After trying his hand with a Hollywood blockbuster in Assassin’s Creed, director Justin Kurzel is heading back to his native Australia for his next film, reuniting with his Snowtown screenwriter for The True History of the Kelly Gang, which is based on Peter Carey’s Booker Prize-winning novel of the same name and tells the story […]
Movie Review – Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
Murder on the Orient Express, 2017. Directed by Kenneth Branagh. Starring Kenneth Branagh, Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Judi Dench, Josh Gad, Leslie Odom, Jr., Michelle Pfeiffer, and Daisy Ridley. SYNOPSIS: What starts out as a lavish train ride through Europe quickly unfolds into one of the most stylish, suspenseful and thrilling mysteries ever […]
First trailer for Steven Spielberg’s The Post starring Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep
Ahead of its US release next month, 20th Century Fox has debuted the first poster and trailer along with a batch of new images for director Steven Spielberg’s upcoming drama The Post which stars Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Alison Brie, Carrie Coon, David Cross, Bruce Greenwood, Tracy Letts, Bob Odenkirk, Sarah Paulson, Jesse Plemons, Matthew […]
Guillermo del Toro has lined up Nightmare Alley as a future project
Guillermo del Toro is looking to the future and has lined up another directorial project. While he may be celebrating all the awards buzz being generated by his latest movie, The Shape of Water, del Toro does have an eye on the future. Variety has confirmed that the del Toro produced Antlers could be gaining Scott […]
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio movie isn’t happening
Guillermo del Toro has revealed that his planned Pinocchio movie is no longer happening. The director’s stop-motion adaptation of the classic tale had been in the works since 2008, wanting to base his film on Gris Grimly’s art of Carlo Collodi’s famous 1883 novel, The Adventures of Pinocchio. The idea was to make a much […]
Guillermo del Toro was offered the reins of Universal’s Dark Universe, regrets turning it down
Earlier this year, Universal Pictures unleashed The Mummy, which was intended to launch a brand new shared ‘Dark Universe’ featuring the studio’s classic monsters and would lead into a host of movies such as Bride of Frankenstein, The Invisible Man, The Wolf Man and Creature from the Black Lagoon. Unfortunately for Universal, The Mummy wasn’t […]
Flickering Myth Film Class: The Audio/Visual depiction of mental breakdown
In the latest instalment of Flickering Myth’s film class, Tom Jolliffe looks at the audio and visual tools a film-maker can effectively use to portray a characters descent into madness… In previous film classes (which I should say are merely showcases for films that excel in whatever subject springs to my mind before writing) I’ve […]
Asher Angel to play Billy Batson in Shazam!
A couple of weeks ago Zachary Levi was announced in the lead role of the upcoming DC film Shazam!. In the comics, Shazam is actually the young boy Billy Batson, who transforms into an older version of himself by saying “Shazam”. And now the role of Shazam’s young counterpart has been cast with Variety reporting Asher […]
Rashida Jones and Nick Offerman set for animated White Fang movie
Deadline is reporting that Parks and Recreation’s Rashida Jones and Nick Offerman are set to reunite on a new animated adaptation of Jack London’s classic novel White Fang. The new film is being directed by Alexandre Espirages, the Oscar-winning director of the short Mr. Hublot, from a script by Dominique Monfery and Serge Frusman. Clément […]
First look at Rafe Spall in comedy Denmark
BBC Films, Ffilm Cymru Wales and WestEnd Films today release a first look at Rafe Spall (The Big Short, The BFG) as Herb in Denmark, the upcoming comedy from director Adrian Shergold (Funny Cow, Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman, Mad Dogs). Herb (Rafe Spall) can fix pretty much anything, a broken clock, a radio, the only […]