With the first full trailer for D.J. Caruso’s xXx: The Return of Xander Cage set to arrive later this week, Vin Diesel has taken to social media to reveal a brief teaser for the upcoming action threequel; check it out here… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK62YMICs6A UPDATE: And here’s a second teaser… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx2qIEBtA2U The third explosive chapter of the blockbuster franchise that […]
Second Opinion – Born to Be Blue (2015)
Born to Be Blue, 2015. Directed by Robert Budreau. Starring Ethan Hawke, Carmen Ejogo, Callum Keith Rennie and Stephen McHattie. SYNOPSIS: A liberal interpretation of a key period in Chet Baker’s life after he’s beaten within an inch of his life, forcing him to re-learn his embouchure while struggling to control his addiction to heroin. There’s […]
Emily Carmichael and Kira Snyder writing Pacific Rim 2
Back in May of this year it was reported that Derek Connolly (Jurassic World) had been brought in by Legendary to pen the screenplay for Pacific Rim: Maelstrom, the follow-up to Guillermo del Toro’s 2013 sci-fi action blockbuster, which is set to explode into cinemas in February 2018. Well, in an interview over at Ars […]
Alexandre Desplat to score Luc Besson’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Having been replaced on Rogue One: A Star Wars Story by Michael Giacchino due to scheduling conflicts, Alexandre Desplat has now lined up his next project, with Luc Besson taking to Twitter to reveal that Desplat will be scoring his upcoming sci-fi epic Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets… Alexandre Desplat had to […]
Movie Review – The Magnificent Seven (2016)
The Magnificent Seven, 2016. Directed by Antoine Fuqua. Starring Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D’Onofrio, Byung-hun Lee, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Martin Sensmeier, Peter Sarsgaard, Luke Grimes and Haley Bennett. SYNOPSIS: Seven gun men in the old west gradually come together to help a poor village against savage thieves. Boasting an all-star cast, Antoine […]
Movies to Watch For in 2016 Part II
Samuel Brace casts his eye over the second half of 2016 with four movies to look out for… Here we are guys. We are nearly halfway through 2016, a year that has been pretty tepid on the cinematic front. We’ve had some absolute stinkers, some surprising hits and a few excellent hangovers from last year’s […]
FrightFest Presents Review – Curtain (2015)
Curtain, 2015. Directed by Jaron Henrie-McCrea. Starring Danni Smith, Tim Lueke, Rick Zahn and Martin Monahan. SYNOPSIS: A young woman buys an apartment and discovers a portal to another dimension that likes eating shower curtains. No, really… Otherwise known as The Gateway, Curtain is an odd little movie that clearly has some big ideas lurking […]
Adam Driver and Rooney Mara to star in Leos Carax’s Annette
In news coming out of the American Film Market, Adam Driver (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) and Rooney Mara (Carol) are to star in Annette, the English-language debut of Holy Motors director Leos Carax, which also has Rihanna (Home) set to feature in a minor role According to Variety, Annette “depicts the rise and fall […]
Michael Palin and Adam Driver reportedly set for Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
Back in April it was announced that Terry Gilliam is set to take another crack at The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, with filming expected to get underway this September. Well, according to FlickReel, Gilliam has now enlisted Michael Palin for the role of Don Quixote, while Star Wars: The Force Awakens star Adam Driver could […]
The Jim Henson Company bringing Terry Pratchett’s The Wee Free Men to the big screen
The Jim Henson Company is set to adapt Terry Pratchett’s 2003 Discworld novel The Wee Free Men, with Pratchett’s daughter Rhianna set to pen the script for a big screen adaptation. Here’s the official description from the announcement: THE WEE FREE MEN, is the first in a series of Discworld novels starring the young witch […]
