With Netflix’s The Punisher on the horizon, James Turner looks back at the previous live-action adaptations of the Punisher to see why they failed… The Punisher (1989) Rotten Tomatoes rating: 28% Let’s get the worst of the bunch out of the way first. Set five years after the murder of his family, Frank Castle, known to […]
Rob Liefeld meets Cable in Deadpool 2 set photo
The time travelling mutant Cable is set to make his big screen debut next year as Josh Brolin takes on the role in 20th Century Fox’s hotly-anticipated sequel Deadpool 2. The character’s co-creator Rob Liefeld has taken to Instagram to share a set photo of himself alongside Brolin in costume as Nathan Summers, during which […]
Poster and trailer for high school comedy F the Prom
The Orchard has released a poster and trailer for F the Prom, a new high school comedy which marks the first feature from Fine Brothers Entertainment and features a cast that includes Danielle Campbell (The Originals), Joel Courtney (Super 8), Madelaine Petsch (Riverdale), Ian Ziering (Sharknado), Cheri Oteri (Saturday Night Live) Meg DeLacy (Side Effects), […]
Movie Review – Cannibals and Carpet Fitters (2017)
Cannibals and Carpet Fitters, 2017. Directed by James Bushe. Starring Darren Sean Enright, Richard Lee O’Donnell, Zara Phythian, Christopher Whitlow, Alex Zane and Jenny Stokes. SYNOPSIS: An unfortunate combination of customer dissatisfaction, managerial impotency and employee laziness has resulted in Cupid Carpets falling on hard times. As a result, Nigel (the firm’s desperate, but ultimately […]
Trailer for Lies We Tell starring Gabriel Byrne, Harvey Keitel and Sibylla Deen
A new poster and trailer have arrived online for the upcoming thriller Lies We Tell. Directed by Mitu Misra, the film stars Gabriel Byrne, Harvey Keitel and Sibylla Deen; take a look below… “When his billionaire boss Demi (Harvey Keitel) dies, chauffeur Donald (Gabriel Byrne) is given one final job – to wipe out any […]
Matthew Modine and James Earl Jones join Foster Boy
Variety is reporting that Matthew Modine (Stranger Things), James Earl Jones (The Lion King) and newcomer Shane Paul McGhie are set to star in the indie drama Foster Boy, which is being directed by Youssef Delara (The Bounce Back) from a script by attorney-turned-screenwriter Jay Paul Deratany. Foster Boy is based on Deratany’s own experiences as a […]
Survival thriller Desolation gets a poster and trailer
Ahead of its US release next month, a poster and trailer have arrived online for director Sam Patton’s upcoming survival thriller Desolation which stars Jaimi Page, Toby Nichols, Alyshia Ochse, and Claude Duhamel; check them out below… After the death of her husband, Abby (Jaimi Page), her son, Sam (Toby Nichols) and best friend, Jen […]
Watch the trailer for action fantasy Babes with Blades
Breaking Glass Pictures has announced that it has acquired distribution rights to the steampunk action-fantasy Babes with Blades, which features a cast that includes Cecily Fay (Prometheus, The Huntsman: Winter’s War, Star Wars), Lauren Okadigbo (Justice League, Wonder Woman), Yennis Cheung (Skyfall, Death Race 4), and punk icon John Robb. Check out the poster, synopsis […]
Thor: Ragnarok was originally going to feature a romance between Thor and Valkyrie
When it was first revealed that Natalie Portman’s Jane Foster would be absent from Thor: Ragnarok, many assumed that Tessa Thompson’s Valkyrie would be taking the spot of Thor’s new love interested in the Marvel blockbuster. However, as it turned out, that wasn’t the case – although screenwriter Eric Pearson has revealed to Yahoo! that […]
Batman: Gotham By Gaslight animated movie gets a trailer, cover art and cast
IGN has revealed a trailer for the DC Universe Animated Original Movie Batman: Gotham By Gaslight, the upcoming adaptation of Brian Augustyn and Mike Mignola’s 1989 one-shot of the same name; check it out below… “An adaptation of the popular 1989 tale that introduced us to a Victorian Era Dark Knight who was in pursuit of […]
