Neil Calloway on why the second films in Star Wars trilogies are the best…Unless you’ve been hiding out on Dagobah or in the Outer Rim Territories, you’ll be aware that Star Wars: The Last Jedi is released this week. It’s a Star Wars movie, so has a lot to live up to, but it’s also […]
Movie Review – Playground (2016)
Playground, 2016.Written and Directed by Bartosz M. Kowalski. Starring Nicolas Przygoda, Michalina Swistun and Przemyslaw Balinski.SYNOPSIS:A provincial town in Poland. The final day of school. A seemingly normal day in life of three ordinary elementary school students. This day however eventually culminates in shocking and terrifying events.Does a movie need to be enjoyable or fun? Do you seek […]
J.J. Abrams had no intention of returning to Star Wars after The Force Awakens
Having relaunched the Star Wars franchise in 2015 with Star Wars: The Force Awakens, director J.J. Abrams is now gearing up for a return to the galaxy far, far away to close out the Sequel Trilogy with Star Wars: Episode IX, having joined the project as a replacement for Colin Trevorrow. And, speaking to Rolling […]
Movie Review – Once Upon a Time at Christmas (2017)
Once Upon a Time at Christmas, 2017.Directed by Paul Tanter. Starring Simon Phillips, Sayla de Goede, Laurel Brady, Barry Kennedy, Jeff Ellenberger, Brook Fletcher, and Susannah Mackay.SYNOPSIS:A small town is plagued by serial killers dressed as Santa and Mrs Claus, who appear to be escalating their murderous rampage every day.Sometimes a horror movie twist is […]
As The Last Jedi looms, Coco wins the box office and The Disaster Artist excels
Joining an illustrious list of movies that have topped the US box-office for three straight weekends in 2017 (Split, The Fate of the Furious, and The Hitman’s Bodyguard), Disney-Pixar’s Coco managed one final week at the summit, before a certain little independent movie about disgruntled family members waving around glowsticks attempts to break records.That movie is […]
The scene that could have saved Batman v Superman
Anghus Houvouras on the scene that could have saved Batman v Superman…Ok. Hyperbolic title. Engineered to elicit a reaction. There are those of us who believe Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice wasn’t a woefully mangled train wreck (the Ultimate Edition anyway). I’m still a fan of the Snyder’s visually engaging strange narratives. I think Man […]
Lifetime’s Corey Haim and Corey Feldman biopic A Tale of Two Coreys gets a trailer
Ahead of its premiere on Lifetime next month, a trailer has arrived online for A Tale of Two Coreys, the upcoming TV movie which is based on the lives of 1980’s teen stars Corey Feldman and Corey Haim. The film stars Elijah Marcano and Scott Bosely as Feldman, and Justin Ellings and Casey Leach as Haim, […]
The New Mutants, X-Men: Dark Phoenix and Gambit set for IMAX releases
2018 is going to be a big year for 20th Century Fox’s X-Men franchise, with the studio set to release the spinoffs The New Mutants and Deadpool 2, along with the latest chapter in the main series, X-Men: Dark Phoenix, as well as finally kicking off production on the long-gestating Gambit solo movie.Fox and IMAX […]
Matt Shakman direct The Phantom Tollbooth
Last August it was announced that TriStar Pictures was developing an adaptation of the classic children’s book The Phantom Tollbooth, and now Deadline is reporting that the studio has enlisted Matt Shakman (Game of Thrones, Fargo) to direct the project. Based on the 1961 book by writer Norton Juster and illustrator Jules Feiffer, The Phantom […]
Rod Lurie to direct Westboro Baptist Church film Hate (A Love Story)
According to Variety, Branded Pictures Entertainment has tapped Rod Lurie (The Contender, The Last Castle, Straw Dogs) to direct Hate (A Love Story), which will tell the true story of Al Snyder, a man who sued the Westboro Baptist Church after members of the hate group protested the funeral of his son, a marine killed […]
