Anthony Stokes on why Gotham is kind of pointless… I’ve noticed in the geek community there’s often bias towards certain projects. Fanboys will complain about a remake as being pointless. When you get down to it all movies are pointless. It’s entertainment – nobody is going to die if they don’t see Avengers: Age of […]

Back in July, filmmaker Kevin Smith revealed that The Weinstein Company had passed on financing Clerks III, forcing him to look at alternative sources of funding for Dante and Randall’s latest escapade. While that threw the sequel into doubt, Smith has now revealed that he’s managed to secure financing for the film, thanks in no […]

With production on Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror Christmas Special set to get underway this week, Channel 4 has announced that Jon Hamm (Mad Men), Rafe Spall (What If) and Oona Chaplin (Game of Thrones) have all been cast in the feature-length episode. “I am beyond thrilled to be a part of the Black Mirror Christmas […]

Camp X-Ray, 2014. Directed by Peter Sattler. Starring Kristen Stewart, Payman Maadi, Lane Garrison, John Carroll Lynch, Joseph Julian Soria and Cory Michael Smith. SYNOPSIS: A soldier assigned to Guantanamo Bay befriends a man who has been imprisoned there for eight years. Camp X-Ray follows the story of Pvt. Amy Cole (Kristen Stewart) during her […]

Visionary director Nacho Vigalondo impressed audiences with his time travel thiller Timecrimes and his latest movie Open Windows has also been well-received (read our review here). While out talking the movie, Vigalondo talked about an upcoming project he wants to make – a low budget kaiju movie in the same vein as Ishiro Honda did […]

Before you get too excited, this is being reported by UK newspaper The Sunday Mirror and only has quotes from an “unnamed source”, but there are some who are claiming that pop singer Rihanna is being linked to the upcoming 24th Bond movie. Rihanna’s previous acting experience includes the much-maligned Battleship. If the rumours are […]

With less than two weeks to go before its U.S. release IFC Films has debuted a new trailer for Camp X-Ray, writer-director Peter Sattler’s upcoming Guantanamo Bay drama which stars Kristen Stewart (Twilight) as a guard who strikes up an unlikely friendship with a detainee, played by Payman Maadi (A Separation). Also featuring in the […]

Maps to the Stars, 2014. Directed by David Cronenberg. Starring Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska, Robert Pattinson, John Cusack, Olivia Williams, Sarah Gadon and Evan Bird. SYNOPSIS: A tour into the heart of a Hollywood family chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless ghosts of their pasts. Some plot details lie below… Watching Maps To The […]

Those clamoring for a little originality have got to have their interest piqued by the latest film from acclaimed director Alejandro González Iñárritu, Birdman or The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance). The movie stars Michael Keaton as a washed up actor named Riggan Thompson most famous for playing a superhero, kind of like the real Michael Keaton who […]

We’ve already had one Birdman clip this week featuring Michael Keaton (Batman) and Emma Stone (The Amazing Spider-Man 2) [see here], and now we have a second, which you can see below… “Birdman is a black comedy that tells the story of an actor (Michael Keaton) – famous for portraying an iconic superhero – as […]