The cast of Robert Rodriguez and James Cameron’s Alita: Battle Angel continues to come together, with THR reporting that upcoming Spider-Man: Homecoming star Jorge Lendeborg Jr. has joined the manga adaptation. Rosa Salazar (Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials) is leading the cast as Alita, an amnesiac cyborg who puts her martial arts skills to use […]
Movie Review – Girls Lost (2015)
Girls Lost, 2015. Directed by Alexandra-Therese Keining. Starring Tuva Jagell, Emrik Ohlander, Louise Nyvall and Alexander Gustavsson,Wilma Homen and Vilgot Ostwald Vesterlund. SYNOPSIS: Kim, Bella and Momo, three bullied teenage girls, are going through the throes of finding themselves. Surrounded by a dark world of teenage violence, marginalization and sexual confusion, the girls have only […]
60th BFI London Film Festival Review – American Honey (2016)
American Honey, 2016 Directed by Andrea Arnold Starring Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf, Riley Keough. SYNOPSIS: Disaffected, blue-collar American teen Star (Sasha Lane), a self-described ‘American Honey’, leaves her unhappy home life behind to hit the road with a gang of misfit stragglers who travel across the USA scamming people out of their money. On the way […]
60th BFI London Film Festival Review – Queen Of Katwe (2016)
Queen Of Katwe, 2016. Directed by Mira Nair. Starring David Oyelowo, Lupita Nyong’o, Madina Nalwanga, Taryn Kyaze and Ethan Nazario Lubega. SYNOPSIS: Phiona (Madina Nalwanga) lives with her mother, brothers and sister in the impoverished township of Katwe in Uganda, selling vegetables to earn money instead of going to school. But she’s intrigued by a chess […]
Movie Review – War on Everyone (2016)
War on Everyone, 2016. Directed by John Michael McDonagh. Starring Michael Pena, Alexander Skarsgard, Theo James, Tessa Thompson, Stephanie Sigman, Caleb Landry Jones, Malcolm Barrett, David Wilmot and Paul Reiser. SYNOPSIS: Two corrupt cops in New Mexico set out to blackmail and frame every criminal unfortunate enough to cross their path. Things take a sinister […]
October Horrors Day 9 – Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Dawn of the Dead, 1978 Directed by George A. Romero Starring Ken Foree, David Emege, Scott Reigner and Gaylen Ross SYNOPSIS: TV news chopper pilot Stephen, his girlfriend Francine and SWAT team members Peter and Roger, attempt to find a place to hole up in the midst of a zombie apocalypse spiralling ever more out of […]
Finding Dory hits $1 billion at the global box office
Disney-Pixar’s Finding Dory has crossed the $1 billion mark at the global box office this weekend, with the hit sequel to 2003’s Finding Nemo hitting $1.001 billion around the globe. Dory is the year’s highest-grossing domestic release with $485 million, and the third biggest movie of the year worldwide after fellow Disney releases Captain America: […]
60th BFI London Film Festival 2016 Review – The Handmaiden (2016)
The Handmaiden, 2016 Directed by Park Chan-wook Starring Min-hee Kim, Kim Tae-ri, Jung-woo Ha, Jin-woong Jo SYNOPSIS: During the Japanese occupation of Korea, young con-woman Sook-Hee is hired to be a wealthy heiress’s handmaiden at an isolated countryside estate. Joining forces with a fellow thief, she plans to swindle the heiress out of her fortune, […]
Do We Need More Diversity In Films?
This week, Neil Calloway questions whether casting in movies need to be more diverse… Tim Burton has been defending Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and its apparent lack of diversity. Personally, I can’t believe people are complaining about a lack of diversity in a Tim Burton film; he’s been making the same movie for […]
The Week in Star Wars – New Rogue One poster, Han Solo female lead casting and more
Your weekend edition of The Week in Star Wars has a brand new poster for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, details on the female lead casting for Han Solo and more… There’s no Star Wars panel at this year’s New York Comic-Con, so we can’t expect to see any big stories from the galaxy […]
