This past May, Sony and Screen Gems put a movie about viral horror sensation Slender Man into development, and now that project has a director. According to Deadline, Stomp the Yard and The Losers helmer Sylvain White has been tapped to bring the faceless, abnormally tall Slender Man to the big screen, with production set to begin this Spring. Slender Man […]
Christian Slater is interested in playing a live action Suicide Squad villain
Christian Slater has revealed that he would be open to playing a Suicide Squad villain in a future live action movie. One of the stars of the Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay animated movie, where he plays Deadshot, Christian Slater says that he could see himself transitioning to an actual villain to the squad in […]
Samuel L. Jackson in talks to star in Tim Burton’s Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children
After a long career that has seen him work with some of the biggest directors in Hollywood, it looks as if Samuel L. Jackson (The Avengers, Pulp Fiction) will be able to cross another name of his list. Deadline is reporting that Jackson is in talks to join Tim Burton’s latest project, Miss Peregrine’s Home […]
DVD Review – Terrifier (2017)
Terrifier, 2017. Directed by Damien Leone. Starring Catherine Corcoran, Jenna Kanell, Margaret Reed, David Howard Thornton, Michael Leavy, and Katie Maguire. SYNOPSIS: It’s Halloween night and a psychopathic clown terrorizes the streets, homing in on three young women. A success on the festival circuit last year, Damien Leone’s Terrifier certainly hit at the right time, […]
Movie Review – Lean on Pete (2018)
Lean on Pete, 2018. Written and Directed by Andrew Haigh Starring Charlie Plummer, Chloë Sevigny, Travis Fimmel, Steve Buscemi, Steve Zahn, Thomas Mann, Amy Seimetz, Lewis Pullman, and Alison Elliott SYNOPSIS: A teenager gets a summer job working for a horse trainer and befriends the fading racehorse, Lean on Pete. Structurally, Lean on Pete will […]
Movie Review – Wildling (2018)
Wildling, 2018. Directed by Fritz Bohm. Starring Bel Powley, Liv Tyler, Brad Dourif, Collin Kelly-Sordelet, Mike Faist, Troy Ruptash, and James Le Gros. SYNOPSIS: A blossoming teenager uncovers the dark secret behind her traumatic childhood. One thought lingered in my mind (and still hasn’t left) upon watching the uncomfortably inappropriate The Diary of a Teenage Girl: […]
Movie Review – Where is Kyra? (2018)
Where is Kyra?, 2018. Directed by Andrew Dosunmu. Starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Kiefer Sutherland, Sam Robards, and Suzanne Shepherd. SYNOPSIS: In Brooklyn, New York, Kyra (Pfeiffer) loses her job and struggles to survive on her ailing mother’s income. As the weeks and months go on, her problems worsen. This leads her on a risky and enigmatic […]
Movie Review – Chappaquiddick (2017)
Chappaquiddick, 2017. Directed by John Curran Starring Jason Clarke, Ed Helms, Kate Mara, Olivia Thirlby, Clancy Brown, Bruce Dern, Jim Gaffigan, Andria Blackman, Sarah Elizabeth Mitchell, Taylor Nichols, John Fiore, and Lexie Roth. SYNOPSIS: Chappaquiddick depicts the events leading up to, and following, Ted Kennedy’s 1969 car accident that took the life of campaign strategist […]
Movie Review – Thoroughbreds (2017)
Thoroughbreds, 2017. Directed by Cory Finley. Starring Olivia Cooke, Anya Taylor-Joy, Anton Yelchin, Paul Sparks and Kaili Vernoff. SYNOPSIS: Unlikely friends at school, Amanda (Olivia Cooke) and Lily (Anya Taylor-Joy) drifted apart, but are re-united when Amanda’s mother pays Lily to give her daughter tuition. Lily lives with her mother and dominant stepfather Mark (Paul […]
Movie Review – Finding Your Feet (2017)
Finding Your Feet, 2017. Directed by Richard Loncraine. Starring Imelda Staunton, Timothy Spall, Celia Imrie, Joanna Lumley, Phoebe Nicholls, David Heyman, Josie Lawrence, Sian Thomas, and John Sessions. SYNOPSIS: On the eve of retirement a middle class, judgmental snob discovers her husband has been having an affair with her best friend and is forced […]
