Just a few months ago it was revealed that the original choice for Paddington Bear, Colin Firth, had a conscious uncoupling with the filmmakers of the upcoming big screen adaptation. They both felt that he was wrong for the role in the upcoming movie and Firth graciously dropped out of the project, with Ben Whishaw […]

According to several outlets, Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones alum Michelle MacLaren is in talks to direct the Wonder Woman film starring Gal Gadot. Her name appeared on a recent shortlist that included other female directors, including Kathryn Bigelow, Deep Impact‘s Mimi Leder, and Twilight‘s Catherine Hardwicke. I’m personally a huge fan of MacLaren’s, and will be more […]

Thomas Roach on whether 2017 is too soon for a Wonder Woman movie… It has been announced that Wonder Woman will be getting a solo movie in 2017 and frankly I think that is too soon. Sure DC and Warner Bros. want to produce as many films as possible to catch up with Marvel’s Cinematic […]

Kris Wall reviews The Evil Within…. Shinji Mikami is regularly hailed as ‘The Godfather of Horror Gaming’, it’s a weighty title but when you consider this is the man that created the survival horror genre in the Resident Evil series, it’s more than merited. Since then he’s gone on to create, direct, produce and supervise […]

Not only is he a multi Oscar nominated actor but recently Leonardo DiCaprio has been working hard behind the scenes and his latest venture Virunga – which he is executive producing – will see him team up with streaming giants Netflix. Virunga is a feature documentary that tells the story of the ‘conflict between park rangers […]

Disney have been hard at work rebooting and remaking some of their classic movies recently and next on the list is Pete’s Dragon. According to THR Robert Redford is in early talks to join the fray as a local who ‘tells tall tales involving dragons that no-one believes’. The remake of the 1977 classic will […]

The Last Showing, 2014 Written and Directed by Phil Hawkins Starring Robert Englund, Finn Jones, Emily Berrington, Keith Allen, Malachi Kirby and Chris Geere SYNOPSIS: A couple trapped in a cinema are manipulated into becoming unwilling actors in a film being captured by CCTV cameras. There are movies that are saved by their premise and there […]

School of Rock is heading to the small screen courtesy of Nickelodeon. The movie’s director Richard Linklater and producer Scott Rudkin will serve as executive producers on the project alongside Jim and Steve Armogida (Crash & Bernstein) Released in 2003, School of Rock saw a down-on-his-luck musician pose as a school teacher to make some money. But […]

Well, this is interesting news! Sony may be experiencing some problems with their Amazing Spider-Man franchise, as seen by the latest delay that pushes The Amazing Spider-Man 3 to 2018, but they’re working hard on establishing the universe around the wall-crawler, beginning with The Sinister Six in 2016. And on top of that, Deadline is now reporting that Sony has greenlit a Spider-Man spinoff featuring […]

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, 2014. Directed by Matt Reeves. Starring Andy Serkis, Jason Clarke, Gary Oldman, Keri Russell, Toby Kebbell, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Nick Thurston, Terry Notary and Karin Konoval. SYNOPSIS: In the wake of a disaster that changed the world, the growing and genetically evolving apes find themselves at a critical point with […]