Paradise Alley, 1978. Written and Directed by Sylvester Stallone. Starring Sylvester Stallone, Lee Canalito, Armand Assante, Anne Archer, Frank McRae, Joe Spinell, Terry Funk, Frank Stallone, and Tom Waits. SYNOPSIS: Three brothers in the slums of 1940s New York try to make their fortune by training the youngest sibling to become an underground wrestler. After […]
Movie Review – Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool (2017)
Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool, 2017. Directed by Paul McGuigan. Starring Annette Bening, Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Kenneth Cranham, Frances Barber and Vanessa Redgrave. SYNOPSIS: When British actor, Peter Turner, receives an unexpected phone call, it tells him that his former lover, Oscar-winning Hollywood actress Gloria Grahame, has collapsed in a hotel and is […]
Second Opinion – The Greatest Showman (2017)
The Greatest Showman, 2017. Directed by Michael Gracey. Starring Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya, Michelle Williams, Paul Sparks, Diahann Carroll, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Ziv Zaifman, and Natasha Liu Bordizzo. SYNOPSIS The Greatest Showman is the tale of entertainment revolutionary P.T. Barnum (Hugh Jackman) and the extraordinary lengths he went to bring spectacle to […]
The Greatest Showman gets a new trailer
With a little over five weeks to go until The Greatest Showman arrives in US cinemas, a new trailer has been released for the upcoming biographical musical drama which stars Hugh Jackman in the lead role as showman and founder the Barnum & Bailey Travelling Circus, P.T. Barnum; watch it below… “The Greatest Showman” is […]
Rumour: An aborted post-credits scene for Justice League would have featured the Green Lantern Corps
Minor spoilers for Justice League follow. You have been warned… Throughout the production of Justice League, there were several rumours suggesting that members of the Green Lantern Corps would make an appearance in the DC blockbuster, and while we did see an unnamed Lantern battling Steppenwolf in the flashback scene, it seems the original plans […]
Failing On The Basics: Why You Can’t Fix a Film Which Never Had the Right Foundations
Tom Jolliffe on why trying to salvage a film in post production is pointless if you never had the basics right in the first place… So Justice League came out. I’d say too much fanfare but whilst there was undoubtedly excitement, and whilst it has inevitably made a lot of money already (not as much […]
LEGO unveils its Justice League BrickHeadz sets
Coinciding with the release of Justice League, LEGO has revealed its 2018 BrickHeadz sets for the superhero team-up movie which includes Wonder Woman, The Flash, Aquaman, and Cyborg; check them out below… Fueled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman’s selfless act, Bruce Wayne enlists the help of his newfound ally, Diana Prince, […]
Ciaran Hinds discusses Justice League’s villain Steppenwolf
We’re just a few short hours away from the release of Justice League, the latest chapter in the DC Extended Universe, which sees DC’s greatest heroes teaming up to save the world from the threat of Steppenwolf, played by former Game of Thrones star Ciaran Hinds. We’ve only had a few brief glimpses of the […]
SPOILERS: Justice League post-credits scenes revealed
Spoilers for the post-credits scenes of Justice League follow. You have been warned… Having recently screened for critics around the world, we can now tell readers some spoilerific secrets regarding what goes on after the credits for Justice League. The first takes place around 30 seconds in, showing Superman and The Flash getting ready to […]
Justice League producer says reshoots account for around 20% of the movie
It’s starting to become par for the course with DC movies that their productions are rife with rumour and speculation about behind-the-scenes drama, and sure enough that has been the case with the most recent, Justice League, which opens in cinemas this week. Throughout the production there was talk that Warner Bros. was unhappy with […]