Danny Collins, 2015. Written and Directed by Dan Fogelman. Starring: Al Pacino, Annette Benning, Jennifer Garner, Bobby Cannavale and Christopher Plummer. SYNOPSIS: An ageing rocker comes to the realisation that his life perhaps hasn’t gone as it should have after he reads a letter written to him by John Lennon, sent decades earlier but not […]
Cary Fukunaga vacates the director’s chair on It
The upcoming adaptation of Stephen King’s horror classic It may have found its Pennywise in British actor Will Poulter (We’re the Millers), but now comes word that the project has lost its director. According to The Wrap, Cary Fukunaga (True Detective) has vacated the director’s chair on the film, which means that production – which […]
The Batmobile has been spotted on the set of Suicide Squad
Well, it looks like those rumors of Batman showing up in Suicide Squad are true, because the Dark Knight’s iconic ride has been spotted on the film’s Toronto set: Previous rumors suggested that Ben Affleck would show up as Batman via some camera footage that Amanda Waller shows the Squad, but with the Batmobile sighting (and reports […]
The Most Disappointing: Caring About Box Office
Anghus Houvouras on caring about box office… What is your favorite film? An easy question to ask and a difficult question to answer. If you’re anything like me you struggle with narrowing it down to your 10 favorite films, much less a single solitary choice. Last week a friend asked me to name my top […]
Blu-ray Review – Island of Death (1976)
Island of Death, 1976. Directed by Nico Mastorakis. Starring Bob Belling, Jane Lyle, Jessica Dublin, Gerard Gonalons and Janice McConnel. SYNOPSIS: A British couple on a Greek island embark on a perverted killing spree, targeting anybody they think deserves punishing. Anybody who has ever taken an interest in the enduring legacy of the video nasty era would […]
Alicia Vikander in talks for Bourne 5 and Assassin’s Creed
Having signed on to appear alongside Tom Hanks in The Circle eariler this month, Deadline is reporting that Alicia Vikander (Ex_Machina) may leave the project, but is instead lining up another two high profile pics. According to the site, the Swedish actress is in talks to appear alongside Matt Damon in the upcoming fifth Bourne […]
Movie Review – Infini (2015)
Infini, 2015. Written and Directed by Shane Abbess. Starring Daniel MacPherson, Grace Huang and Luke Hemsworth. SYNOPSIS: An elite ‘search and rescue’ team transport onto an off-world mining-facility to rescue Whit Carmichael, the lone survivor of a biological outbreak. There’s an old movie saying, that an audience would rather be confused than bored, but this […]
Bill Paxton on Neill Blomkamp’s Alien: “If you’re going to bring Hicks back, you’ve got to have Hudson”
With Michael Biehn’s Corporal Hicks expected to return to the Alien franchise alongside Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley in Neill Blomkamp’s upcoming fifth instalment of the sci-fi series, Entertainment Weekly took the opportunity to ask Bill Paxton if he’d have any interest in reprising the role of Hicks’ fellow Colonial Marine, Private Hudson. “That’s the first I’ve […]
The Callow Way – Why Simon Pegg Was Wrong – And Right
This week, Neil Calloway takes a dim view of Simon Pegg’s comments on the film industry… This week Simon Pegg cited the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard in an attempt to clarify comments made in an earlier interview about the infantilization of film. Pegg said this “as a society, we are kept in a state of […]
Second Opinion – Tomorrowland (2015)
Tomorrowland, 2015. Directed by Brad Bird. Starring George Clooney, Britt Robertson, Thomas Robinson, Raffey Cassidy and Hugh Laurie. SYNOPSIS: Bound by a shared destiny, a teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor embark on a mission to unearth the secrets of a place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective memory. […]
