After years in development, Spawn creator Todd McFarlane finally found a home for his long-planned big screen reboot of his classic comic book series back in July in Blumhouse Productions, with the studio granting McFarlane his wish to retain full creative control, as well as directing the project. Spawn will mark McFarlane’s directorial debut, and […]
Movie Review – Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)
Kingsman: The Golden Circle, 2017. Directed by Matthew Vaughn. Starring Taron Egerton, Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Channing Tatum, Jeff Bridges, Halle Berry, Mark Strong, Edward Holcroft, and Pedro Pascal. SYNOPSIS: When their headquarters are destroyed and the world is held hostage, the Kingsman’s journey leads them to the discovery of an allied spy organisation in […]
James Cameron says Terminator 6 views the later sequels as “a bad dream”, will introduce a new female lead
Over the past week or so we’ve heard several details on director Tim Miller and producer James Cameron’s plans for a sixth Terminator movie. We know that both Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton will be returning to the franchise, and that the new movie will serve as a direct sequel to Terminator 2: Judgment Day. […]
Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese to reteam for Teddy Roosevelt biopic
It looks like Martin Scorsese will follow up his currently-in-production mob epic The Irishman by reuniting with Leonardo DiCaprio, although it may not be for the previously reported FBI tale Killers of the Flower Moon or the Dr. H.H. Holmes serial killer film The Devil in the White City. According to Deadline, the duo are […]
October Horrors 2017 Day 1 – Alien (1979)
Alien, 1979. Directed by Ridley Scott. Starring Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartright, Harry Dean Stanton, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto and John Hurt. SYNOPSIS: The crew of the cargo ship Nostromo receives a distress signal from a nearby planet and while investigating, one of the crew is attacked by a parasite which implants an embryo […]
Kaya Scodelario and Josh Hutcherson set for Romeo and Juliet update Die in a Gunfight
The Mark Gordon Company has set Kaya Scodelario (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales), Josh Hutcherson (The Hunger Games), Olivia Munn (X-Men: Apocalypse) and Helen Hunt (As Good as It Gets) to star in the action romance Die in a Gunfight, a modern update on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Die in […]
Men in Black spinoff sets screenwriters and release date
After toying with the idea of a Jump Street crossover, it seems that Sony has decided to dust off its Men in Black franchise by officially moving forward on a spinoff to the blockbuster franchise. Deadline is reporting that the studio has set a May 17th 2019 release date for the as-yet-untitled film, which has […]
Why Do So Many Sequels Disappoint?
Neil Calloway looks at why so few sequels are better than the films that precede them… With the advance word on Blade Runner 2049 good, with some saying it’s at least the equal of the original (read our review here), it’s got me thinking why so few sequels surpass the first film. In theory, it […]
Watch the trailer for supernatural thriller Slumber starring Maggie Q
A new trailer has debuted for the upcoming supernatural thriller Slumber. Directed by Jonathan Hopkins, the film stars Maggie Q, Will Kemp, Sylvester McCoy, and William Hope; watch it below… Alice is a rational-minded sleep doctor, haunted by the mysterious nocturnal death of her younger brother. Whilst performing a routine examination on a traumatized family […]
Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland star in trailer for The Leisure Seeker
Following its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival earlier this month, a new trailer has been released for director Paolo Virzi’s English-language debut The Leisure Seeker. Based on Michael Zadoorian’s 2009 novel of the same name, the drama stars Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland; watch it below… Traveling in their family Leisure Seeker vintage […]
