The Nice Guys, 2016. Directed by Shane Black. Starring Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling, Angourie Rice, Matt Bomer, Keith David, Gil Gerard, Kim Basinger, Beau Knapp and Margaret Qualley. SYNOPSIS: A private detective and an enforcer team up to infiltrate the porn industry in 1977 Los Angeles. Mismatched buddy movies have been a constant staple of […]
Second Opinion – The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)
The Girl with All the Gifts, 2016. Directed by Colm McCarthy. Starring Sennia Nanua, Gemma Arterton, Paddy Considine and Glenn Close. SYNOPSIS: A scientist and a teacher living in a dystopian future embark on a journey of survival with a special young girl named Melanie. To say that the zombie genre has become saturated with […]
UPDATE: John Carpenter has some harsh words for Rob Zombie and his Halloween remake
It’s been almost ten years since Rob Zombie directed his remake of the horror classic Halloween, and now franchise creator John Carpenter has finally shared his opinion on the reinvention – and it turns out he’s not overly impressed by the film, nor Zombie himself for that matter. Speaking at the New York Film Academy […]
Marvel launching Star Wars: Classified ongoing comic book series
With Star Wars: Darth Vader set to end next month, Marvel has announced that it is launching a new ongoing series in December entitled Star Wars: Classified. The new series will join the main Star Wars title and Star Wars: Poe Dameron as Marvel’s third ongoing Star Wars series, and will see Darth Vader writer […]
Universal bringing Joe Hill’s new horror novella Snapshot 1988 to the big screen
Universal Pictures beaten out 20th Century Fox to snap up the rights to author Joe Hill’s upcoming horror novella Snapshot 1988, and has tapped Mike Flanagan and Jeff Howard (Ouija 2: Origin of Evil) to pen the script for a movie adaptation from Akiva Goldsman’s Weed Road and Jason Blum’s Blumhouse Productions. The novella, which […]
Sam Neill reuniting with Taika Waititi (and Jeff Goldblum) on Thor: Ragnarok
Hunt for the Wilderpeople star Sam Neill has revealed in an interview with Shortlist that he’s reuniting with director Taika Waititi on next year’s Marvel threequel Thor: Ragnarok. “Oddly enough, I’m not really allowed to say this, and I can’t tell you what it is [but] I did a couple of days on Thor, just […]
Filming wraps on big screen adaptation of Stephen King’s It
Director Andy Muschietti (Mama) has announced that filming has wrapped on the big screen adaptation of Stephen King’s horror classic It, with the filmmaker taking to Instagram to share a photo of himself alongside the young stars who make up the Losers Club… Meanwhile, producer Barbara Muschietti also marked the occasion with her own image, opting […]
Movie Review – Phantasm: Ravager (2016)
Phantasm: Ravager, 2016. Directed by David Hartman. Starring Angus Scrimm, Reggie Bannister, A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Kathy Lester and Gloria Lynne Henry. SYNOPSIS: For 37 years, audiences have followed small town friends Reggie, Mike, and Jody in their quest to stop the evil, dimension-hopping schemes of The Tall Man (Angus Scrimm in his final […]
Rob Liefeld releases his Youngblood screenplay online
Rob Liefeld has released his screenplay for Youngblood, a planned adaptation of his creator-owned superhero comic book series, which is available as a free download via his website. “A short while back I penned this Youngblood screenplay, it was a story that I wanted to tell, it was a tale I’d been sitting on for […]
Movie Review – Bridget Jones’s Baby (2016)
Bridget Jones’s Baby, 2016. Directed by Sharon Maguire. Starring Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth, Patrick Dempsey, Sally Phillips, Gemma Jones, Jim Broadbent, Sarah Solemani and Emma Thompson. SYNOPSIS: Bridget’s focus on single life and her career is interrupted when she finds herself pregnant, but with one hitch … she can only be fifty percent sure of […]
