The Academy voters delivered a surprise at last night’s 91st Academy Awards as Green Book was named Best Picture, leaving hot favourite Roma to settle for Best Foreign Language Film. Green Book picked up three Oscars in total, adding Best Supporting Actor (Mahershala Ali) and Best Original Screenplay, while there were also big wins for […]
Exclusive Interview – The Aftermath director James Kent on shedding light on postwar history
Tom Beasley sits down with James Kent, director of The Aftermath, to discuss the history behind his adaptation of an acclaimed romantic novel… The old-fashioned Hollywood romance is alive and well this week with the release of The Aftermath, which crafts a love triangle from the rubble left behind by the Second World War. In […]
Blu-ray Review – Class of 1984 (1982)
Class of 1984, 1982. Directed by Mark L. Lester. Starring Perry King, Merrie Lynn Ross, Timothy Van Patten, Roddy McDowall, Lisa Langlois, Erin Noble, Michael J. Fox, and Stefan Arngrim. SYNOPSIS: A new teacher at a violent inner city school goes up against a gang of vicious punks. In a month that also sees director […]
Gwendoline Christie and Cherry Jones join The Friend
Variety is reporting that Gwendoline Christie (Game of Thrones) and Cherry Jones (Boy Erased) have joined Dakota Johnson (Bad Times at the El Royale), Jason Segel (How I Met Your Mother) and Casey Affleck (Manchester By the Sea) in the cast of The Friend. The fact-based drama is based upon Matthew Teague’s Esquire Magazine article and tells […]
HBO promo features new footage from Watchmen, Game of Thrones and Deadwood
HBO has released a promo for its 2019 schedule which gives us our first look at its upcoming Deadwood movie as well a peek at some new footage from the eighth and final season of its hit fantasy series Game of Thrones and the small-screen adaptation/spinoff/sequel to Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ iconic comic book […]
Peter Parker offers some advice in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse deleted scene
Ahead of tonight’s Oscars where it will be hoping to add the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature to the BAFTA it won earlier this month, Sony has unveiled a deleted scene from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse which sees Peter Parker offering a few words of advice to an emotional Miles Morales; watch it here… SEE […]
Alita: Battle Angel delivers record opening for Fox in China
It may not quite have set the North American box office alight, but it looks like the international markets may save director Robert Rodriguez and producer James Cameron’s Alita: Battle Angel from all of the early predictions of doom and gloom. The manga adaptation opened in China this weekend, where it secured 20th Century Fox […]
Exclusive: Jason Clarke defends Pet Sematary changes; says “Stephen King didn’t have a problem with it”
Jason Clarke has defended controversial changes in the upcoming remake of Stephen King horror Pet Sematary, saying King himself “didn’t have a problem” with the decision. Clarke, who stars as disturbed father Louis Creed in the film, added that, as an actor, “you don’t care” about fan reaction before the release of the finished product. […]
Second Opinion – Paddleton (2019)
Paddleton, 2019. Directed by Alex Lehmann. Starring Mark Duplass and Ray Romano. SYNOPSIS: An unlikely friendship between two misfit neighbours becomes an unexpectedly emotional journey when the younger man is diagnosed with terminal cancer. 2019 has thus far served up mixed results for Netflix’s avalanche of movies released under their Originals label, but mumblecore icon […]
Shazam! promo art features the Marvel Family and the Seven Deadly Sins
Four new pieces of promo art have surfaced online for the next instalment in the DC Extended Universe, Shazam!, which feature Zachary Levi’s titular superhero along with the Marvel Family and the Seven Deadly Sins; check it out here… SEE ALSO: Aquaman’s James Wan offers Shazam! director advice on dealing with fan expectations We all have […]
