Neil Calloway On Why The English Accent Still Reigns Supreme With Hollywood Villains… I was watching, and enjoying Logan Lucky earlier this week; it’s a well made, fresh, fun film that will make you laugh. One moment, however, had me wincing into the drink I’d snuck into the cinema (if you think I’m paying the […]
Lost In Translation: Why Video Game Movies Always Disappoint
Jordan Jones on video game movies and why they always disappoint… Hollywood doesn’t understand the rules of video games. Can we all agree on that? Unless this changes, there may never be a truly “good” video game movie, and I fear that we will be forever steeped in “bad” (Super Mario Bros.) to “just okay” […]
Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War adds another Black Panther cast member
Just in case the cast of Avengers: Infinity War wasn’t big enough already, IMDb is reporting that we can add another Black Panther star to the roster of the Marvel superhero epic, with Letitia Wright set to reprise the role of Shuri, the sister of T’Challa. Wright will feature alongside the previously announced Danai Gurira […]
The Week in Spandex – Joker movies, Justice League rumours, James Cameron slams Wonder Woman, Avengers 4 set photos, Gambit update and more
In this edition of The Week in Spandex, we look at The Joker, Joker and Harley Quinn, The Batman, Justice League, Justice League Dark, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Titans, Supergirl, Batman and Harley Quinn, Batman: Gotham By Gaslight, Avengers 4, Avengers: Infinity War, Thor: Ragnarok, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, […]
Why Ed Skrein’s decision to walk away from Hellboy is a game changer
Anghus Houvouras on Ed Skrein’s decision to walk away from the Hellboy reboot following whitewashing criticism… Damn. That’s what I said out loud when I read Ed Skrein’s statement about why he was walking away from the Hellboy reboot. If you hadn’t already heard, Skrein had been cast as Ben Daimio in the Hellboy reboot […]
Doctor Strange screenwriter rumoured to be penning Justice League Dark
Following reports earlier in the week that Warner Bros. has gone back to the drawing board on Justice League Dark following the departure of director Doug Liman, it has now been rumoured that the studio has enlisted a new screenwriter for the supernatural DC ensemble. According to The Hashtag Show, Prometheus and Doctor Strange screenwriter […]
Christopher Nolan becomes fifth-highest grossing director of all time
Christopher Nolan has become the fifth highest grossing director in movie history. With the release of his latest effort, Dunkirk, blockbuster director Nolan has moved into esteemed company indeed, passing the likes of Ron Howard and James Cameron into the top five highest grossing directors in terms of domestic box office. Dunkirk has so far […]
Shoah: 70 Years after the Liberation of Auschwitz
On the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Simon Columb revisits Shoah… A 9-hour film, Shoah is the definitive documentary on the holocaust. There is no effort to contextualise the “Final Solution” in World War II, and instead it focuses on reiterating the inhumanity. Akin to The Act of Killing, Claude Lanzmann takes us […]
Cinderella meets her Prince Charming in new clip from Kenneth Branagh’s Cinderella
Ahead of its release next month Walt Disney Pictures has released a new clip for Kenneth Branagh’s live action adaptation of the classic fairy tale Cinderella which sees Cinderella meet her Prince Charming for the first time; check it out below after the official synopsis… The story of “Cinderella” follows the fortunes of young Ella […]
Robin Hood: Origins script being shopped around by Knights of the Round Table writer
Had enough of origin stories? Well, the man behind Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur movie Knights of the Round Table is shopping around his new script Robin Hood: Origins. According to Deadline, Joby Harold has written a “dark and gritty” take on the infamous character. At present no studios are interested in developing it, but Sony […]
