Southside With You, 2016. Directed by Richard Tanne. Starring Tika Sumpter and Parker Sawyers. SYNOPSIS: An invitation to a community meeting turns into a first date for Barack Obama and Michelle Robinson. Regardless of logic, there’s always a disconnect that exists between figures of influence and the idea that they were once regular people, with regular lives. Southside with […]
Ethan Hawke and Noomi Rapace join kidnap thriller Stockholm
Deadline has revealed that Ethan Hawke and Noomi Rapace have joined the cast of Stockholm, a new thriller which will reunite Hawke with his Born to Be Blue writer-director Robert Budreau. The film will tell the true story of the 1973 Stockholm bank heist and hostage crisis, which gave rise to the psychological phenomenon Stockholm […]
FrightFest Presents Review – Road Games (2015)
Road Games, 2015. Directed by Abner Pastoll. Starring Andrew Simpson, Joséphine de La Baume, Frédéric Pierrot, Barbara Crampton and Edward Hogg. SYNOPSIS: Amidst reports of a serial killer riding the roads, a couple of hitchhikers in rural France accept a lift from a strange man. A quick look at the title and the synopsis of […]
Movie Review – The Greasy Strangler (2016)
The Greasy Strangler, 2016. Directed by Jim Hosking. Starring Michael St. Michaels, Sky Elobar and Elizabeth De Razzo. SYNOPSIS: Ronnie runs a Disco walking tour with his son, Brayden. When a sexy woman takes the tour, it begins a competition between father and son for her love. It also signals the arrival of an oily […]
Movie Review – Demolition (2016)
Demolition, 2016. Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Naomi Watts, Chris Cooper, Judah Lewis, Polly Draper, Debra Monk, Heather Lind and C.J. Wilson. SYNOPSIS A successful investment banker writes a series of letters to a customer complaints representative following the death of his wife. Julia Mitchell (Heather Lind), in the driving seat, is talking […]
Amazon orders The Departed TV series
As Amazon continues to build its network of original programming, Variety is reporting it has just acquired a new series from Warner Bros. TV and Plan B based off Martin Scorsese’s The Departed, which in turn was a Western remake of Andrew Lau and Alan Mak’s 2002 Hong Kong thriller Internal Affairs. Warner Bros. TV […]
Movie Review – Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman’s The Fantastic Four (2015)
Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman’s The Fantastic Four, 2015. Directed by Marty Langford. Starring Roger Corman, Alex Hyde-White, Joseph Culp and Oley Sassone. SYNOPSIS: In 1994, Roger Corman produced a movie adaptation of Marvel’s first ever comic-book, The Fantastic Four, a low budget picture destined never to be released. This is its fascinating story… […]
Rupert Grint and Dougray Scott to star in Snatch TV series
Back in April it was announced that Crackle has placed an order for a TV adaptation of Guy Ritchie’s 2000 crime caper Snatch, and now Deadline is reporting that former Harry Potter star Rupert Grint has signed on to star, as well as executing producing. He will be joined in the cast by Dougray Scott […]
Movie Review – Brotherhood (2016)
Brotherhood, 2016. Written and Directed by Noel Clarke. Starring Noel Clarke, Steven Cree, Olivia Chenery, Tonia Sotiropoulou, Nick Nevern, Adjoa Andoh, Arnold Oceng, Fredi ‘Kruga’ Nwaka and Ashley Thomas. SYNOPSIS: The final instalment in Noel Clarke’s West London crime trilogy sees Sam Peel reckon with his past as attacks on his family threaten his future. […]
Billy Howle to star opposite Saoirse Ronan in On Chesil Beach
Number 9 Films has announced that Billy Howle (The Sense of an Ending, The Seagull) who will play the lead role of Edward Mayhew opposite Saoirse Ronan’s (Brooklyn, Atonement) Florence Ponting in On Chesil Beach. “I’m very excited about working with Billy on this brilliantly written role,” said director Dominic Cooke (The Hollow Crown). “He […]
