The Philadelphia Story, 1940. Directed by George Cukor. Starring Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant and James Stewart. SYNOPSIS: Set to remarry, Tracy Lord (Hepburn) has to contend with her ex-husband (Cary Grant) and a reporter on the snoop (James Stewart) as she tries to go through with her upper-class wedding – with their intention to spoil it. […]
Eddie Murphy calls Beverly Hills Cop 3 “garbage”, no development on Beverly Hills Cop 4 or TV show spin-off
Eddie Murphy reckons he is best known for his role as Axel Foley in the Beverly Hills Cop series, but doesn’t have the fondest of opinions on the third instalment. “The third Beverly Hills Cop was garbage,” Murphy told Playboy Magazine. Beverly Hills Cop movie, which opened in 1984, grossed $234 million domestically while its […]
Second Opinion – Selma (2015)
Selma, 2015. Directed by Ava DuVernay. Starring David Oyelowo, Tom Wilkinson, Giovanni Ribisi, Carmen Ejogo, Cuba Gooding Jr, Oprah Winfrey, Common and Tim Roth. SYNOPSIS: A chronicle of Martin Luther King’s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965. Watching a film like Selma is […]
Lawrence Kasdan teases Lando Calrissian for future Star Wars movies
Lawrence Kasdan (or Larry Kasdan as he’s often called) has been a part of the Star Wars universe for many years now, having written the scripts for The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi and co-authoring Star Wars: The Force Awakens. In an interview with Vanity Fair, the writer promised some exciting things coming […]
Kingsman cast and crew discuss broken teeth, spy films, and more
In preparation for its North American release, a premiere was held for Kingsman: The Secret Service with members of the cast and crew in attendance. Filming the hyper-violent satirical spy movie seems to have been a positive experience as everyone had good things to say. Well, Colin Firth admits he broke a tooth when inquired […]
Sony confirms Spider-Man spin-offs
Prior to Marvel and Sony reaching a deal that would see the wall-crawler join the MCU, Sony had big plans for a Shared Spider-Man Universe with movies being developed for The Sinister Six, Venom and an ‘female Spider-Man film’. It has been rumoured that those plans were still on the cards, and Sony chairman Tom […]
The Sinister Six movie could still happen
After about a year in development, it seemed as though Drew Goddard’s Sinister Six could have been shelved following Spider-Man joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe earlier this year. However, Goddard still believes the film may be alive and well. “My vision of that movie was a summer annual,” he told io9 in a newly-released interview. “So you didn’t […]
Selma director Ava DuVernay would like to helm a Marvel movie
As Disney and Marvel look to expand their roster of movies to three per year, it seems many directors are looking to jump on the band wagon as a way of furthering their profile. We’ve already seen how directing Thor: The Dark World got Alan Taylor the job on Terminator: Genisys and Guardian of the […]
DVD Review – The Rewrite (2014)
The Rewrite, 2014 Written and directed by Marc Lawrence Starring Hugh Grant, Marisa Tomei, J.K. Simmons, Allison Janney, Chris Elliot SYNOPSIS: An Oscar-winning writer in a slump leaves Hollywood to teach screenwriting at a college on the East Coast, where he falls for a single mom taking classes there. Hugh Grant is an actor who seemingly […]
Movie Review – Seventh Son (2015)
Seventh Son, 2015. Directed by Sergey Bodrov. Starring Jeff Bridges, Ben Barnes, Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Olivia Williams, and Antje Traue. SYNOPSIS: Young Thomas is apprenticed to the local Spook to learn to fight evil spirits. His first great challenge comes when the powerful Mother Malkin escapes her confinement while the Spook is […]
