Although we’re yet to get any kind of official confirmation that Domino will appear in Deadpool 2, Collider is reporting that casting is underway for the role, with ten actresses said to have tested with director Tim Miller and the film’s producers. According to the site, the actresses under consideration include Lizzy Caplan (Masters of […]
Movie Review – Fist 2 Fist 2: Weapon of Choice (2014)
Fist 2 Fist 2: Weapon of Choice, 2014. Directed by Jino Kang and Tony Urgo. Starring Jino Kang, Douglas Olsson, Katherine Celio, Artem Mishin and Kelly Lou Dennis. SYNOPSIS: Retired Assassin, Jack Lee (Jino Kang), has long since disappeared from the criminal world to peacefully raise his dead brother’s daughter, Jamie (Kelly Lou Dennis) but […]
Remember when Captain Planet did an episode on AIDS?
Following the announcement of a new live-action film produced by Leonardo DiCaprio and their discussion on the Flickering Myth Podcast, Luke Owen looks back at the Captain Planet and the Planeteers episode “Formula for Hate”… In the late 1980s and early 1990s, no subject was perhaps more taboo than HIV and AIDS. Though many had died previously, […]
Movie Review – Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016)
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, 2016. Directed by Edward Zwick. Starring Tom Cruise, Cobie Smulders, Aldis Hodge, Danika Yarosh, Patrick Heusinger, Holt McCallany, Robert Catrini and Madalyn Horcher. SYNOPSIS: Jack Reacher goes on the run to clear his name, and in the process discovers a secret from his past. The first Jack Reacher film […]
Movie Review – Stray (2016)
Stray, 2016. Directed by Nena Eskridge Starring Gabrielle Stone, Andrew Sensenig, Sean Patrick Folster and Samantha Fairfield Walsh. SYNOPSIS: Jennifer, a troubled young woman seemingly on the run, arrives in a sleepy small town where she begins to take increasingly dubious methods in an attempt to find love and gain the family that she so […]
Second Opinion – Storks (2016)
Storks, 2016. Directed by Nicholas Stoller and Doug Sweetland. Featuring the voice talents of Andy Samberg, Katie Crown, Kelsey Grammer, Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele, Anton Starkman, Jennifer Aniston, Ty Burrell, Stephen Kramer Glickman, Danny Trejo, Awkwafina, Ike Barinholtz, Jorma Taccone, Chris Smith. SYNOPSIS: Storks deliver babies — or at least they used to. Now, they deliver packages […]
Paramount and Appian Way acquire Truevine as a Leonardo DiCaprio vehicle
Fresh from snapping up the rights to Captain Planet, Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way is in talks to acquire Beth Macy’s book Truevine: Two Brothers, A Kidnapping, And A Mother’s Quest; A True Story of The Jim Crow South, which it will produce with Paramount Pictures as a star vehicle for DiCaprio. Truevine takes place in […]
Warner Bros. developing Willy Wonka prequel movie
Variety is reporting that Warner Bros. has secured the rights to Willy Wonka from the estate of Roald Dahl, and has tapped Harry Potter producer David Heyman to develop a new movie, which is being scripted by Simon Rich (The Secret Life of Pets). According to the site, rather than an adaptation of Dahl’s two Wonka […]
Tom Hiddleston joins Aardman’s Early Man
Aardman Animation and StudioCanal have announced that Tom Hiddleston has signed on to the cast of Nick Park’s prehistoric comedy adventure Early Man, where he is set to voice the villain, he ridiculously pompous Lord Nooth, governor of the Bronze Age town – a money-loving tyrant and rival to the film’s Stone Age hero, Dug […]
October Horrors Day 20 – Army of Darkness (1992)
Army of Darkness, 1992. Directed by Sam Raimi Starring Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz, Marcus Gilbert and Ian Abercrombe. SYNOPSIS: Following on from the events of Evil Dead II (1987) which saw Ash vanquish the demonic force before being sucked through a time portal to the Dark Ages, we now find our wise-cracking hero having to seek […]