Zach McGowan (Black Sails, The 100) has been cast in the lead role in the World War II drama Ni‘ihau, which marks the feature directorial debut of Gabriel Robertson. Deadline reports that the film will tell the true story of Shigenori Nishikaichi, an Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service pilot who crash-landed his Zero on the eponymous Hawaiian island […]
Movie Review – Chuck (2017)
Chuck, 2017. Directed by Phillipe Falardeau. Starring Liev Schreiber, Elisabeth Moss, Ron Perlman, Jim Gaffigan, Morgan Spector, Pooch Hall, Zina Wilde, Sadie Sink, and Naomi Watts. SYNOPSIS: A drama inspired by the life of heavyweight boxer Chuck Wepner. Are strong acting and unrecognizable familiar faces enough to push a film over the hump from bad […]
Dave Bautista thinks Marvel could regain full rights to Spider-Man
It came as quite the surprise when it was first announced that Marvel and Sony had reached a deal to bring Spider-Man into the Marvel Cinematic Universe for Captain America: Civil War, and now we’re just a couple of months away before the release of the new web-slinger’s first solo outing in Spider-Man: Homecoming. In […]
Movie Review – Mindhorn (2016)
Mindhorn, 2016. Directed by Sean Foley. Starring Julian Barrett, Essie Davis, Russell Tovey, Andrea Riseborough, Jessica Barden, Harriet Walter, Kenneth Branagh, and Steve Coogan. SYNOPSIS: A has-been actor best known for playing the title character in the 1980s detective series “Mindhorn” must work with the police when a serial killer says that he will only […]
Josh Gad, Chloe Grace Moretz and Jack O’Connell set for Party of the Century
Get ready for the Party of the Century. Josh Gad, Chloe Grace Moretz and Jack O’Connell will be starring in the film that is set to be directed by Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman. The directing pair also wrote the script and will shoot this fall in New York City. Party of the Century is said […]
Psych returning with TV movie
Cult comedy-drama Psych is set for a return to the small screen, with series creator Steve Franks reuniting with James Roday (Shawn Spencer) and Dule Hill (Burton ‘Gus’ Guster) for a two-hour TV special set to air on USA Network later this year. The special – which will also see the return of Timothy Odmundson […]
Movie Review – Snatched (2017)
Snatched, 2017. Directed by Jonathan Levine. Starring Amy Schumer, Goldie Hawn, Joan Cusack, Ike Barinholtz, Wanda Sykes, and Christopher Meloni. SYNOPSIS: When her boyfriend dumps her before their exotic vacation, a young woman persuades her ultra-cautious mother to travel with her to paradise, with unexpected results. Around halfway through Snatched (an exotic-vacation-gone-wrong comedy from Jonathan […]
Ian McShane discusses his role as Professor Broom in Hellboy reboot
With the Hellboy reboot now in post-production ahead of its release next January, actor Ian McShane – who is set to take on the role of Professor Broom, head of the B.P.R.D. and Hellboy’s adoptive father – has been chatting to Fandom about the movie, and his character’s relationship with David Harbour’s titular hero. “You […]
Hellboy gets January 2019 release date
Lionsgate has announced that it has set a January 11th 2019 release date for Hellboy (formerly titled Hellboy: Rise of the Blood Queen), its upcoming big screen reboot of the Dark Horse comic book series. That will put the film in competition with the sci-fi Ad Astra, and the recently announced comedy What Men Want. […]
Ed Skrein exits Hellboy reboot over whitewashing controversy
Last week it was announced that Ed Skrein had joined the cast of the Hellboy reboot in the role of Major Ben Daimio, a member of the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense, and an Asian character. As one might expect, Skrein’s casting caused some controversy over the whitewashing of the character, and the actor […]
