Here’s a news story that may send shivers down the spine of martial arts fans – and indeed movie fans – everywhere… According to Aint It Cool News, director Brett Ratner (Rush Hour, X-Men: The Last Stand) is keen on remaking Enter the Dragon, the 1973 classic which made Bruce Lee a global sensation. Ratner […]
And the Academy Award should have gone to… Barry Lyndon
Sam Carey on Barry Lyndon and the Oscars… March 1976 saw One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest fly in to the 48th Academy Awards and leave with statues for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Director and Best Picture. It was only the second time a single film has walked away with awards in […]
Bradley Cooper set to make his directorial debut with A Star Is Born remake
Deadline is reporting that Academy Award nominee Bradley Cooper (American Sniper) is in talks with Warner Bros. to make his directorial debut with a remake of classic musical A Star Is Born. In the works for a while now, the new version of the film was initially set to be directed by Cooper’s American Sniper […]
Neill Blomkamp and Simon Kinberg to produce The Leviathan
After causing quite a stir with his rather splendid CGI proof of concept video last week, filmmaker Ruairi Robinson (The Last Days on Mars) has nabbed a couple of producers for his planned sci-fi feature The Leviathan, with Neill Blomkamp (Chappie) and Simon Kinberg (X-Men: Days of Future Past) boarding the project. As per Deadline, […]
David Strathairn, Catherine Keener, Ansel Elgort and Chloe Grace Moretz to star in November Criminals
Director Sacha Gervasi (Hitchcock, Anvil: The Story of Anvil) has begun assembling the cast for his latest film, November Criminals, which is based on a novel by author Sam Munson. Academy Award nominees David Strathairn (Good Night, and Good Luck) and Catherine Keener (Capote) will feature in the cast alongside Chloë Grace Moretz (Kick Ass) […]
Three X-Men favourites rumoured to cameo in X-Men: Apocalypse
We know that Bryan Singer’s next X-Men movie, X-Men: Apocalypse, will once again focus on the First Class team rather than the old guard as he did with X-Men: Days of Future Past. But that’s not to say that some of the older X-Men folk will be shying away from the movie. According to the […]
Viggo Mortensen on having to decline The Hateful Eight role
In less than nine months we’ll all get to see Quentin Tarantino’s hotly anticipated new movie The Hateful Eight and in a recent interview with Grantland, The Lord of the Rings star Viggo Mortensen admits that he was once up for a role in the western but that he had to say no due to scheduling […]
Glenn Close, Gemma Arterton and Paddy Considine to star in Colm McCarthy’s She Who Brings Gifts
The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Glenn Close (Guardians of the Galaxy), Gemma Arterton (Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters) and Paddy Considine (The World’s End) have signed on to star in She Who Brings Gifts, the feature debut of director Colm McCarthy, whose TV credits include Sherlock, Doctor Who, The Tudors and Peaky Blinders. Based […]
James Bond bootleg animated short In Service of Nothing gets reinstated
Producer Adi Shankar has fought the fight and it looks like he may have, for the time being, won the war. A month ago his bootleg short Power/Rangers: Unauthorized & Hardcore was pulled from YouTube for copyright issues only to be later reinstated after an agreement was reached with Saban Entertainment. Now, similarly, his latest […]
‘Fast’ Food: The empty calories of Furious 7
Anghus Houvouras on Fast & Furious 7… Record breaking box office. Critical praise. A groundswell of support for a well liked actor making his last big screen appearance. Furious 7 has become a massive blockbuster that is getting love from ticket buyers and critics. But it’s still garbage. That’s right. Furious 7 is trash. Warmed […]
