The Last Tree, 2019. Directed by Shola Amoo. Starring Sam Adewumni, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Demmy Ladipo, Ruthxjiah Bellenea, Tai Golding, Denise Black and Nicholas Pinnock. SYNOPSIS: A Nigerian-British boy is taken from a comfortable rural foster home to live with his biological mother in the city, bringing about an identity crisis that reverberates into his teenage […]
Lucasfilm to produce Children of Blood and Bone for Disney
Back in February it was announced that Rick Famuyiwa (Dope) had signed on to direct an adaptation of Tomi Adeyemi’s YA fantasy Children of Blood and Bone for Fox 2000, and now comes word that the project has transitioned to Lucasfilm following Disney’s Fox acquisition. Deadline reports that Lucasfilm’s Kathleen Kennedy is on board to […]
Avengers: Endgame directors clarify how Captain America returned to the present
Joe and Anthony Russo, the directors of Avengers: Endgame, have clarified how Captain America returned to the present at the end of the movie. With all the time travel woven into the very fabric of Endgame‘s plot, some members of the audience might not be entirely clear on how Captain America was able to return […]
The Lion King tops Beauty and the Beast and Frozen to become Walt Disney Pictures’ highest-grossing movie
Another weekend, another box office record for entertainment titan The Walt Disney Company, with Jon Favreau’s remake of The Lion King pushing its worldwide box office haul to $1.334 billion, making it the highest grossing release from the conglomerate’s Walt Disney Pictures division. Disney’s previous biggest live-action release was Beauty and the Beast with $1.263 […]
Halle Bailey brushes aside criticism of Ariel casting in The Little Mermaid
Back at the start of last month it was announced that Grammy-nominated R&B artist Halle Bailey has been cast in the title role in Disney’s live-action remake of The Little Mermaid. As is often the case when it comes to beloved characters, reaction to the casting was mixed, and sadly included a vocal minority who […]
Sci-fi thriller Empathy, Inc. gets a trailer and poster
Ahead of its release this September, a poster and trailer have arrived online for director Yedidya Gorsetman’s upcoming sci-fi thriller Empathy, Inc.; take a look here… Hotshot venture capitalist Joel has a multimillion-dollar deal go up in smoke, and he and his actress wife Jessica are forced to move in with her parents and start […]
Neil Marshall fills out the cast of horror The Reckoning
Following the disappointing Hellboy reboot (where he reportedly endured a rather torrid time), Dog Soldiers and The Descent director Neil Marshall is going back to his roots for his next project, the low-budget period horror The Reckoning, and Deadline has revealed that the British filmmaker has filled out the cast of the movie. Set to […]
Idris Elba and Caleb McLaughlin set for Concrete Cowboys
Deadline is reporting that Idris Elba (Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw) and Caleb McLaughlin (Stranger Things) are set to star alongside Jharrel Jerome (When They See Us), Lorraine Toussaint (The Village) and Byron Bowers (The Chi) in the feature film Concrete Cowboys. Inspired by the Fletcher Street Stables, a real life black urban […]
Movie Review – The VelociPastor (2019)
The VelociPastor, 2019. Written and directed by Brendan Steere. Starring Gregory James Cohan, Alyssa Kempinski, Claire Hsu, Daniel Steere, Yang Jiechang, Jesse Turits, Fernando Pacheco de Castro, and Aurelio Voltaire. SYNOPSIS: After losing his parents, a priest travels to China, where he inherits a mysterious ability that allows him to turn into a dinosaur. At […]
Video Nasties – The Beyond (1981)
The Beyond, 1981. Directed by Lucio Fulci. Starring Catriona McCall, David Warbeck, Ciniza Monreale and Antoine St John. SYNOPSIS: In New Orleans in the 1920s, an artist is gruesomely killed by an angry mob who believe he is a warlock. Several decades later, a young woman named Liza acquires the hotel where the artist was killed […]
