Phenomena, 1985. Directed by Dario Argento. Starring Jennifer Connelly, Donald Pleasence, Daria Nicolodi, Patrick Bauchau, Fiore Argento, Federica Mastroianni, and Michele Soavi. SYNOPSIS: A teenage girl with telepathic abilities moves to a Swiss boarding school and uses her gift to communicate with insects in order to solve a spate of murders. If something is worth […]
Garret Dillahunt joins Steve McQueen’s Widows
Deadline is reporting that Garret Dillahunt is set to reunite with his 12 Years a Slave director Steve McQueen for the British filmmaker’s latest project Widows. The big screen adaptation of the 1983 Lynda La Plante crime series has been scripted by Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn and focuses on a group of women who […]
DVD Review – Security (2017)
Security, 2017. Directed by Alain Desrochers. Starring Antonio Banderas, Ben Kingsley, Liam McIntyre, Chad Lindberg, Katherine de la Rocha, and Gabriella Wright. SYNOPSIS: A shopping mall security guard has to protect a female trial witness from a psychopathic criminal and his gang of soldiers looking to stop her testifying against them. And so the run […]
Joe Cornish to direct fantasy adventure The Kid Who Would Be King
It’s been six years since the release of his directorial debut Attack the Block, but it seems that Joe Cornish is ready to get back behind the camera, with The Playlist revealing that he is set to helm The Kid Who Would Be King. The site has uncovered an audition sheet for the project seeking […]
Tyler Perry to play filmmaker Oscar Micheaux in HBO biopic
According to Variety, HBO has set Tyler Perry to portray pioneering African-American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux in an upcoming biopic, which is based upon film historian Patrick McGilligan’s 2007 biography Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only: The Life of America’s First Black Filmmaker. Novelist turned filmmaker Micheaux made his directorial debut in 1919 with an adaptation […]
Charlie Plummer joins Ridley Scott’s All the Money in the World
With Alien: Covenant set to open in UK cinemas this coming Friday [read our review here], director Ridley Scott is gearing up to go into production on his next project, the Getty kidnapping drama All the Money in the World, and Variety is reporting that up and coming actor Charlie Plummer (King Jack) has secured […]
Shia LaBeouf to star in The Peanut Butter Falcon
According to Variety, Shia LaBeouf has signed on to star in the indie adventure drama The Peanut Butter Falcon, which is being written and directed by Tyler Nilson and Mike Schwartz. Described as “in the vein of a Mark Twain tale”, the film will follow Zak, “a young man with Down syndrome, who runs away […]
Game of Thrones’ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Carice van Houten reunite for Brian De Palma’s Domino
Deadline is reporting that Game of Thrones stars Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Carice van Houten have signed on to star in Brian De Palma’s upcoming suspense thriller Domino, which has been scripted by Petter Skavlan (Kon-Tiki). The film sees the duo as two police officers “who go rogue while tracking down the killer of their police […]
The Bond Cinematic Universe Is A Bad Idea
Neil Calloway thinks more films set in the Bond Universe should remain on the drawing board… Of course there is talk of a James Bond Cinematic Universe; I’d put good money on someone in Hollywood holding a meeting about whether there should be a La La Land Cinematic Universe. Bond is possibly the most iconic […]
Michael Keaton confirms Tim Burton reunion on Dumbo
Back in April it was reported that actor Michael Keaton could be set for a reunion with director Tim Burton, albeit on Disney’s live-action Dumbo remake, as opposed to the long-rumoured Beetlejuice sequel. Well, speaking to Good Morning America to promote the release of his new film Spider-Man: Homecoming, Keaton has confirmed that he is […]
