Stung, 2015 Directed by Benni Diez Starring Clifton Collins Jr., Jessica Cook, Lance Henriksen, David Masterson, Matt O’Leary, Cecilia Pillado, Kathleen Renish SYNOPSIS: A fancy garden party turns into upper class prey when a colony of killer wasps mutates into seven foot tall predators. Imagine if you took The Fly, The Thing, Aliens, Eight Legged Freaks […]
Bad Movies & Bad Content: There Has To Be Consequences
Samuel Brace on bad movies on bad content… There has to be consequences for making a bad movie. There just has to. Consequences for bad movies, bad TV shows, bad video games, whatever. If a studio produces a movie, a bad one, one that is below a certain standard, a standard that we are not […]
Ghostbusters animated movie in development at Sony
Having confirmed their plans to build a Ghostbusters expanded universe in the past, Sony Pictures Animation is now reportedly developing an animated Ghostbusters movie. The film’s plot is largely unknown at the time, but The Tracking Board says the film will, much like 1984’s Ghostbusters and Paul Feig’s upcoming Ghostbusters, follow a group of scientists who “team up to […]
Kevin Feige says Captain America: Civil War is “Cap’s story”
With its rather large roster of characters, many worry that Captain America: Civil War will make the titular character a secondary player in his own movie. Despite making claims about this not being the case already, Kevin Feige has reiterated that Captain America: Civil War is a Captain America movie. “It is very much Cap’s story,” […]
59th BFI London Film Festival Opening Gala Review: Suffragette (2015)
Suffragette, 2015. Directed by Sarah Gavron. Starring Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne-Marie Duff, Brendan Gleeson, Ben Whishaw and Meryl Streep. SYNOPSIS: In 1913 London, a young laundress (Mulligan) is swept into the Women’s Vote movement just as it begins to boil into militant activism. Deliberately not a biopic of Emmeline Pankhurst or indeed of any of […]
Film4 FrightFest 2015 Review – Sun Choke (2015)
Sun Choke, 2015 Written and directed by Ben Cresciman Starring Sarah Hagan, Barbara Crampton, Sara Malakul Lane SYNOPSIS: Janie’s just trying to get well. Sun Choke is a movie that questions the very idea of nature vs. nurture. It’s a brutally honest movie with two incredible central performances, and a gripping narrative that won’t let go until its […]
Lionsgate working on a Borderlands movie adaptation
Variety is reporting that Lionsgate is working on bring hit video-game Borderlands to the big screen with producers Ari and Avi Arad. Debuting in 2009, Borderlands has sold over 26 million copies worldwide. Developed and created by Gearbox Software and published by Take-Two Interactive Software and their 2K label, the game is a role-playing first-person […]
Jordan Peele set to write and direct Blumhouse horror-thriller Get Out
Jordan Peele, along with his Key and Peele co-star Keegan-Michael Key, has emerged as one the strongest talents working in comedy today, but for his next project he is set to take on an entirely different genre. According to Variety, Peele has been hired to write and direct an upcoming horror-thriller titled Get Out, which […]
Blu-ray Review – Nightmare City (1980)
Nightmare City (Incubo Sulla Citta Contaminata), 1980. Directed by Umberto Lenzi. Starring Hugo Stiglitz, Laura Trotter, Mel Ferrer, Maria Rosaria Omaggio, Francisco Rabal, Sonia Viviani, Eduardo Fajardo and Ugo Bologna. SYNOPSIS : A mysterious radiation exposed airplane lands, unleashing a deadly crew of blood sucking zombies. A reporter and his doctor wife track their progress on their deadly mission […]
Nathan Fillion expresses interest in playing DC’s Booster Gold
Nathan Fillion may be best known for his roles on such TV shows as Firefly and Castle, but the actor has also been involved with numerous superhero-related projects over the past few years. Fillion, who is a sci-fi icon, has had comic book roles ranging from a prison inmate in James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy to Green […]
