Ouch. It looks like “action-adventure” series Hieroglyph has had its plugged pulled before its even had a chance to switch on with The Hollywood Reporter bringing the news that the show has been cancelled after filming just one episode. According to the website, problems started to show after the first episode was completed with writers […]

With the large cast of J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: Episode VII already announced, it’s hard to imagine that some names may have slipped through the cracks. However according to a new rumor from several sources, Carrie Fisher’s real-life daughter Billie Lourd (who has no acting credits to her name) will also be making the trip to that […]

Sylvester Stallone and his band of geriatric action stars have united on the big screen twice now as The Expendables. The storylines may be generic, and the action may be over the top, but it’s the star power behind the films that really draws in audiences. Stallone has brought such iconic action film stars as Arnold Schwarzenegger, […]

Monster Movie Mondays looks at King Kong Escapes… Director: Ishiro Honda Release date: 1967 Also released as: King Kong, Frankenstein’s Son (Germany) Appearing kaiju: King Kong, Mechani-Kong, Gorosaurus In the early 1960s, Toho struck a deal with American producer John Beck (who was representing Willis O’Brian) to make a movie based on the King Kong character which […]

Ride Along, 2014. Directed by Tim Story. Starring Ice Cube, Kevin Hart, Tika Sumpter, John Leguizamo, Bruce McGill and Laurence Fishburne. SYNOPSIS: Security guard Ben must prove himself to his girlfriend’s brother, top cop James. He rides along James on a 24-hour patrol of Atlanta. Buddy cop films have been hit or miss, going all the […]

It seems Michael Bay’s Transformers: Age of Extinction really is more than meets the eye. Despite a critical panning (including our own ★ review), the fourth instalment of the Transformers franchise has taken a whopping $300 million worldwide in its opening weekend. The film has beaten out Captain America: The Winter Soldier‘s opening weekend of […]

As far as acting chops go, Paul Rudd has what it takes to make the perfect Ant-Man and will likely embody the role of Scott Lang with his trademark comedic stylings. Physically, however, Rudd isn’t the first person you picture when thinking of the word “superhero,” but that’s why they invented Hollywood trainers. Rudd recently […]

Commenting on the Critics with Simon Columb… Vanessa Thorpe and Callum Cuddeford write for The Observer about the pay and conditions in cinemas across London in an article titled “Cinema stars back call to make arts venues pay a living wage”: “Investigations by the Observer this weekend found that several larger London arts venues, such as the […]

Having given up the director’s chair on the fifth instalment of the Transformers franchise, Michael Bay has entered talks with Paramount to direct 13 Hours, a retelling of the terrorist attack on the U.S. Special Mission Compound in Benghazi, Libya on September 11th, 2012. Based on Mitchell Zuckoff’s book Thirteen Hours: A Firsthand Account of […]

Earlier this week, Michael Bay spoke out about critics who didn’t like this latest blockbuster Transformers: Age of Extinction, which has been panned by almost every critic under the sun. In the interview, Bay essestinally said, “haters gonna hate”. While promoting the film in Dublin ahead of its release tomorrow here in the UK, Michael […]