964. Directed by Mario Bava. Starring Eva Bartok, Cameron Mitchell, Thomas Reiner, Arianna Gorini and Mary Marden. SYNOPSIS: After a model is brutally murdered by a masked killer, a fashion house becomes the centre of a mystery as police and the house’s staff try to figure out who among them lurks […]
Joker director Todd Phillips says woke culture is why comedies don’t work any more
Todd Phillips, the director of Joker, says “woke” culture and being afraid to offend people is why comedies don’t work anymore. The director of dark, comic-inspired drama Joker, Todd Phillips, is known for comedies like Road Trip and The Hangover so why has he made the switch to more serious material of late? Well, in […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Ghost Town Anthology
Ghost Town Anthology, 2019. Directed by Denis Côté. Starring Robert Naylor, Josée Deschênes, Jean-Michel Anctil, Diane Lavallée and Larissa Corriveau. SYNOPSIS: An isolated rural community is locked in a fugue of grief after the potential suicide of one of its residents. Grief is one of the most intimate human emotions. It’s deeply private and intensely […]
Eli Roth is set to produce slasher film 10-31 for Orion
Eli Roth is set to produce the horror-thriller 10-31 which has been acquired by Orion Pictures and is scripted by writers Ian Shorr (Splinter) and Peter Gamble. The slasher film follows a young woman who takes her niece and nephew trick-or-treating and discovers a note inside a candy wrapper that says there’s a killer loose on […]
Armando Iannucci’s The Personal History of David Copperfield gets a first trailer
Coinciding with its UK premiere at the London Film Festival, Lionsgate has released a poster and trailer for director Armando Iannucci’s (In the Loop) take on the classic Charles Dickens novel The Personal History of David Copperfield. The film stars Dev Patel in the title role alongside a cast that includes Peter Capaldi, Hugh Laurie, […]
Why Guardians of the Galaxy was such a massive financial success
Anthony Stokes on why Guardians of the Galaxy was such a massive financial success… As it stands now, Guardians of the Galaxy has $770 million dollars worldwide, passing every other comic book movie released this year, and second only Transformers: Age of Extinction in the highest-earning movies of the year. I did predict Guardians having […]
Studio Ghibli Season – Grave of the Fireflies
As part of the BFI’s Studio Ghibli Season, Simon Columb reviews Grave of the Fireflies… A Studio Ghibli season at the BFI has highlighted the very best of Japanese animation. We can define the cuddly Totoro or fantastical world of Princess Mononoke as what Studio Ghibli stands for – but Grave of the Fireflies proves […]
