Ahead of its release next month, A24 films has released a new trailer for writer-director Adam Rifkin’s upcoming drama The Last Movie Star. Previously titled Dog Days, it made its world premiere last year at the Tribeca Film Festival, receiving positive reviews from critics. The film sees Burt Reynolds leading a cast that includes Chevy […]
DVD Review – Beyond the Woods (2018)
Beyond the Woods, 2018. Directed by Sean Breathnach. Starring John Ryan Howard, Mark Lawrence, Sean McGillicuddy, Ross Mac Mahon, Claire J. Loy, Alan Riordan, and Irene Kelleher. SYNOPSIS: Seven people stay in a secluded holiday cottage near where a sinkhole has opened up, unleashing evil forces into the area. The first full-length feature for writer/director […]
Could we ever see a Marvel vs DC movie?
George Chrysostomou on whether we could ever get to a Marvel vs DC movie… It is often thought that a Marvel vs. DC film is a long shot, with very little probability of becoming made. Many point to studio executives and/or legal issues as the main reasons as to why there is no chance that […]
First trailer for Where Is Kyra? starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Kiefer Sutherland
Ahead of its US limited release this April, a poster and trailer have arrived online for director Andrew Dosunmu’s upcoming drama Where Is Kyra? which stars Michelle Pfeiffer and Kiefer Sutherland; take a look below… “Where is Kyra? tells the story of Kyra Johnson, a middle-aged divorcee who moves into her elderly mother’s Brooklyn apartment while she […]
Movie Review – The Shape of Water (2017)
The Shape of Water, 2017. Directed by Guillermo del Toro. Starring Sally Hawkins, Doug Jones, Michael Shannon, Octavia Spencer, Richard Jenkins, Michael Stuhlbarg, Nick Searcy, and David Hewlett. SYNOPSIS: At a top-secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity. The […]
Movie Review – Loveless (2017)
Loveless, 2017. Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev. Starring Maryana Spivak, Aleksey Rozin, and Matvey Novikov. SYNOPSIS: A couple going through a divorce must team up to find their son who has disappeared during one of their bitter arguments. Loveless issues two stark warnings to its audience: don’t let your resentment for another render you without love […]
Soska Sisters’ remake of David Cronenberg’s Rabid to shoot in April
Back in February of 2016, it was announced that the Soska sisters Jen and Sylvia Soska (American Mary, Dead Hooker in a Trunk) would be remaking David Cronenberg’s classic 1977 horror Rabid, and now THR is reporting that the project will begin production in April. Shout! Studios has picked up the U.S. rights to the reboot, which […]
Keira Knightley to leak Official Secrets for director Gavin Hood
Oscar-nominated actress Keira Knightley is set to take on the role of GCHQ whileblower Katharine Gun in Official Secrets, a new film from director Gavin Hood (Eye in the Sky), which also has Matt Smith attached to star. Gun was working as a Mandarin translator at the British government’s communications HQ, GCHQ, when she leaked a confidential […]
Blu-ray Review – Scalpel (1977)
Scalpel, 1977. Directed by John Grissmer. Starring Robert Lansing, Judith Chapman, Arlen Dean Snyder, David Scarroll, and Sandy Martin. SYNOPSIS: A psychopathic plastic surgeon tries to claim a huge inheritance by transforming the face of an accident victim into that of his missing daughter. John Grissmer’s debut feature Scalpel is an odd one. Odd because, […]
Anne Hathaway to star in Mudbound helmer Dee Rees’ The Last Thing He Wanted
According to Variety, Anne Hathaway is in talks to star in The Last Thing He Wanted, the next project for Mudbound director Dee Rees. Based on Joan Didion’s political thriller novel, The Last Thing He Wanted is described as “a thrilling story of one woman, alone and unrelenting in a race against time” and sees […]
