It’s been a fantastic year for Universal Pictures at the box office; having already pulled in the record highest-grossing year for a studio, it has now become the first to have three films hit a billion dollars worldwide in a single year, with Minions hitting the milestone today. The Despicable Me spinoff has pulled in […]
Marvel’s Kevin Feige discusses the story for Captain America: Civil War
With Ant-Man bringing the curtain down on Phase Two of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, attention is now shifting towards the first Phase Three offering as Chris Evans’ Steve Rogers and Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark go head-to-head in Captain America: Civil War, and Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige has been speaking to Zap2It about the […]
Sheffield Doc/Fest Review – The Look of Silence (2014)
The Look of Silence, 2014. Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer. SYNOPSIS: A family that survives the genocide in Indonesia confronts the men who killed one of their brothers. After two films on the same subject, it’s difficult to tell whether director Joshua Oppenheimer is more repulsed by the perpetrators of the 1965 Indonesian genocide or fascinated […]
Watch Rose McGowan’s directorial debut Dawn
Rose McGowan has stepped behind the camera for her directorial debut Dawn, a disturbing tale of a young girl’s budding sexuality and one’s desire to experience the unknown, and you can watch the acclaimed short in its entirety here… Dawn (Tara Barr) is a quiet young teenager living in Kennedy era America who longs for something or […]
The Equalizer 2 set for 2017 release
Back in April it was announced that Sony had given the green light to a sequel to last year’s big screen reboot of The Equalizer, and now the studio has revealed that the follow-up will hit cinemas on September 29th, 2017. As yet, there’s no word on a director for The Equalizer 2, although Denzel […]
Sheffield Doc/Fest Review – Cartel Land (2015)
Cartel Land, 2015. Directed by Matthew Heineman. SYNOPSIS: With unprecedented access, CARTEL LAND is a riveting, on-the-ground look at the journeys of two modern-day vigilante groups and their shared enemy – the murderous Mexican drug cartels. Though Matthew Heineman’s Cartel Land is ostensibly about two vigilante groups battling drug cartels either side of the US-Mexico border, […]
Watch the Mr. Holmes press conference with Ian McKellen and Laura Linney
Ahead of its release next Friday, Ian McKellen and Laua Linney were in London this week for the official press conference for Mr. Holmes, which you can watch right here… https://youtu.be/2enM9mzK1OA MR. HOLMES is a new twist on the world’s most famous detective. 1947, an aging Sherlock Holmes returns from a journey to Japan, where, […]
Movie Review – Spy (2015)
Spy, 2015. Directed by Paul Feig. Starring Melissa McCarthy, Rose Byrne, Miranda Hart, Jason Statham, Jude Law, Allison Janney and Peter Serafinowicz. SYNOPSIS: A desk-bound CIA analyst volunteers to go undercover to infiltrate the world of a deadly arms dealer, and prevent diabolical global disaster. For their third collaboration, Paul Feig and Melissa McCarthy have […]
Chiwetel Ejiofor to play Baron Mordo in Doctor Strange
It has been revealed by Deadline that Chiwetel Ejiofor will play Baron Mordo in Marvel’s upcoming Doctor Strange feature. Ejiofor will star alongside his 12 Years a Slave co-star Benedict Cumberbatch, who has been cast as the Sorcerer Supreme. Though a villain in the Marvel comic book universe, it is not thought that Ejiofor’s character will […]
Zootopia to pass $500 million at the worldwide box office this weekend
After its stunning debut of $75 million in the States earlier this month, Disney’s Zootopia continues its dominance of the global box office, with the film set to pass the $500 million mark this weekend. The film, which has received glowing reviews so far [read ours here], has passed $164 million in the US in its […]
