THR is reporting that Dakota Fanning (American Pastoral) has secured the female lead alongside Daniel Bruhl (Captain America: Civil War) and Luke Evans (Beauty and the Beast) in The Alienist, TNT’s upcoming adaptation of Caleb Carr’s bestselling novel. The psychological thriller series takes place in 1896 New York, and will see Fanning as Sara Howard, […]
Movie Review – Killer Pinata (2015)
Killer Pinata, 2015. Directed by Stephen Tramontana. Starring Lindsay Ashcroft, Nate Bryan, and Billy Chengary. SYNOPSIS: A possessed piñata, seeking to avenge the savagery that humanity has inflicted on his kind, picks off a group of friends, one by one, in an unending night of terror. Sometimes a concept will sell a film. You just […]
Gugu Mbatha-Raw to star in Julia Hart’s Fast Color
LD Entertainment and Original Headquarters have announced that Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Black Mirror) is set to headline Fast Color, a thriller from writer-director Julia Hart (Miss Stevens). The film tells the story a woman named Ruth (Mbatha-Raw) who is forced to go on the run when her superhuman abilities are discovered. Now, years after having abandoned her […]
A Jamie Dornan Retrospective
Based on an extraordinary true story, Anthropoid (read Joshua Gill’s review here) follows the daring plot by two Czechoslovakian agents to assassinate SS officer Reinhard Heydrich, the main architect behind the Final Solution and third in command of the Nazi forces behind Hitler and Himmler. One half of the brave duo is portrayed by Jamie Dornan, former […]
Paul Dano to star in cockpit thriller 7500
Actor Paul Dano has signed on to star in the film 7500, a film that plays out entirely within the confines of a plane’s cockpit as terrorists attack. Deadline Hollywood reports that the There Will Be Blood and Little Miss Sunshine actor will lead the picture which will resemble one location movies like Room and […]
Daredevil composer John Paesano signs on to Pacific Rim: Uprising
John Paesano, the composer responsible for bringing music to Hell’s Kitchen on Netflix’s Daredevil, is set to provide the score for Legendary Pictures’ Pacific Rim: Uprising, the sequel to Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim. While in most situations Paesano’s name being attached to a project would be met with plenty of positive reactions, his involvement with […]
Blu-ray Review – Black Orpheus (1959)
Black Orpheus, 1959. Directed by Marcel Camus. Starring Bruno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Lourdes de Oliveira, Léa Garcia, Ademar Da Silva, and Fausto Guerzoni. SYNOPSIS : A retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, set during the time of the Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro. Featuring an energetic burst of colour, vibrancy, music and dancing, Marcel Camus’ exhilarating […]
Blu-ray Review – Black Society Trilogy
Black Society Trilogy Directed by Takashi Miike. Starring Kippei Shîna, Tomorowo Taguchi, Takeshi Caesar, Shô Aikawa, Li Wei Chang, Shih Chang, Kazuki Kitamura, Dan Li. SYNOPSIS: A collection of three thematically-connected crime stories by cult Japanese director Takashi Miike. Not strictly a trilogy in the common sense of the word, Takashi Miike’s so-called Black Society […]
Anna Kendrick up for Disney’s female Santa movie
Disney is working on a new female led Santa Claus movie and Anna Kendrick is up for the lead role. From Marc Lawrence, the writer of Miss Congeniality, the film – which is working under the title Nicole – revolves around the tale of Santa’s daughter who has to take up the family business after her father […]
Could This Be The End Of Hollywood’s Pay Imbalance?
This week, Neil Calloway looks at the inequality in what men and women get paid for movies… There has been much made recently of the disparity in pay between men and women across all industries, and a story this week brought the issue in Hollywood into sharp relief when Natalie Portman revealed that she was […]
