Given that it’s based upon a direct sequel to the book and features several returning characters, it probably won’t come as much of a surprise to hear that the upcoming adaptation of Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep will make reference to The Shining. However, in an interview with Bloody Disgusting, director Mike Flanagan has revealed that […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Wildlife
Wildlife, 2018. Directed by Paul Dano. Starring Carey Mulligan, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ed Oxenbould and Bill Camp. SYNOPSIS: A boy witnesses his parents’ marriage falling apart after his mother finds another man. Paul Dano makes a staggering debut with this emotionally charged adaptation of Richard Ford’s 1990 novel, a meticulously assembled drama about family, masculinity and female agency […]
Marvel officially wraps production on Avengers 4
Directors Anthony and Joe Russo have taken to social media to announce that filming has officially wrapped on Avengers 4, the hugely-anticipated follow-up to this year’s smash hit superhero blockbuster Avengers: Infinity War. https://twitter.com/Russo_Brothers/status/1050957806248054785 Marvel has done an exceptional job of keeping details on Avengers 4 under wraps, with little known about the sequel aside […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, 2018. Directed by Ethan Coen & Joel Coen. Starring Tim Blake Nelson, Liam Neeson, Brendan Gleeson, Tom Waits, Harry Melling, Zoe Kazan, James Franco, Bill Heck, Grainger Hines, Chelcie Ross, and Jonjo O’Neill. SYNOPSIS: A collection of six Western-style shorts set out on the frontier, taking in stories of a […]
Tessa Thompson shares new Men in Black photo with Chris Hemsworth
Tessa Thompson has shared a new image from the set for the upcoming Men in Black spin-off movie which sees Thompson and her Thor: Ragnarok co-star Chris Hemsworth’s MiB agents trekking through the desert holding black umbrellas; take a look here… https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo1kOqCnU2_/?taken-by=tessamaethompson F. Gary Gray (The Fate of the Furious) is directing from a script […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Nancy
Nancy, 2018. Directed by Christina Choe. Starring Andrea Riseborough, J. Smith-Cameron, Ann Dowd, John Leguizamo, and Steve Buscemi. SYNOPSIS: Nancy becomes increasingly convinced she was kidnapped as a child. When she meets a couple whose daughter went missing thirty years ago, reasonable doubts give way to wilful belief. Andrea Riseborough adds yet another towering performance to […]
Sarah Paulson teams with Searching director for thriller Run
American Horror Story star Sarah Paulson has signed on for the lead in Run, a thriller in the works at Lionsgate, which reteams Searching director Aneesh Chaganty with producers Sev Ohanian and Natalie Qasabian. The film, which has been co-written by Chaganty and Ohanian, will see Paulson playing a mother who has raised her teenage […]
Samuel L. Jackson, Anthony Mackie and Nicholas Hoult join The Banker
Deadline is reporting that Marvel Cinematic Universe stars Samuel L. Jackson and Anthony Mackie are teaming with X-Men’s Nicholas Hoult for The Banker, a fact based drama from director George Nolfi (The Adjustment Bureau). The film tells the story of two African American entrepreneurs, Bernard Garrett (Mackie) and Joe Morris (Jackson), who attempted to circumvent […]
Malcolm McDowell to play Rupert Murdoch in Fox News movie Fair and Balanced
Veteran actor Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange, Mozart in the Jungle) has become the latest addition to the cast of Fair and Balanced, director Jay Roach’s (Trumbo) upcoming film about disgraced Fox News chief Roger Ailes, with McDowell set to portray News Corp Chairman and media mogul Rupert Murdoch. McDowell joins a star-studded cast that […]
DVD Review – Thelma Todd & Zasu Pitts: The Hal Roach Collection 1931-33
Thelma Todd & Zasu Pitts: The Hal Roach Collection 1931-33 Directed by Hal Roach, Marshall Neilan, George Marshall, Gus Meins, and others. Starring Thelma Todd and Zasu Pitts. SYNOPSIS: Thelma Todd and Zasu Pitts are a comedy duo in these seventeen, pre-code shorts from Hal Roach. A little over two years ago Turner Classic Movies […]
