Deadline is reporting that Sausage Party co-director Conrad Vernon has signed on to helm the long-gestating remake of Troma’s cult 1984 superhero horror-comedy The Toxic Avenger. Mike Arnold and Chris Poole (Archer) are set to rewrite the screenplay, which was originally penned by Steve Pink (Hot Tub Time Machine). “The opportunity to re-imagine a favorite […]
Blu-ray Review – Matinee (1993)
Matinee, 1993. Directed by Joe Dante. Starring John Goodman, Cathy Moriarty, Simon Fenton, Robert Picardo, Dick Miller, Omri Katz, Lisa Jakub and John Sayles. SYNOPSIS: An enterprising film promoter capitalises on the hysteria during the Cuban missile crisis and introduces the idea of live props and special effects to a Florida town during a horror […]
Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson’s Shanghai Dawn moving forward with director Jared Hess
Back in May of last year it was announced that Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson were looking to reunite on Shanghai Dawn, a follow-up to 2000’s Shanghai Noon and 2003’s Shanghai Knights, and now Deadline is reporting that the project is moving forward under Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess. The new film has been scripted […]
Rosamund Pike joins Christian Bale in Hostiles
Last month it was announced that Christian Bale is to reunite with Out of the Furnace director Scott Cooper for the Western epic Hostiles, and now Deadline has revealed that Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) has also signed on to appear in the cast. Hostiles is based on a thirty-year old script by Donald Stewart (Missing), […]
Second Opinion – Café Society (2016)
Café Society, 2016. Written and Directed by Woody Allen. Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Blake Lively, Steve Carell, Corey Stoll, Parker Posey, Ken Stott and Jeannie Berlin. SYNOPSIS: In the 1930s, a young Bronx native moves to Hollywood where he falls in love with the secretary of his powerful uncle, an agent to the stars. […]
Natalie Portman is the First Lady in first clip from biopic Jackie
Following its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, the first clip has arrived online from director Pablo Larrain’s upcoming biopic Jackie which stars Natalie Portman as First Lady Jackie Kennedy; check it out here… The assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 was one of those moments that defined a generation. That this handsome, charismatic […]
Michael Keaton joins American Assassin
Deadline is reporting that Michael Keaton has signed on to star in American Assassin, CBS Films and Lionsgate’s adaptation of Vince Flynn’s bestselling book series revolving around the character of CIA counter-terrorism operative Mitch Rapp. Keaton will play Stan Hurley, Rapp’s mentor, who teaches him everything he needs to know. The film, which is being […]
Halle Berry to play the head of the CIA in Kingsman 2
It looks like Halle Berry could be set to enlist for Kingsman 2, with Deadline reporting that the X-Men star is in talks with Fox about joining the cast of the sequel to 2014’s hit spy comedy, where she’d play the head of the CIA. The follow-up to Kingsman: The Secret Service will reunite director […]
Nicolas Cage to direct Vengeance: A Love Story
Last month it was announced that Nicolas Cage had signed on to star in Vengeance: A Love Story, an adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’ 2003 novel Rape: A Love Story, and now it has been revealed that Cage will also take on directing duties, with original helmer Harold Becker departing the project over a budgetary […]
DVD Review – Vampyres (2015)
Vampyres, 2015. Directed by Victor Matellano. Starring Caroline Munro, Verónica Polo, Marta Flich, Almudena León, Anthony Rotsa, Lone Fleming. SYNOPSIS: Two female phantoms haunt an old house and lure unsuspecting victims into their den of sex and death. Of all the horror movies on the list of probable remakes one has to question who thought […]
