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 […]
Ben Hardy will reportedly play Roger Taylor in Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody
After several years in development, it looks like the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody is finally starting to come together. In November of last year, it was announced that Bryan Singer would be directing the project, with Mr. Robot star Rami Malek signing on to play the band’s iconic frontman Freddie Mercury. Now, according to The […]
Watch Neill Blomkamp’s new sci-fi short Firebase
Filmmaker Neill Blomkamp has released the second sci-fi short from his new production company Oats Studios, entitled Firebase. Set during the Vietnam war, Firebase follows American soldier “Hines” through an ever deepening web of science fiction madness. The fabric of space-time literally beginning to bend around him. Watch the short below, and click here to […]
Boondock Saints director Troy Duffy to helm The Blood Spoon Council
The Boondock Saints director Troy Duffy has signed on to helm the thriller The Blood Spoon Council, his first film since 2009’s The Bookdock Saints II: All Saints Day. The film will follow a vigilante group known as The Blood Spoon Council, who hunt down and execute serial killers. The FBI commissions a young, rogue profiler […]
Spider-Man: Homecoming Civil War vlogs, Vulture featurette and new images
With less than a week to go until the hotly-anticipated release of Spider-Man: Homecoming, a new video has been released which compiles a very excitable Peter Parker’s personal vlogs from during and after his stint with the Avengers in Captain America: Civil War. You can check it out below, along with a featurette which focuses on […]
James Cameron on why the time is right for a new Terminator movie
Yesterday we brought you some comments from James Cameron about his four new Avatar movies, but of course they aren’t the only upcoming sequels that the filmmaker has a hand in, as he is set to produce a new Terminator movie – a direct sequel to Terminator 2: Judgment Day – which is being directed […]
Why 1980s Science Fiction Is Huge Right Now
Neil Calloway looks at why dystopias from thirty years ago are the biggest influence on Hollywood… With a new Blade Runner movie opening to rave reviews, a new (and hopefully decent) Terminator film on the way, it looks like 80s science fiction is the way to go if you want to get a movie made […]
Channing Tatum, Gina Rodriguez and Zendaya join Smallfoot
Channing Tatum (Hail, Caesar!), Gina Rodriguez (Jane the Virgin) and Zendaya (Spider-Man: Homecoming) have signed on to lend their voices to the upcoming Warner Bros. animated feature Smallfoot. Marking the directorial debut of animator Ryan O’Loughlin, Smallfoot “aims to turn the Yeti/Sasquatch lore 180 degrees, focusing on a Yeti who believes that humans exist, despite her […]
The Rise of the Stupid Smart Character, or Why Helmets Matter
Henry Bevan on the rise of the stupid smart character… If you’ve been browsing this website over the last couple of days you will have noticed there has been a lot of Alien: Covenant content. We’ve published not one, not two but three reviews. We’ve written letters to David Fincher, we’ve talked about Ridley Scott, […]
Second Opinion – Alien: Covenant (2017)
Alien: Covenant, 2017. Directed by Ridley Scott. Starring Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride, Demián Bichir, Carmen Ejogo, Jussie Smollett, Callie Hernandez, Amy Seimetz, Noomi Rapace, Guy Pearce, and James Franco. SYNOPSIS: The crew of a colony ship, bound for a remote planet, discover an uncharted paradise with a threat beyond their imagination, and […]
