The Last Keepers, 2013. Directed by Maggie Greenwald. Starring Aidan Quinn, Virginia Madsen, Olympia Dukakis and Zosia Mamet. SYNOPSIS: A young woman and her family discover she has magical powers, possibly fulfilling a prophecy that has been in their family for years. She must negotiate that with the everyday tribulations of school and growing up. […]

The Patrol, 2013. Written and Directed by Tom Petch. Starring Owain Arthur, Nicholas Beveney, Daniel Fraser, Alex McNally, Oliver Mott, Ben Righton and Nav Sidhu. SYNOPSIS: When a Special Forces Operation prompts a Taliban counter attack in Helmand Province, the unit’s three-day patrol hits double figures. Faced with low ammunition, injury and rising tensions under […]

Cult Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike (Audition, Ichi the Killer) is heading back to his exploitation roots for a yakuza vampire movie entitled Yakuza Apocalypse: The Great War of the Underworld. “Say good-bye to wimpy and boring Japanese movies,” said Miike in a statement announcing the new film. “Nobody asked me, but I’ve decided on my […]

Leave The World Behind, 2014. Directed by Christian Larson. Starring Axel Hedfors, Sebastian Ingrosso, Steve Angello. SYNOPSIS: A documentary from Christian Larson following Swedish House Mafia on ‘One Last Tour’ before the band split up as they had previously announced. Like John Travolta, I got chills and they’re multiplying. It was not the sight of Olivia […]

It’s fair to say that 20th Century Fox’s upcoming reboot of The Fantastic Four hasn’t had the smoothest of rides with fans of Marvel’s First Family so far, but the studio certainly has high hopes for the film, having already announced a 2017 release date for The Fantastic Four 2. And now, as cameras roll […]

Writer-producer Simon Kinberg has spoken about the upcoming reboot The Fantastic Four whilst promoting the home entertainment release of X-Men: Days of Future Past, specifically when we might expect to see the first footage from the film… “We’re putting it together now, and one of the important things, because this Fantastic Four is a reboot, […]

With filming now underway on director Josh Trank’s (Chronicle) reboot of The Fantastic Four, writer and producer Simon Kinberg (X-Men: Days of Future Past) has spoken to Collider about Fox’s latest take on Marvel’s First Family. As well as confirming it will be post-converted into 3D, Kinberg once again promised a “realistic” and “grounded” tone… […]

With the release of X-Men: Days of Future Past, writer-producer Simon Kinberg has been busy on the promotional trail for the mutant superhero sequel, although he’s spent much of his time talking about Fox’s next X-Men release X-Men: Apocalypse [see here, here, here and here]. However, X-Men isn’t the only Marvel property under Fox’s control, […]

If you’re yet to see The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and really don’t want to be spoiled, then you ought to stop reading and turn back now. Seriously. Major spoilers follow. You have been warned… Well, after a couple of years of rampant speculation, and a marketing campaign that pretty much gave it away anyway, Sony […]

Commenting on the Critics with Simon Columb… This week had a free-for-all on Pierce Brosnan’s tenure as James Bond after he, himself, revealed it wasn’t “good enough”. Horatio Harrod conducted the interview for The Telegraph… “His feelings towards the role are equivocal. “I felt I was caught in a time warp between Roger and Sean,” […]