The Hero, 2017. Directed by Brett Haley. Starring Sam Elliott, Laura Prepon, Nick Offerman, Krysten Ritter, and Katherine Ross. SYNOPSIS: With his glory days far behind him, a fading movie star is forced to confront his past and his own mortality. It’s one of the most distinctive voices in the movies. Sam Elliott’s gravelly tones […]
Peter Rabbit gets a new poster and ‘Meet Peter’ featurette
Ahead of its release next month, Sony has debuted a new quad poster for the Peter Rabbit movie, as well as a new featurette introducing the classic character, voiced in the movie by James Corden. Check them out here… SEE ALSO: Peter Rabbit character featurettes for Daisy Ridley’s Cotton-Tail and Elizabeth Debicki’s Mopsy Peter Rabbit, […]
Sopranos stars reunite for Sarah Q
Deadline is reporting that Sopranos veterans Tony Sirico (Paulie Walnuts), Vincent Pastore (Big Pussy), Federico Castelluccio (Furio), William DeMeo (Jason Molinaro) and Artie Pasquale (Burt Gervasi) are reuniting for the John A. Gallagher-directed movie Sarah Q. According to the site, the film is “a serio-comic tale of a young girl’s struggle to succeed at a […]
Zombie drama The Cured gets a new poster
A couple of days ago we brought you a trailer for The Cured [check it out here], and now a new poster has arrived online for David Freyne’s upcoming zombie drama which stars Ellen Page, Sam Keeley, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, and Paula Malcomson; take a look below… SEE ALSO: Read our review of The Cured here What happens […]
Poster and trailer for sci-fi thriller Diverge
Gravitas Ventures has released a poster and trailer for the new sci-fi thriller Diverge, which follows a solitary survivor of a deadly virus who is given the chance to reclaim his life by altering his past. Check them out here… In the aftermath of a mysterious pandemic that’s turned cities into wastelands, a man desperately […]
An Unsubstantiated Opinion: Rian Johnson’s perplexing relationship with Star Wars: The Last Jedi critics
Anghus Houvouras on Rian Johnson’s perplexing relationship with Star Wars: The Last Jedi critics… When forging our opinions, we spend a unnecessary amount of time worrying about being on the ‘right’ side of an argument. When it comes to cinema, there is no ‘right’ and ‘wrong’. There are only widely varying feelings of the entire human […]
In Praise of Sam Rockwell
Tom Jolliffe looks at the career of the vastly underrated Sam Rockwell… So after doing a piece on the fantastic Frances McDormand, sticking with the Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri connection, it seemed apt to do a piece on an actor who has always slipped just below the radar. Sam Rockwell is always great and […]
Disney’s The Jungle Book 2 will feature unused ideas from the original animated movie
Following the box office success of The Jungle Book, director Jon Favreau is currently hard at work on bringing another of Disney’s animated classics back to the big screen with a “live-action” remake of The Lion King, after which he’ll be returning to the world of Rudyard Kipling for The Jungle Book 2. Speaking to […]
Good Concept, Bad Delivery
Tom Jolliffe takes a look at when good concepts are badly executed… Occasionally you’ll see a film or a TV show and you wonder why they bothered at all. Everything goes wrong. Sometimes it starts from the very concept. In the case of remakes for example, you know right off the bat that some films […]
Banning Films Always Backfires
Neil Calloway argues that Russian censors have made a mistake… While you were getting upset that your favourite film hadn’t been nominated for an Oscar – some of us are still annoyed that Under Siege was never recognised by the Academy – you may have missed the news that The Death of Stalin has been […]
