Mapplethorpe, 2019. Directed by Ondi Timoner. Starring Matt Smith, Marianne Rendón, John Benjamin Hickey, Brandon Sklenar, McKinley Belcher III, Mark Moses, and Hari Nef. SYNOPSIS: A look at the life of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe from his rise to fame in the 1970s to his untimely death in 1989. Not to drag Bohemian Rhapsody through the mud […]
Movie Review – How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019)
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, 2019. Written and Directed by Dean DeBlois. Featuring the voice talents of Jay Baruchel, Craig Ferguson, Gerard Butler. America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Kristen Wiig, Justin Rupple, Cate Blanchett, Kit Harington, F. Murray Abraham, Robin Atkin Downes, Gideon Emery, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, and David Tennant. SYNOPSIS: When […]
The Strangers 2 director Johannes Roberts on the horror classics that have inspired the upcoming sequel
The Strangers was a surprisingly good horror movie back in 2008. The film preyed on our instinctual fear of isolation, home invasion, and evil without any motive. A sequel was greenlit ages ago, and was only recently announced to be back in production; the movie was previously thought to be cancelled due to financial problems, […]
Black Panther’s Danai Gurira confirmed for Avengers: Infinity War
It looks like we have yet another MCU character confirmed for Avengers: Infinity War. According to Deadline, actress Danai Gurira (The Walking Dead) is set to be a part of the already enormous cast for Avengers: Infinity War and will reprise her role as Okoye from 2018’s Black Panther. Gurira is not the first member of […]
Movie Review – Never Look Away (2018)
Never Look Away, 2018. Written and Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. Starring Tom Schilling, Sebastian Koch, Paula Beer, Saskia Rosendahl, Oliver Masucci, Lars Eidinger, Florian Bartholomäi, Hanno Koffler, Rainer Bock, Ulrike C. Tscharre, Pit Bukowski, Ben Becker, Ina Weisse, Evgeniy Sidikhin, Johanna Gastdorf, Johannes Allmayer, Jörg Schüttauf, Stefan Mehren, Mark Zak, Bastian Trost, Hans-Uwe Bauer, […]
Movie Review – Happy Death Day 2U (2019)
Happy Death Day 2U, 2019. Written and Directed by Christopher Landon. Starring Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Phi Vu, Suraj Sharma, Sarah Yarkin, Rachel Matthews, and Ruby Modine. SYNOPSIS: Tree Gelbman learns that dying over and over again was surprisingly easier than the dangers that lie ahead. So, here’s a little bit of insider information regarding critics […]
John McTiernan on why Jean-Claude Van Damme dropped out of the original Predator film
Even if you are not a film buff, you’ve probably heard that action legend Jean-Claude Van Damme was initially supposed to play the titular alien in the original Predator film. So, what happened? According to John McTiernan, director of the 1987 original, the answer is far less dramatic than one might have thought. It seems the blame […]
Movie Review – To Dust (2018)
To Dust, 2018. Directed by Shawn Snyder Starring Géza Röhrig, Matthew Broderick, Sammy Voit, and Leo Heller SYNOPSIS: Shmuel, a Hasidic cantor in Upstate New York, distraught by the untimely death of his wife, struggles to find religious solace, while secretly obsessing over how her body will decay. As a clandestine partnership develops with Albert, […]
Movie Review – The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part (2019)
The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part, 2019. Directed by Mike Mitchell. Featuring the voice talents of Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Tiffany Haddish, Stephanie Beatriz, Alison Brie, Nick Offerman, Charlie Day, Margot Robbie, Jason Momoa, Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill, Gal Gadot, Arturo Castro, Jadon Sand, Brooklynn Prince, Ben Schwartz, Noel Fielding, Ike Barinholtz, […]
Movie Review – Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
Alita: Battle Angel, 2019. Directed by Robert Rodríguez Starring Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz, Ed Skrein, Mahershala Ali, Jennifer Connelly, Keean Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez, Lana Condor, Jackie Earle Haley, Eiza González, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Marko Zaror, Elle LaMont, Leonard Wu, Casper Van Dien, Jeff Fahey, Idara Victor, Sam Medina and Jai Courtney. SYNOPSIS: When Alita awakens […]
