As 20th Century Fox prepares to relaunch its Fantastic Four franchise next week with the Josh Trank-directed reboot, Comic Book caught up with stars Jamie Bell (The Thing) and Michael B. Jordan (The Human Torch), asking them what they’d like to see in the sequel, which currently has a release date set for June 9th, […]
Movie Review – Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015)
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, 2015. Directed by Christopher McQuarrie. Starring Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Rebecca Ferguson, Sean Harris and Alec Baldwin. SYNOPSIS: Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet, eradicating the Syndicate – an International rogue organization as highly skilled as they are, committed to destroying the […]
Daniel Radcliffe set for FBI thriller Imperium
Deadline is reporting that Daniel Radcliffe is set to star in Imperium, a new crime thriller about a young FBI agent. The project is based on the real-life experiences of FBI undercover agent Michael German, who spent years inside militia and neo-Mazi groups in the USA. Daniel Ragussis will make his feature directorial debut with […]
Nicolas Winding Refn announces debut book release The Act of Seeing
Acclaimed Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn (Bronson, Drive) has announced the release of his debut book The Act of Seeing. Coauthored by FrighFest curator and renowned horror expert Alan Jones and trawls through Refn’s unique collection of rare American film posters as it explores his which shows us Refn’s earliest visual connection with movies, stemming […]
Straight Outta Compton producer talks ‘white washing’ Oscar nominations, “we have to do better”
The Oscar nominations once again reared the Twitter trend of #OscarsSoWhite, noting that very few of the nominations were for people of colour. Straight Outta Compton producer Will Packer took to Facebook to write this empassioned speech asking for the Hollywood industry to “do better” in bringing more work from filmmakers of colour. “But who […]
Second Opinion – Straight Outta Compton (2015)
Straight Outta Compton, 2015. Directed by F. Gary Gray. Starring O’Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, Aldis Hodge, Neil Brown Jr., Marlon Yates Jr. and Paul Giamatti. SYNOPSIS: The group NWA emerges from the mean streets of Compton in Los Angeles, California in the mid-1980s and revolutionizes Hip Hop culture with their music and […]
Simon Kinberg says X-Men: Apocalypse is “the culmination” of a trilogy for the First Class cast
During an interview with Collider to discuss the upcoming release of The Martian, producer Simon Kinberg has been talking about Fox’s next Marvel offering X-Men: Apocalypse, describing it as the culmination of a trilogy featuring the younger X-Men: First Class cast. “[X-Men: Apocalypse] delivers on the dramatic story and emotion of the last two movies. […]
Neil Marshall to direct sci-fi revenge thriller The Sentence
After making the jump to television for the likes of Game of Thrones, Black Sails, Hannibal and Constantine, it looks like Neil Marshall has found his next big screen project, with Deadline reporting that the filmmaker has signed on to helm The Sentence. The project, which is being financed by EuropaCorp, is described as “a […]
Michael Moore announces new documentary Where to Invade Next
Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11 director Michael Moore is set to take on the American government and its foreign policy once again, with the filmmaker revealing details of his new documentary Where to Invade Next, which he has been making “in secret” since 2009. “The issue of the United States at infinite war is […]
HBO president confirms Deadwood reunion in the works
Nearly a decade ago, HBO’s acclaimed and beloved Western drama Deadwood joined the rank of countless other shows that were cancelled all too soon. Since then, there have been several talks of resurrecting the series, and now, thanks to a report from TVLine, it appears that that’s actually a realistic claim. Back in August, HBO entered “preliminary […]
