Christopher Nolan’s World War II epic Dunkirk has become the acclaimed filmmaker’s most successful release of all-time at the UK box office, where it has grossed £56.4 million and counting.Dunkirk shot to the top of the box office in July, with the U.K. scoring the biggest Warner Bros. opening of 2017. It went on to […]
The Week in Spandex – NYCC roundup, Justice League, Thor: Ragnarok, The Punisher, Runaways, Gambit, Constantine, Spawn and more
Due to New York Comic Con, birthdays and anniversaries, it’s an abridged version of The Week in Spandex this week. Normal service will be resumed this coming Saturday…The big news from the weekend was of course the release of the latest trailer for Warner Bros.’ upcoming blockbuster Justice League, while on the DC front we […]
61st BFI London Film Festival Review – Last Flag Flying (2017)
Last Flag Flying, 2017.Directed by Richard Linklater. Starring Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston, Laurence Fishburne and J. Quinton Johnson.SYNOPSIS:Thirty years after they served together in Vietnam, a former Navy Corpsman Larry “Doc” Shepherd re-unites with his old buddies, former Marines Sal Nealon and Reverend Richard Mueller, to bury his son, a young Marine killed in the […]
October Horrors 2017 Day 9 – The Exorcist (1973)
The Exorcist, 1973.Directed by William Friedkin. Starring Linda Blair, Ellen Burstyn, Max Von Sydow, Lee J Cobb, and Jason MillerSYNOPSIS:When 12-year-old Regan MacNeil becomes possessed by a demonic entity, two priests are called in to perform an exorcism to hopefully banish the demon and save the young girl before it’s too late.Earlier this year, horror […]
61st London Film Festival Review – Call Me By Your Name (2017)
Call Me By Your Name, 2017.Directed by Luca Guadagnino. Starring Armie Hammer, Timothee Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg and Esther Garrel.SYNOPSIS:An American professor and his family are spending the summer at their Italian villa. His teenage son is captivated by the graduate student who arrives to work for his father. It’s a fascination that becomes mutual and […]
DVD Review – Freehold (2017)
Freehold, 2017.Directed by Dom Bridges. Starring Javier Botet, Mim Shaikh, Mandeep Dhillon, Kola Bokinni, and Michael McKell.SYNOPSIS:An oily, amoral estate agent is preyed upon by one of his victims, who quietly moves into his flat and, unseen, begins a deliciously malicious campaign of revengeHave you ever been alone in your home and felt like someone […]
Top Gun: Maverick director shoots down rumor that film’s plot involves drones, Jerry Bruckheimer talks sequel pressure
Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski recently addressed the rumor circulating that the film involves the rise of drone technology. Speaking to CinemaBlend, the director swiftly shoots down the idea:“Personally, I would never want to see a movie about drones. For me Top Gun has always been not about fighter planes. It’s been about fighter […]
DVD Review – Cage Dive (2017)
Cage Dive, 2017.Directed by Gerald Rascionato. Starring Joel Hogan, Josh Potthoff, Megan Peta Hill, Pete Valley, Mark Fell, and Christopher Callen.SYNOPSIS:Three friends go shark cage diving in a bid to get on a TV reality show, only for things to go very wrong.In some territories Cage Dive comes with the prefix of Open Water 3 […]
61st BFI London Film Festival Review – Lucky (2017)
Lucky, 2017.Directed by John Carroll Lynch Starring Harry Dean Stanton, David Lynch, Barry Shabaka Henley, Beth Grant, and Tom Skerritt.SYNOPSIS:The spiritual journey of a ninety-year-old atheist.Late, lamented Hollywood legend Harry Dean Stanton had the sort of face the camera practically keeled over for. Less a visage than an ordnance survey map of Hollywood history, Dean Stanton’s […]
Blu-ray Review – The Howling (1981)
The Howling, 1981.Directed by Joe Dante. Starring Dee Wallace, Christopher Stone, Patrick Macnee, Robert Picardo, Dick Miller, John Carradine, Elisabeth Brooks, Dennis Dugan, Belinda Belaski, and Kevin McCarthy.SYNOPSIS:A female reporter is attacked by a notorious murderer so to get over her trauma she is sent to The Colony for relaxation. And then her problems really […]
