We’re just a couple of weeks away from strange things happening in your neighbourhood with Paul Feig’s reboot of Ghostbusters hitting cinema screens, and it’s not been without its controversy.There have been several rumours of problems between Sony and the director (with suggestions the studio want to sweep the movie under the rug), and even reports that […]
Phil Lord and Chris Miller say The LEGO Batman Movie is a “90 minute Easter egg”
The Caped Crusader returns to the big screen in February with the release of Warner Bros.’ The LEGO Batman Movie, and producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller have been chatting to Collider about the upcoming spinoff to The LEGO Movie, describing it as a love letter to fans of The Dark Knight.“Chris McKay, the director […]
Garcelle Beauvais and Tiffany Espensen join Spider-Man: Homecoming
Following on from yesterday’s news about the addition of Cagney & Lacey star Tyne Daly, Deadline is now reporting that Garcelle Beauvais (Hollywood Today Live) and Tiffany Espensen (Kirby Buckets) have both joined the cast of Marvel and Sony’s Spider-Man: Homecoming, which is currently shooting in Atlanta. As ever, character details are being kept under […]
Lone Wolf and Cub: Final Conflict getting live-action English language adaptation
Variety is reporting that Ghost in the Shell producer Steven Paul is set to bring Koike Kazuo and Goseki Kojima’s manga Lone Wolf and Cub: Final Conflict to the big screen with an English language adaptation of the classic Japanese comic book.Lone Wolf and Cub: Final Conflict “sees a noble samurai plotted against and framed […]
Star Wars: Episode VIII and Han Solo directors set for panel at Star Wars Celebration
We already know that Rogue One: A Star Wars Story helmer Gareth Edwards is set to appear at Star Wars Celebration Europe this July, and now we can also add Star Wars: Episode VIII’s Rian Johnson and the young Han Solo movie’s Phil Lord and Chris Miller to that list. Johnson, Lord and Miller will appear […]
Movie Review – Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)
Independence Day: Resurgence, 2016.Directed by Roland Emmerich. Starring Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum, William Fichtner, Jessie T. Usher, Bill Pullman, Maika Monroe, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Brent Spiner, Joey King, Sela Ward, Vivica A. Fox, Angelababy, Nicolas Wright, Travis Tope, Judd Hirsch, and Deobia Opare.SYNOPSIS:Two decades after the first Independence Day invasion, Earth is faced with a new extra-Solar […]
Movie Review – The Colony (2015)
The Colony, 2015. Directed by Florian Gallenberger. Starring Daniel Brühl, Emma Watson, Richenda Carey, Vicky Krieps, Michael Nyqvist, Jeanne Werner, Martin Wuttke and August Zirner. SYNOPSIS: After the 1973 Chilean coup d’état against President Salvador Allende, a young German political activist is kidnapped, and deported to the sealed-off hamlet ‘Colonia Dignidad.’ His wife voluntarily enters the […]
Star Trek: Beyond Awful Marketing
Tony Black on the marketing campaign for Star Trek Beyond…So did you notice this week that a third, albeit fairly brief trailer for Star Trek Beyond went online? Probably not. If you’re in the UK, you’ve been too busy watching Game of Thrones or England disgrace themselves in Europe in more ways than one, and […]
Tyne Daly joins Spider-Man: Homecoming
Despite the fact that filming is well underway, Spider-Man: Homecoming continues to add to its cast, with Tyne Daly – best known for her Emmy Award-winning role as Detective Mary Beth Lacey in Cagney & Lacey – signing on to appear in the Marvel and Sony reboot. As with the rest of the newcomers to […]
James Cameron critiques Star Wars: The Force Awakens, felt it lacked “visual imagination”
He may have shifted Avatar 2 to avoid Star Wars: Episode VIII, but it seems that James Cameron wasn’t overly impressed by Disney’s take on Star Wars, with the filmmaker suggesting that Star Wars: The Force Awakens lacked “visual imagination” and that “the jury’s out” on the Sequel Trilogy. “I don’t want to say too much about the […]
