13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, 2016. Directed by Michael Bay. Starring John Krasinski, Max Martini, James Badge Dale, Freddie Stroma and Toby Stephens. SYNOPSIS: Over the course of one hot, desperate night, a team of covert American military defence contractors must protect a secret CIA compound in the Libyan city of Benghazi from […]
X-Men: The real Apocalypse is its continuity!
Tony Black attempts to make sense of the continuity of the X-Men franchise… Have you ever attempted to make sense of the X-Men movie continuity? As in pick apart the entire timeline of events across the eight, soon to be nine films in the franchise? Of course not, you all have lives. You have friends […]
Movie Review – Girl in Woods (2016)
Girl in Woods, 2016 Directed by Jeremy Benson. Starring Juliet Reeves, Jeremy London, John Still and Charisma Carpenter. SYNOPSIS: Grace Walker and her fiancee Jim take a romantic journey into the Smoky Mountains to celebrate their engagement, but after a tragic and fatal accident, Grace is left alone with only the woods and her demons […]
How do you solve a problem like Zack Snyder?
It’s a question that divides many. Some don’t even believe it needs answering, particularly those who defended Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice against the legions of critics and fans who heaped scorn on it. Warner Bros themselves didn’t think it was a question at all, given how shocked the studio were that people *gasp* […]
Daniel Craig, it’s okay if you let Bond go
Tony Black on Daniel Craig’s future as Bond… We all knew this was coming. By we, I mean the legion of James Bond fans and aficionados who have followed the bizarre media whirlwind that seems to forever cascade around 007 himself, Daniel Craig. The Daily Fail (sorry, Mail!) apparently claimed Craig is done – that […]
With Gareth gone, where does Godzilla go next?
With Gareth Edwards exiting the Godzilla sequel, Tony Black asks what is next for the King of the Monsters… When Godzilla returned in 2014, the odds were stacked against him. The last time Hollywood had seen everyone’s favourite movie monster, he was ignominiously handled by the Roland Emmerich/Dean Devlin popcorn machine in 1997’s hokey version. […]
MIB 23: How the most unlikely movie mash-up came to be
Tony Black on the Jump Street and Men in Black crossover MIB 23… Remember the big Sony leak at the end of 2014? The one that made everyone panic about that really rather rubbish North Korea-baiting Rogen/Franco comedy? Well aside from the news that Spider-Man might end up coming back to the MCU (and arguably […]
Assassin’s Creed: How might the movie differ from the games?
Tony Black on how the Assassin’s Creed movie might differ from the games… Around half a year out from the arrival of Justin Kurzel’s big screen adaptation of Ubisoft’s monster hit video game series Assassin’s Creed, and with filming complete, first images and limited plot details are starting to trickle out about arguably the most […]
DVD Review – Mercury Plains (2016)
Mercury Plains, 2016. Directed by Charles Burmeister. Starring Scott Eastwood, Nick Chinlund and Angela Sarafyan. SYNOPSIS: Mitch, jobless and drifting, accepts an offer by an undercover FBI paramilitary officer over the Mexican border to join his crew taking out the drug trade. He soon however begins to question his motives… Scott Eastwood seems perennially like […]
Fox and Comic-Con: Is Pulling Out the Smart Move?
Tony Black on Fox’s decision to pull out of the San Diego Comic-Con… It’s come to light this week that 20th Century Fox have pulled out of San Diego Comic Con, arguably one of the biggest promotional events on the yearly calendar where all the major studios roll out exclusive footage of their upcoming blockbusters […]
