Vinyl actress Annie Parisse is set to make a return to HBO for the as-yet-untitled film about Joe Paterno and the Penn State sexual abuse scandal. Directed by Barry Levinson, the film sees legendary football coach Joe Paterno (Al Pacino), who is considered to be the most successful coach in college football history, embroiled in Penn State’s Jerry Sandusky […]
Watch Neill Blomkamp’s latest short Zygote starring Dakota Fanning
Neill Blomkamp has released the latest short from his Oats Studios productions; entitled Zygote, the short stars Dakota Fanning and Jose Pablo Cantillo as two survivors stranged in an Arctic mine, who are forced to fight for their lives, evading and hiding from a new kind of terror. If you haven’t already, be sure to check out […]
Martin Scorsese casts Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel and Bobby Cannavale in The Irishman
Martin Scorsese has cast some names that are quite familiar to fans of his movies in his upcoming film The Irishman for Netflix, with Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel and Bobby Cannavale set to join Robert De Niro and Al Pacino (though the latter’s deal is still being finalized). It was reported a couple months ago that Pesci was being […]
Robert Downey Jr. shares Avengers: Infinity War set photo with Stan Lee, Benedict Cumberbatch and Tom Holland
Robert Downey Jr. has taken to Instagram to share a new image from the set of Avengers: Infinity War, which sees him joined by directors Joe and Anthony Russo, co-stars Benedict Cumberbatch (Doctor Strange) and Tom Holland (Spider-Man), and Marvel legend Stan Lee! Take a look here… https://www.instagram.com/p/BWabSRYDfsI/ SEE ALSO: Avengers: Infinity War is […]
Second Opinion – War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
War for the Planet of the Apes, 2017. Directed by Matt Reeves. Starring Andy Serkis, Woody Harrelson, Steve Zahn, Amiah Miller, Judy Greer, Karin Konoval, Terry Notary, Michael Adamthwaite, Gabriel Chavarria, Max Lloyd-Jones, Sara Canning, Aleks Paunovic, and Chad Rook. SYNOPSIS: After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his […]
Directorial Vision vs Crowd Pleasing
Tom Jolliffe on directorial vision vs crowd pleasing… We’ve all done it in our lives. The crowd leans a certain way and we adhere to that. Maybe it was in school. Oasis vs Blur (yes, I’m old). The consensus is Oasis, so you put Oasis in your tape deck to please everyone. Secretly though you’re […]
Clint Eastwood has cast real life U.S. heroes for his next film
Legendary actor and filmmaker Clint Eastwood has hired real life American heroes for his next motion picture. Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos, and Spencer Stone have been hired to play themselves in Eastwood’s next film entitled The 15:17 to Paris. The film will tell the true story of three U.S. men who helped to subdue a […]
Movie Review – The Beguiled (2017)
The Beguiled, 2017. Directed by Sofia Coppola Starring Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning, Colin Farrell and Angourie Rice. SYNOPSIS: During the American Civil War, a girl from a Confederate boarding school discovers a wounded Union soldier. She takes him back to the school, where his wounds are looked after by the headmistress, her assistant […]
Neill Blomkamp’s Alien 5 didn’t always feature Ellen Ripley, but Sigourney Weaver changed his mind
It looks like Neill Blomkamp’s ill-fated Alien 5 didn’t always feature series mainstay Ellen Ripley. In a recent interview with Funhaus, the director reveals that an encounter with Sigourney Weaver herself changed his mind completely… “I met Sigourney on Chappie and I had a different idea for an Alien film I wanted to make. So […]
Jorge Lendeborg Jr. cast in Bumblebee Transformers spin-off
Paramount has announced another cast addition to Bumblebee, the spin-off from Michael Bay’s Transformers franchise focused on the Autobot scout. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jorge Lendeborg Jr. will join Pitch Perfect 2‘s Hailee Steinfeld in the film. Bumblebee will be a prequel to the main Transformers series and is the first of what Paramount hopes will be a long line […]
