Actress Margot Kidder, best known for portraying Lois Lane opposite Christopher Reeve’s Clark Kent in the Superman movie series, passed away at her home in Livingston, Montana yesterday, aged 69. Kidder began her career in the late 1960s, scoring her first major role alongside Beau Bridges in 1969’s Gaily, Gaily. Over the next few years […]
Mission: Impossible – Fallout gets a new poster, trailer incoming on Wednesday
With a new trailer set to arrive this Wednesday, Paramount Pictures has revealed a poster for Mission: Impossible – Fallout featuring Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Ving Rhames, Alec Baldwin, and Angela Bassett. Check it out here… The best intentions often come back to haunt you. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – FALLOUT finds Ethan […]
Lars Von Trier’s The House That Jack Built gets a first trailer
Coinciding with its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, the first trailer has debuted for writer-director Lars Von Trier’s upcoming thriller The House That Jack Built which sees Matt Dillon leading a cast that includes Uma Thurman, Bruno Ganz, Ed Speleers, Sofie Grabol, Riley Keough, and Yu Ji-tae; watch it here… The House That Jack Built tells […]
Exclusive Interview – Director Dominic Cooke talks On Chesil Beach and his next film Ironbark
Director Dominic Cooke made his name in the theatre, with much-praised stints at The Royal Court, The Royal Shakespeare Company and The National Theatre. TV’s award winning The Hollow Crown (2012) followed and he now arrives in cinemas with his first movie, On Chesil Beach, adapted from the novella by Ian McEwan. A self-confessed constant […]
Movie Review – On Chesil Beach (2017)
On Chesil Beach (2017) Directed by Dominic Cooke Starring Saoirse Ronan, Billy Howle, Sam West, Emily Watson, Anne-Marie Duff, Adrian Scarborough and Bebe Cave. SYNOPSIS: It’s the early 1960s and newly-married couple, Florence and Edward, have arrived to spend their first night together at a hotel near Chesil Beach in Dorset. Their first attempt at […]
Christmas horror Sick for Toys gets a trailer and poster
Devilworks has released a poster and trailer for director David Del Rio’s upcoming festive horror Sick for Toys which stars Camille Montgomery, Jon Paul Burkhart, Justin Xavier, David Gunning, Melanie Thompson, Morgana Shaw, Katie Wallace; check them out here along with three images… The film tells the story of Roy, who accepts an invitation to have Christmas dinner […]
Movie Review – Island Zero (2017)
Island Zero, 2017. Directed by Josh Gerritsen. Starring Laila Robins, Adam Wade McLaughlin, Terri Reeves, Matthew Wilkas, and Elaine Landry. SYNOPSIS : A remote island off the coast of Maine, USA, finds itself cut off from the mainland when communications fail, and the ferry fails to appear. Then people start to disappear too, and the […]
The Most Disappointing: The ‘Genetically Engineered Killing Machine’ trope
Anghus Houvouras on the ‘Genetically Engineered Killing Machine’ trope… Blockbusters are frequently rife with clichés and tropes, gingerly strung together to construct a flimsy narrative from which they can hang their set-pieces. No one ever said big budget crowd-pleasers had to be wholly original. If that was a requirement we might only get 2 to […]
Blu-ray Review – Rawhead Rex (1986)
Rawhead Rex, 1986. Directed by George Pavlou. Starring David Dukes, Kelly Piper, Hugh O’Conor, Ronan Wilmot, John Olohan, and Heinrich von Schellendorf. SYNOPSIS: A farmer unleashes a demon known as Rawhead Rex, who proceeds to go on the rampage across rural Ireland. There is an unwritten rule in horror filmmaking that you don’t reveal your […]
Stan Lee’s The Virtue of Vera Valiant heading to the big screen
Over the past decade we’ve become very accustomed to seeing Stan Lee’s creations on the big screen, and we’ll soon be able to add another to the ever-expanding list, although this one is pretty far removed from Marvel superheroes. Deadline is reporting that Lee’s Pow! Entertainment is teaming up with China’s Tianying Media for an […]
