Ben Robins on the five weirdest monster movies ever… With the Godzilla/King Kong universe getting a sudden resurgence, and Cloverfield taking things into franchise territory at long last, the monster movie is suddenly in something of an unexpected heyday as far as Hollywood is concerned. Whether they’re human size or intergalactically huge, monsters of all […]
Movie Review – The Confessions (2016)
The Confessions, 2016 Directed by Roberto Andò. Starring Toni Servillo, Daniel Auteuil, Pierfrancesco Favino, Connie Nielsen, Lambert Wilson, Marie-Josée Croze, and Moritz Bleibtreu. SYNOPSIS: At G8 meeting in Germany, a monk invited by director of the International Monetary Fund ends up thrust into the middle of a murder investigation while navigating a web of international […]
Movie Review – Whisky Galore! (2016)
Whisky Galore!, 2016. Directed by Gillies MacKinnon, Starring Gregor Fisher, Eddie Izzard, Ellie Kendrick, Kevin Guthrie, Fenella Woolgar and James Cosmo. SYNOPSIS: It’s 1941, rationing is in force and the residents of the Scottish island of Todday are faced with a nightmare. Their supply of whisky has run out and the island is completely dry. […]
Matt Reeves is “starting over” with The Batman and will not be using Ben Affleck’s script
A lot has changed since Ben Affleck announced that he would be directing and starring in his own Batman film. Obviously, Affleck stepped down as director, and after a brief period of uncertainty it was revealed that Matt Reeves (Rise of the Planet of the Apes) would be stepping in to take over. Reeves has […]
Julia Roberts cast in The Bookseller
THR has revealed that Julia Roberts is to headline The Bookseller, an adaptation of Cynthia Swanson’s bestselling novel about a woman in the 1960s who has to reconcile her reality with the tantalizing alternate world of her dreams. Roberts is set to play Kitty Miller, “a single woman who runs a bookshop, who finds herself […]
The Walking Dead’s Elizabeth Ludlow joins Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Filming on Godzilla: King of the Monsters got underway last month under director Michael Dougherty (Krampus), and now Deadline is reporting that actress Elizabeth Ludlow (The Walking Dead) has become the latest addition to the cast of the MonsterVerse sequel. As with much of the cast, her role is being kept under wraps for the […]
Renee Zellweger and more join Sarah Jessica Parker in Best Day of My Life
AMBI Group have announced the supporting cast set to join Sarah Jessica Parker in the romantic drama Best Day of My Life, with Renée Zellweger (Bridget Jones’s Diary), Isabella Rossellini (Blue Velvet), Common (John Wick: Chapter 2), Simon Baker (The Devil Wears Prada), Taylor Kinney (Rock the Kasbah) and Gus Birney (The Mist) all signing […]
Gael Garcia Bernal, Rosa Salazar and more join Maggie Gyllenhaal in The Kindergarten Teacher
Variety is reporting that Gael Garcia Bernal (Mozart in the Jungle), Rosa Salazar (Alita: Battle Angel), Michael Chernus (Spider-Man: Homecoming), Anna Baryshnikov (Manchester By the Sea), Daisy Tahan (The Nice Guys), Samrat Chakrabarti (In Treatment) and Ajay Naidu (Office Space) have joined Maggie Gyllenhaal (Crazy Heart) in The Kindergarten Teacher. Written and directed by Sara […]
Moonlight’s Barry Jenkins to direct If Beale Street Could Talk
Director Barry Jenkins has found his next feature following the Best Picture-winning Moonlight, with Variety reporting that he is set to helm an adaptation of James Baldwin’s novel If Beale Street Could Talk, which is being produced by Annapurna Pictures. The project “follows Tish, a newly engaged Harlem woman who races against the clock to […]
Score Reviews – Despicable Me 3 and Castlevania
Tony Black reviews the scores for Despicable Me 3 and Castlevania… The third film in the animated franchise sees Heitor Pereira return once again as composer for Despicable Me 3, in which loveable bad guy Gru gets a twin brother, the Minions go to prison, a new bad guy emerges and the usual comedic […]
