Game of Thrones and Star Wars star Gwendoline Christie has signed to to star in 20th Century Fox’s Darkest Minds, which is being directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson (Kung Fu Panda) and is based upon Alexandra Bracken’s YA book trilogy. Darkest Minds is set in a a post-apocalyptic America where a pandemic has killed most […]
Blu-ray Review – RoboCop 2: Collector’s Edition (1990)
RoboCop 2: Collector’s Edition, 1990. Directed by Irvin Kershner. Starring Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Daniel O’Herlihy, Tom Noonan, Belinda Bauer, and Gabriel Damon. SYNOPSIS: Shout! Factory continues its series of minor classics from the 70s through 90s with the release of Collector’s Editions of RoboCop 2. In the sequel to Paul Verhoeven’s hit 1987 film, […]
Life: One Dread-Inducing Reason to Watch the Sci-Fi Horror Movie
Samuel Brace on the new sci-fi horror Life… Space is awesome. And no, that’s not THE reason suggested in the title of this piece, but it was certainly MY reason for initially buying a ticket. But with that being said, it is a statement that should ease us nicely into this sincere endorsement of the […]
Karen Gillan on pitching an all-female Marvel movie to Kevin Feige
Last month, Marvel Studios producer Craig Kyle took to social media to share a photo of Marvel’s female stars Zoe Saldana (Gamora), Tessa Thompson (Valkyrie), Brie Larson (Captain Marvel), Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow), Danai Gurira (Okoye), Karen Gillan (Nebula), Evangeline Lilly (Wasp) and Pom Klementieff (Mantis), taken during Marvel’s 10 Year Anniversary photo shoot for Vanity […]
The Revenant screenwriter to pen Quentin Tarantino’s Star Trek movie
Earlier this month came the rather surprising news that Quentin Tarantino had pitched a Star Trek movie to Paramount Pictures and producer J.J. Abrams, with the studio immediately decided to press ahead with development. Well, according to Deadline, the project now has a screenwriter in Mark L. Smith, whose credits include The Revenant, along with […]
Second Opinion – Life (2017)
Life, 2017. Directed by Daniel Espinosa. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Ryan Reynolds, Rebecca Ferguson, Hiroyuki Sanada, Olga Dihovichnaya, and Ariyon Bakare. SYNOPSIS: A team of scientists aboard the International Space Station whose mission of discovery turns to one of primal fear when they find a rapidly evolving life form that caused extinction on Mars, and now […]
Quentin Tarantino’s Star Trek will be R-rated, writer’s room revealed
A few days ago it was revealed that Quentin Tarantino had pitched an idea for a Star Trek film to J.J. Abrams, the director of the first two rebooted films and producer on Star Trek Beyond. Abrams and Paramount were apparently so taken with the idea that they began putting together a writer’s room for the film’s script. […]
Quentin Tarantino has pitched J.J. Abrams a Star Trek movie, may direct
Back in September, during preparation for his upcoming Manson Family film #9, Quentin Tarantino revealed that he had an idea for a Star Trek movie, and that it “would be worth having a meeting about”. Well, it seems he has had a meeting about it, with Deadline revealing that Tarantino has shared his idea with […]
Machine Gun Kelly and David Dastmalchian join Sandra Bullock in post-apocalyptic thriller Bird Box
Machine Gun Kelly (a.k.a. Colson Baker) and David Dastmalchian (Ant-Man) have become the latest names to join the cast of Netflix’s upcoming post-apocalyptic sci-fi thriller feature Bird Box. The film is being directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Susanne Bier (In a Better World) from a script by Eric Heisserer (Arrival), and sees Sandra Bullock (Gravity) leading […]
Hilary Swank starring in sci-fi thriller I Am Mother
According to Variety, Oscar winner Hilary Swank has signed on to star in the sci-fi thriller I Am Mother, which is being directed by Grant Sputore as his feature debut, from Michael Lloyd Green’s 2016 Black List script. The film stars Clara Rugaard as “the first of a new generation of humans raised by ‘Mother’ […]
