Spider-Man is set to make his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut in a few short weeks as Tom Holland takes on the role in Captain America: Civil War, before taking centre stage in his own reboot next year… and it seems that the solo movie may be using a title that may be familiar to long time […]
Controversial Ten Years wins Best Picture at Hong Kong Film Awards
Controversial indie film Ten Years has won the highest accolade at the 35th Hong Kong Film Awards, despite its highly controversial, anti-Communist message. As a result, many of the state’s top government-controlled news outlets have neglected to report on the win, despite the Hong Kong Awards being one of the most important ceremonies of the […]
Rumour: Bottom star Ade Edmondson cast in Star Wars: Episode VIII
Now, this one comes from The Sun, so it could very well be as fictional as it is surprising, but according to the UK tabloid The Young Ones and Bottom star Ade Edmondson has bagged himself a role in Disney and Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: Episode VIII. According to the report, Edmondson impressed director Rian Johnson […]
DVD Review – Kill Your Friends (2015)
Kill Your Friends, 2015. Directed By Owen Harris. Starring Nicholas Hoult, James Corden, Craig Roberts, Georgia King, Jim Piddock and Joseph Mawle. SYNOPSIS: An A&R executive for a big record label goes on a killing spree so he can sign the next chart-topping hit makers. Based on John Niven’s novel of the same name, Kill Your Friends is to the […]
Blu-ray Review – Firewalker (1986)
Firewalker, 1986. Directed by J. Lee Thompson. Starring Chuck Norris, Louis Gossett Jr., Melody Anderson, Sonny Landham, Will Sampson, John Rhys-Davies, Ian Abercrombie. SYNOPSIS: A pair of hapless adventurers take on a job to find priceless Aztec gold but are pursued by a vengeful spirit who will stop at nothing to protect it. Back in […]
DVD Review – The Secret of My Success (1987)
The Secret of My Success, 1987. Directed by Herbert Ross. Starring Michael J. Fox, Helen Slater, Richard Jordan, Margaret Whitton, John Pankow, Fred Gwynne. SYNOPSIS: A college kid from Kansas moves to New York and blags his way to the top of a multinational corporation, falling in love along the way. For a few years […]
DVD Review – Innocence of Memories (2015)
Innocence of Memories, 2015. Directed by Grant Gee. Starring Pandora Colin and Mehmet Ergen. SYNOPSIS: Ayla narrators the story of Pamuk’s novel The Museum of Innocence in fresh vivid detail, bringing the landscape of Istanbul during the 70’s to life. Based on the museum and novel that won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2006, […]
Alex Gibney to make narrative feature film debut with The Action
Alex Gibney, the director behind such documentaries as Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, The Armstrong Lie and the Oscar-winning Taxi to the Dark Side, is set to make his narrative feature film debut with The Action, a 1970s-set political thriller which is being produced by […]
Disney snaps up the big screen rights to The Paper Magician trilogy
The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Disney has snapped up the movie rights to Charlie N. Holmberg’s YA fantasy trilogy The Paper Magician, and has tapped Allison Shearmur (The Hunger Games, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) to produce the big screen adaptation. The story “centers on Ceony Twill, a young girl who is a […]
Jonah Hill to make directorial debut with Mid ’90s
Oscar-nominated actor Jonah Hill is set to turn his hand to directing, with The Hollywood Reporter revealing that he’s set to helm the coming of age comedy-drama Mid ’90s, which he has also written. The film will tell the story of “a group of California teens who are trying to navigate drinking, drugs, fighting, sex, […]
