After scoring an eight-minute standing ovation following its premiere last weekend, Warner Bros. and DC Films’ Joker has been selected for the top prize, the prestigious Golden Lion, by the jury at the Venice Film Festival. “They took a comic book mythology that has been done in so many ways and overturned it and revitalized […]
Adam Devine, Rachel Bloom, Zazie Beetz and Ken Jeong set for animated feature Extinct
Adam Devine (The Righteous Gemstones), Rachel Bloom (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), Zazie Beetz (Deadpool 2) and Ken Jeong (Crazy Rich Asians) have signed on to the voice cast of Extinct, an animated feature from director David Silverman (The Simpsons) and China Lion, HB Wink, Huayi Tencent Entertainment Ltd, Tolerable Entertainment and Timeless Films. The adventure comedy follows […]
Justin Timberlake to star in drama feature Palmer
Justin Timberlake has signed on for the lead role in Palmer, a new drama from actor and director Fisher Stevens (Before the Flood) and producer Charles B. Wessler (Green Book). According to Deadline, the film will see Timberlake starring as Eddie Palmer, ” a former college football phenomenon who, after a stint in prison, returns […]
The Nightingale’s Jennifer Kent to direct Alice + Freda Forever
The Babadook and The Nightingale director Jennifer Kent is teaming with Amazon Studios for an adaptation of Alexis Coe’s non-fiction book Alice + Freda Forever. Taking place in Memphis, Tennessee in the 1890s, the thriller will tell the story of Alice Mitchell and Freda Ward, two teenage girls who fell in love, only for jealousy […]
Christoph Waltz joins Liam Hemsworth in Quibi action thriller series
Oscar-winner Christoph Waltz has signed on to star alongside Liam Hemsworth in an as-yet-untitled action thriller series from writer Nick Santora (Scorpion) and director Phil Abraham (Mad Men), which is being produced for the upcoming Quibi streaming service. As per Deadline, the series sees Hemsworth as Dodge Maynard, who – desperate to take care of […]
Movie Review – It Chapter Two (2019)
It Chapter Two, 2019. Directed by Andy Muschietti. Starring James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Bill Skargard, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, Jay Ryan, James Ransone, Andy Bean, Teach Grant, Jaeden Martell, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, Chosen Jacobs, Jack Dylan Grazer, Wyatt Oleff, and Nicholas Hamilton. SYNOPSIS: Twenty-seven years after their first encounter with the […]
Disney’s Ongoing Fight To Be Feminist
Kate Harrold on Disney’s ongoing fight to be feminist… The Disney Princess is an iconic film archetype and one that has been around since Snow White and the Seven Dwarves premiered in 1938 and it doesn’t seem to be a figure fading from our cultural canon anytime soon. With reinvention being a continuous process, the […]
Iko Uwais to play the Hard Master in G.I. Joe spinoff Snake Eyes
The Raid and Wu Assassins star Iko Uwais looks set to become the latest addition to the cast of Snake Eyes, with THR reporting that the actor is in talks to portray the Hard Master in the G.I. Joe spinoff film. Should the deal close, Uwais will join Henry Golding (Crazy Rich Asians), who is […]
Charlize Theron teases Cipher return with Fast & Furious 9 behind-the-scenes photos
Back in July it was revealed that The Fate of the Furious villain Cipher will be returning in next year’s currently-untitled Fast & Furious 9, and now actress Charlize Theron has shared a couple of behind-the-scenes photos from the set which show that the cyberterrorist has ditched her dreadlocks and is going for a new […]
Rooney Mara heads to Nightmare Alley with Guillermo del Toro
Deadline has revealed that Rooney Mara (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Mary Magdalene) has become the latest addition to the cast of Guillermo del Toro’s next directorial effort Nightmare Alley. The film will reunite Mara with her Carol co-star Cate Blanchett and also stars Bradley Cooper (A Star Is Born). Cooper plays Stan, a […]
