Following the box office success of The Jungle Book, director Jon Favreau is currently hard at work on bringing another of Disney’s animated classics back to the big screen with a “live-action” remake of The Lion King, after which he’ll be returning to the world of Rudyard Kipling for The Jungle Book 2. Speaking to […]
Tom Hanks to play Captain Sully in Clint Eastwood’s Miracle on the Hudson movie
He’s played Captain Phillips, and now it looks like he’s going to play Captain Sully… According to Deadline, Tom Hanks has entered negotiations to star as Captain Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger in Clint Eastwood’s upcoming biopic of the veteran pilot who became an American hero in 2009 thanks to the ‘Miracle on the Hudson’, where he […]
Michael Douglas in talks for Ant-Man and the Wasp
Earlier in the week it was confirmed by Peyton Reed that the director is in talks to return for the Ant-Man sequel Ant-Man and the Wasp, and now Michael Douglas has revealed to Collider that he’s also in negotiations with Marvel about reprising the role of Hank Pym. “I just got a call recently – […]
The Cult of Pixar
Anghus Houvouras on the cult of Pixar… I can remember my first Pixar film like it was yesterday. I was in college looking for an excuse not to study. Like many film enthusiasts the idea of a computer generated animated film had stoked my interest. A friend wandered into the theater green room and said […]
DVD Review – School For Sex (1969)
School For Sex, 1969. Directed by Pete Walker. Starring Derek Aylward, Rose Alba, Bob Andrews, Edgar K. Bruce, Vic Wise, Hugh Latimer, Nosher Powell, Cathy Howard. SYNOPSIS: A crooked aristocrat opens a finishing school to teach girls how to extort money from rich men. School For Sex followed For Men Only in director Pete Walker’s output and […]
Peyton Reed reveals the original opening scene for Ant-Man
Yesterday we brought you some comments from Peyton Reed as he outlined the original ending for Marvel’s latest superhero blockbuster Ant-Man, and now the director has revealed an oepning scene that was shot, but ultimately discarded during post-production. “It was basically a standalone sequence where you really did not see it was Hank Pym,” Reed […]
Blu-ray Review – Contamination (1980)
Contamination, 1980. Directed by Luigi Cozzi. Starring Ian McCulloch, Louise Marleau, Marino Masé and Siegfried Rauch. SYNOPSIS: Pod-like alien spores filled with an explosive acid are brought to Earth after a mission to Mars and distributed through a South American coffee company by alien clones. Contamination is what you get when you mash together Invasion […]
Rumours of Rambo fighting ISIS in Rambo: Last Blood debunked
A report emerged earlier today claiming that the upcoming Rambo: Last Blood would see Sylvester Stallone taking his Vietnam veteran to Syria to tackle ISIS for the fifth and final instalment in the Rambo series, with the action icon allegedly breaking the news at Comic-Con over the weekend. However, it turns out that the original […]
Ryan Reynolds wants to return as Deadpool for X-Force movie
Almost two years ago to the day, it was announced that Jeff Wadlow (Kick-Ass 2) had signed on to write the script for an X-Men spinoff movie based around the team of X-Force. Since that time, Fox has pressed ahead with two other spinoffs in Deadpool and Gambit, as well as hiring Josh Boone (The […]
Movie Review – Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’ (2015)
Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’, 2015. Directed by Masahiro Hosoda. Featuring the voice talents of Sean Schemmel, Christopher R. Sabat and Chris Ayres. SYNOPSIS: The heroes of the Dragon Ball Z universe are faced with the revival of their most dangerous adversary in a showdown to decide the fate of earth once more. The first […]
