Tom Nightingale looks back on four years of Disney’s Star Wars… It’s been the equivalent of a whole US presidential term since Disney acquired Lucasfilm for a staggering $4.05 billion. “It’s now time for me to pass Star Wars on to a new generation of filmmakers” declared George Lucas as he traded the most iconic […]
Movie Review – Nocturnal Animals (2016)
Nocturnal Animals, 2016. Directed by Tom Ford. Starring Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Isla Fisher, Armie Hammer, and Laura Linney. SYNOPSIS: An art gallery owner is haunted by her ex-husband’s novel, a violent thriller she interprets as a veiled threat and a symbolic revenge tale. Watching Nocturnal Animals is an enthralling, horrifying […]
Exclusive Interview – Kevin James and Zulay Henao discuss True Memoirs of an International Assassin
Alex Moreland chats with Kevin James and Zulay Henao about True Memoirs of an International Assassin… So, I watched the movie earlier today, and I really enjoyed it, well done, it’s great. Kevin James: Great! That’s wonderful, thanks. Yeah, I thought you were both great. When I was watching it, I thought it’s not really […]
Movie Review – True Memoirs of an International Assassin (2016)
True Memoirs of an International Assassin, 2016. Directed by Jeff Wadlow. Starring Kevin James, Andy Garcia, Zulay Henao, Maurice Compte, Andrew Howard, Rob Riggle, Kelen Coleman, Leonard Earl Howze, Yul Vasquez and Kim Coates. SYNOPSIS: After a publisher changes a writer’s debut novel about a deadly assassin from fiction to nonfiction, the author finds himself […]
Irvine Welsh thinks T2 is a better movie than Trainspotting, teases small screen spinoff
Last week we got to see the first trailer for T2, Danny Boyle’s long-awaited sequel to his 1996 cult classic Trainspotting [watch it here], which reunites the original cast of Ewan McGregor (Renton), Jonny Lee Miller (Sick Boy), Ewen Bremner (Spud) and Robert Carlyle (Begbie). During an interview with NME, Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh has […]
Shawn Levy developing Sesame Street movie
During an interview with Screen Rant to promote the release of Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi drama Arrival, Shawn Levy has revealed that he’s developing a new big screen version of the long-running children’s TV show Sesame Street. “Sesame Street is at Warner Bros and we are right now working on a treatment for what I think […]
Fox already planning Deadpool 3 with X-Force included, main X-Men series to be “reconfigured”
20 Century Fox may have hit a stumbling block with development on Deadpool 2 following the departure of director Tim Miller, but it seems the studio is already turning its eye towards a third movie for the Merc with a Mouth. According to a report over at THR, Fox is looking towards a storyline to introduce the […]
Eddie Redmayne on his “catastrophically bad” audition for Kylo Ren in Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them star Eddie Redmayne has revealed to Uproxx that he could have appeared in another major franchise last year, were it not for his “catastrophically bad” audition for Kylo Ren in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. “They gave me like a Star Trek scene — or like something from Pride […]
52nd Chicago International Film Festival Review – Arrival (2016)
Arrival, 2016. Directed by Denis Villeneuve Starring Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg, Mark O’Brien and Tzi Ma SYNOPSIS: A linguist is recruited by the military to assist in translating alien communications. Director Denis Villeneuve (Sicario, Prisoners) continues his hot-streak of English language speaking films (and his hot-streak of film-making in general) with […]
Movie Review – The Darkest Dawn (2016)
The Darkest Dawn, 2016. Directed by Drew Casson. Starring Bethan Mary Leadley, Cherry Wallis, Stuart Ashen and Drew Casson. SYNOPSIS: The story of two sisters, as Britain descends into an alien apocalypse. In the often questionable annals of the found-footage genre, two films loom large: The Blair Witch Project and Cloverfield, both of which received […]