During a conversation with comic book writer Mark Millar, IGN got the chance to ask a couple of questions about the upcoming sequel to director Matthew Vaughn’s spy caper Kingsman: The Secret Service – and specifically, the return of Colin Firth’s Galahad. Warning: spoilers for the first movie follow… “That’s the conversation everyone’s having right […]
Forget Superhero Oversaturation, What About The Biopic?
Samuel Brace on the oversaturation of the biopic… It’s that time of year again, fall is upon us, the nights are drawing in, the mornings becoming dim, and awards season is on the way. Now, I am a film fan, unabashedly so, I look forward to this time of year when movies become plentiful and […]
Vin Diesel says Fast & Furious 8 will launch “one last trilogy to end the saga”
During the week, a rumour emerged suggesting that Universal Pictures is struggling to find a director to replace James Wan on the upcoming eighth instalment of the Fast & Furious franchise, and now Vin Diesel has taken to Facebook to address that report, as well as revealing that Fast & Furious 8 will start a […]
Armando Iannucci assembles an all-star cast for The Death of Stalin
Armando Iannucci (The Thick of It, Veep) is assembling an all-star cast for his next feature film project, The Death of Stalin, which is based upon Fabien Nury and Thierry Robin’s 2011 graphic novel and explores the political infighting in the days following the death of the Soviet leader in 1953. According to The Hollywood […]
March of the Penguins is getting a sequel
In news coming out of Cannes, Variety is reporting that Wild Bunch is shopping around a sequel to the Academy Award-winning documentary March of the Penguins. The sequel, titled March of the Penguins 2: The Call, was shot in 4K last winter in Antarctica, and is once again directed by Luc Jacquet. There’s no word […]
Shia LaBeouf to play John McEnroe in Borg/McEnroe
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Shia LaBeouf has signed on to play tennis legend John McEnroe in the upcoming biopic Borg/McEnroe, which will chronicle “the long-running battle for supremacy in the tennis world in the 1970s and 1980s between McEnroe and Swedish star Bjorn Borg.” LaBeouf will star alongside Swedish actor Sverrir Gudnason (A Serious […]
Joe Pesci unlikely to appear in Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman
Having finally reached a deal to bring The Irishman to the screen at Cannes after a fierce bidding war, Martin Scorsese’s plans for his long-gestating adaptation of Charles Brandt’s bestselling book I Heard You Paint Houses have suffered a setback, with The Hollywood Reporter revealing that there’s a big question mark over the involvement of […]
Dakota Johnson joins David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake
How To Be Single and Fifty Shades of Grey star Dakota Johnson star is set join the cast of the new film from acclaimed director David Robert Mitchell (It Follows). Under the Silver Lake is reportedly a “modern noir crime thriller set in Los Angeles” and is written and directed by Mitchell, who shot to fame […]
Steven Moffat dismisses rumours about a shorter series 10 for Doctor Who
Yesterday The Mirror reported that the tenth series of Doctor Who would run for half of its usual twelve episodes to allow Peter Capaldi to pursue other projects, but Who fans can now breathe easy as showrunner Steven Moffat has dimissed the rumour as “bunk”. “We’re making a full series,” Moffat tells Radio Times. “I […]
Movie Review – The Diabolical (2015)
The Diabolical, 2015. Directed by Alistair Legrand. Starring Ali Larter, Max Rose, Chloe Perrin, Patrick Fischler and Arjun Gupta. SYNOPSIS: Madison, a single mother, and her children, are awoken nightly by an increasingly strange and intense presence. She seeks help from her scientist boyfriend Nikolai, who begins a hunt to destroy the violent spirit that paranormal […]
