Born to Be Blue, 2015. Directed by Robert Budreau. Starring Ethan Hawke, Carmen Ejogo, Callum Keith Rennie and Stephen McHattie. SYNOPSIS: The career of jazz musician Chet Baker (Ethan Hawke) looks to be over. He’s addicted to cocaine and a savage beating makes playing the trumpet almost impossible. But he’s determined to get back to the top. […]
Suicide Squad gets a 15 certificate from the BBFC
It may be rated PG-13 in the States, but you’re going to have to be fifteen years or older to watch Suicide Squad here in the UK and Ireland. The BBFC has granted the DC supervillain ensemble a 15 certificate – the same as the R-rated Deadpool earlier this year – due to “sustained threat […]
R.I.P. Garry Marshall (1934 – 2016)
Garry Marshall, the creator of the classic U.S. sitcom Happy Days and director of Pretty Woman, has passed away aged 81, his publicist has announced. The legendary writer, producer and director died of pneumonia at a hospital in Burbank, California, after suffering a stroke. Marshall began his career as a TV writer in the late 1950s, and […]
20th Century Fox adapting Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard
Boom! Studios’ Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard is heading to the big screen, with The Hollywood Reporter revealing that 20th Century Fox has snapped up the rights to the Eisner Award-winning comic book series for a live-action adaptation. Mouse Guard is written and illustrated by David Petersen and has sold close to one million […]
Star Trek 4: Will the two Chris’ equal double the box office?
Tony Black on the addition of Chris Hemsworth’s George Kirk in Star Trek 4… It’s been quite the week for Star Trek news, and it’s only Monday! With the looming arrival of Star Trek Beyond getting (much to my delight) very positive initial critical buzz, we’ve not only found out the new Bryan Fuller series […]
J.J. Abrams would like to see a Knights of Ren Star Wars Anthology movie
As Lucasfilm gears up to expand the Star Wars franchise with its first Anthology movie Rogue One: A Star Wars Story this December, Collider asked Star Wars: The Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams which spinoff movie he’d like to see in the future. “I gotta say Kathy Kennedy, who’s running it all, she seems to […]
Mark Rylance praises Christopher Nolan’s “pure war film” Dunkirk
Fan favourite filmmaker Christopher Nolan is currently hard at work on production of Dunkirk, a World War II epic which chronicles Operation Dynamo – the 1940 evacuation of 330,000 Allied soldiers surrounded by advancing German forces on the beaches of Dunkirk. During an appearance on the Empire Podcast (via Collider), Oscar-winning Mark Rylance has offered some […]
Sony executive has “no doubt” that we’ll see a Ghostbusters sequel
Well, it wasn’t quite the unmitigated disaster many were predicting, with Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters reboot opening to a decent enough $46 million in its domestic opening weekend (albeit in second place behind The Secret Life of Pets). International takings from a few major markets including the UK and Australia weren’t too strong though, adding just […]
DVD Review – Forsaken (2016)
Forsaken, 2016 Directed by Jon Cassar. Starring Kiefer Sutherland, Donald Sutherland, Demi Moore, Michael Wincott, Greg Ellis and Brian Cox. SYNOPSIS: In the Old West, former Civil War-veteran John Henry returns to his frontier hometown where he must repair a fractious relationship with his Reverend father, and face the demons of his past when a […]
Rumour: Batman solo movie will take place in Arkham Asylum
Despite the fact it still doesn’t have a completed script, the rumour sites have already tossed up plenty of speculation about Ben Affleck’s solo Batman movie, with previous reports claiming that it will incorporate elements of the comic book stories A Death in the Family and Under the Red Hood, and / or feature “most” of […]
