Opening against Spectre was never going to an easy task, but The Peanuts Movie seemed up for the challenge – and didn’t slip when kicking the football. Opening in around 3,900 screens, The Peanuts Movie brought home an estimated $45 million domestically. While not a great result given its rumoured $99 million budget, its CinemaScore […]
BFI Review – An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
An Officer and a Gentleman, 1982. Directed by Taylor Hackford. Starring Richard Gere, Debra Winger, Robert Loggia, Louis Gossett, Jr, David Keith and Lisa Blount. SYNOPSIS: Signing up to the Aviation Academy, Zak Mayo (Richard Gere) finds that his own upbringing haunts him and may stop him from achieving his goal of becoming a jet pilot. Amongst […]
A Bad Weekend At The Box Office
This week, Neil Calloway looks at a bad weekend at the US box office… As Spectre took box office records in Europe on an upside down helicopter ride, then blew up their desert base last weekend, things at the US box office were a very different matter. The latest Bond didn’t open in America until […]
Short Film Review – Neon (2016)
Tom Jolliffe reviews the short film Neon, which premiered at FrightFest 2016… It’s a difficult task to create a short film which captivates and challenges an audience. This I know first hand. One might assume that you can pick up a camera and shoot something for nothing. In theory you could, but you leave yourself […]
Movie Review – Tiger Raid (2016)
Tiger Raid, 2016. Directed by Simon Dixon. Starring Sofia Boutella, Brian Gleeson and Damien Molony. SYNOPSIS: Two Irish mercenaries are tasked with a kidnapping operation in the Iraqi desert. Joe (Brian Gleeson) and Paddy (Damien Molony) travel via a 4×4 through the inhospitable middle-eastern desert to carry out an off-the-books operation, by a faceless, […]
Blu-ray Review – To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
To Live and Die in L.A., 1985. Directed by William Friedkin. Starring William Petersen, Willem Dafoe, John Pankow, Debra Feuer, Dean Stockwell, John Turturro, Robert Downey Sr., Dwier Brown, Michael Greene, Darlanne Fluegel, Steve James. SYNOPSIS: A secret service agent goes out for revenge when his partner is killed but has to resort to criminal […]
Blu-ray Review – Smokey & The Bandit: The Complete Collection
Smokey & The Bandit: The Complete Collection. Directed by Hal Needham/Dick Lowry. Starring Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed, Pat McCormick, Paul Williams, Mike Henry, Colleen Camp, Dom DeLuise, Macon McCalman, Michael Mann, George Reynolds. SYNOPSIS: Box set featuring all three car chase movies remastered on Blu-ray, courtesy of Fabulous Films. Thanks to […]
Kung Fu Panda director adapting comic book Bone
THR is reporting that Kung Fu Panda and The Little Prince director Mark Osborne is set to helm an adaptation of Jeff Smith’s Eisner Award-winning comic book series Bone for Warner Bros., and will also co-write the script with Adam Kline (Artemis Fowl). “Bone is very special and unconventional because it blends elements together that […]
Fox options Divergent author Veronica Roth’s short story Inertia for feature adaptation
Deadline is reporting that Fox 2000 has optioned the rights to Inertia, a short story from Divergent author Veronica Roth, which is being adapted as a feature film by Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen of Temple Hill, the production company behind YA adaptations The Twilight Saga, The Maze Runner and The Fault in Our Stars. […]
DVD Review – Bloodsucking Bosses (2015)
Bloodsucking Bosses, 2015. Directed by Brian James O’Connell. Starring Fran Kranz, Pedro Pascal, Joey Kern, Joel Murray, Emma Fitzpatrick, Yvette Yates and Marshall Givens. SYNOPSIS: Evan is a dedicated office worker who is passed over for promotion in favour of newcomer Max, but once Max settles in to his new job the bodies start piling […]
