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 […]
Movie Review – Imperium (2016)
Imperium, 2016. Directed by Daniel Ragussis. Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Toni Collette, Tracy Letts, Burn Gorman, Sam Trammell, Nestor Carbonell, Chris Sullivan, Seth Numrich and Adam Meier. SYNOPSIS: Idealistic FBI agent Nate Foster goes undercover to take down a radical white supremacy terrorist group. The up-and-coming analyst must confront the challenge of sticking to a new […]
Interview: Director Daniel Ragussis speaks on the genesis of Imperium and the experiences of emerging as a feature length director
Joshua Gill chats with Imperium director Daniel Ragussis… In the lead up to Daniel Radcliffe’s new film Imperium, an exciting thriller that looks at the true story of an FBI informant that infiltrates a neo-nazi terrorist cell, director Daniel Ragussis speaks to staff writer Joshua Gill about the degree to which he researched the white […]
Parks and Recreation actor Jim O’Heir joins Steven Soderbergh’s Logan Lucky
Actor Jim O’Heir took to social media on Sunday to announce that he will soon be shipping out to Atlanta, Georgia to work on Steven Soderbergh’s directorial return, Logan Lucky. While he didn’t offer up any clues as to who he’ll be playing in the 2017 heist film, he did mention that he’ll be needed “for a […]
