The Peanuts Movie, 2015. Directed by Steve Martino. Starring Bill Melendez, Noah Schnapp, Francesca Capaldi, Hadley Belle Miller, Alexander Garfin, Anastasia Bredikhina, Rebecca Bloom, Noah Johnston, Venus Schultheis, Mariel Sheets, A.J. Tecce, Kristin Chenoweth, and Trombone Shorty. SYNOPSIS: Snoopy embarks upon his greatest mission as he and his team take to the skies to pursue […]
29th Leeds International Film Festival Review – The Witch (2015)
The Witch, 2015. Directed by Robert Eggers. Starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson and Kate Dickie. SYNOPSIS: A family of settlers is slowly torn apart by supernatural forces in 1630s New England. ‘The scariest film of all time / the year / in decades’ is a phrase that appears on the posters of every single horror […]
A Bad Weekend At The Box Office
This week, Neil Calloway looks at a bad weekend at the US box office… As Spectre took box office records in Europe on an upside down helicopter ride, then blew up their desert base last weekend, things at the US box office were a very different matter. The latest Bond didn’t open in America until […]
The Week in Star Wars – New footage from The Force Awakens, new character posters, no more Slave Leia merchandise and more
In this edition of The Week in Star Wars, we have new character posters, comments from Daisy Ridley and John Boyega about The Force Awakens and a rumour about Disney’s plans for the future of Slave Leia…J.J. Abrams previously said that there won’t be anymore trailers for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but a new Japanese […]
Movie Review – Black Souls (2015)
Black Souls, 2015. Directed by Francesco Munzi. Starring Marco Leonardi, Peppino Mazzotta and Fabrizio Ferracane. SYNOPSIS: The story of three brothers, the sons of a shepherd, close to the ndrangheta and of their divided souls. Tantalisingly steady in its pace, Black Souls toys with the idea of classical Mafia crime drama, subverting its stereotypical themes […]
Johnny Depp to star in Gnomeo & Juliet sequel Sherlock Gnomes
The Wrap is reporting that Johnny Depp has signed on to lend his voice to the title character in Paramount and MGM’s animated mvoie Sherlock Gnomes, a follow-up to the 2011 film Gnomeo & Juliet.The sequel “takes place after a string of garden gnome disappearances in London, as Gnomeo and Juliet look to legendary detective […]
Jason Statham to star in Kurt Wimmer-penned Hong Kong action-thriller
British action star Jason Statham has signed on to star in a new action thriller from writer Kurt Wimmer (Salt, Total Recall, Point Break), which is centered around an Ex-Pat Brit in Hong Kong who goes on the run with a high-level female Chinese agent to solve a kidnapping with global implications. “Jason and I […]
George Miller rules out Mel Gibson cameo in Mad Max: Fury Road sequel
With Tom Hardy having taken on the role of Max Rockatansky for this year’s Mad Max: Fury Road and its subsequent planned sequels, Deadline has asked director George Miller about the chances of Mel Gibson popping up for a cameo in a future instalment, and it’s not good news for Gibson fans hoping to see […]
Alicia Vikander reportedly favorite to replace Rooney Mara in Girl with the Dragon Tattoo sequel
A few days ago it was announced that Sony is looking to relaunch its Girl with a Dragon Tattoo series by adapting the fourth book in the series, The Girl in the Spider’s Web, albeit without director David Fincher and stars Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig.According to The Wrap, the studio has now identified Alicia […]
The Week in Disappointment – Quentin Tarantino, 478, Warcraft, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Fantastic Four, Bond, The Girl on the Train
Anghus Houvouras with this week’s disappointments from the entertainment world…“Quentin Tarantino calls Police ‘murderers’”This story is both disappointing and ludicrous. It’s odd on so many levels, like a layer cake made of embarrassment and iced with awkwardness. You have Quentin Tarantino, The ultimate white-guy-who-thinks-he’s-black talking smack about the Police, as if he has any real […]
