My Feral Heart, 2016. Directed by Jane Gull. Starring Steven Brandon, Shana Swash, and Will Rastall. SYNOPSIS: The film follows Luke (Steven Brandon) a young man who is looking after his elderly and unwell mother. Luke is independent, he enjoys walking and cares well for his mother — he also happens to have Down’s syndrome. When […]
Aborted Justice League post-credit scene, Coco wins the box office weekend, Ben Mendelsohn wants to play Doctor Doom and more – Weekend News Roundup
NO LANTERNS… No spoilers for the DC team-up movie Justice League here, but a new post from a Reddit (who claims to be VFX artist on the movie) has said that there was a post-credits scene planned which features the Green Lantern Corps. The scene would have seen Bruce Wayne being awoken in his lake house by […]
Blu-ray Review – Animal Factory (2000)
Animal Factory, 2000. Directed by Steve Buscemi. Starring Willem Dafoe, Edward Furlong, Danny Trejo, Mickey Rourke, Tom Arnold, Mark Boone Junior, Edward Bunker, John Heard, and Steve Buscemi. SYNOPSIS: A privileged young man is sent to prison for drug dealing and falls under the wing of a lifer who takes a shine to him. Sometimes […]
Terry Gilliam provides an update on The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
Having wrapped production this summer, Terry Gilliam has been chatting to The New York Times about his long-gestating passion project The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, with the filmmaker revealing that he’s completed a rough cut which has been garnering a very positive response from those who have seen it. “We’ve almost finished the cut,” […]
Watch the trailer for acclaimed documentary Freedom for the Wolf
Following its European premiere earlier this month, we have a poster and trailer for the acclaimed documentary Freedom for the Wolf; check them out here, along with the official synopsis… Democracy is in crisis. A new generation of elected leaders are dismantling freedom and democracy as we know it. A ground-breaking, powerful and original statement […]
Roland Emmerich producing adaptation of Mozart’s The Magic Flute
Filmmaker Roland Emmerich is taking a break from destroying the world to produce a modern-day adaptatin of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute. Variety reports that the film will follow “15-year-old Tim Walker, who is sent from London to the Austrian Alps to attend the renowned Mozart boarding school, where he discovers a centuries-old forgotten passageway […]
The Week in Spandex – Justice League, Flashpoint, Batgirl, Arrowverse Crossover, Avengers: Infinity War, The Punisher, X-Men: Dark Phoenix and more
In this edition of The Week in Spandex, we look at Justice League, Aquaman, Flashpoint, Shazam, The Batman, Nightwing, Batgirl, Supergirl, The Flash, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Arrow, Gotham, Watchmen, Harley Quinn, Avengers: Infinity War, Thor: Ragnarok, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Black Panther, Captain Marvel, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, The Punisher, Luke Cage, […]
Ben Mendelsohn wants to play Doctor Doom, praises him as “the greatest comic character of all time”
Although it’s yet to be made official by Marvel, it seems that Ben Mendelsohn (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) will be joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with the actor slated to play the lead Skrull villain opposite Brie Larson’s Carol Danvers and Jude Law’s Mar-Vell in 2019’s Captain Marvel. However, it seems that Mendelsohn […]
Coco takes down Justice League with $70 million box office opening
Disney-Pixar’s day-of-the-dead delight Coco conquered the Thanksgiving box-office with an estimated $71 million this weekend ($49 million 3-day total), knocking Justice League down a spot with $60 million over the same five-day period, and a running domestic total of $171 million after ten days of release. Coco‘s numbers gave it the third best Thanksgiving opening ever, […]
James Cameron on the technical challenges of shooting underwater on the Avatar sequels
Although plot details on James Cameron’s four Avatar sequels are being kept tightly under wraps, we do know that the movies will explore the oceans of Pandora, with Avatar 2 and Avatar 3 in particular set to feature a number of underwater sequences. Given that the Avatar movies rely heavily on performance capture, this change […]
