Anghus Houvouras with three reasons why Adam Driver is good for Star Wars: Episode VII…. Like a lot of you, I was a much bigger Star Wars fan before the prequels.  George Lucas’ ugly, garish, and wooden trips to a galaxy far, far away took a lot of luster off the lightsaber.  Since the Disney […]

According to Deadline, A Good Day to Die Hard star Jai Courtney and Boyd Holbrook, star of the upcoming western Jane Got A Gun, are the final actors in the running for the role of Kyle Reese in Terminator: Genesis. The part was previously played by Michael Biehn in the 1984 original and Anton Yelchin […]

Commenting on the Critics with Simon Columb… In an article praising Paul Verhoeven’s original RoboCop, Tim Robey writes… “RoboCop was a smash hit 27 years ago … And it has become an iconic touchstone of pulpy, provocative, giddily violent mainstream cinema, so much so that news of a remake – which reaches our screens this […]

Luc Besson is wasting little time in moving ahead with his plans to reboot The Transporter franchise; after announcing last week at the Berlin franchise that he plans to explore the origin of Frank Martin with The Transporter 4, it’s now been revealed that Ed Skrein (Ill Manors, Game of Thrones) will succeed  – or […]

With The CW bringing together most of its cast for The Flash pilot over the past couple of weeks, Fox has now started the ball rolling on its own upcoming DC pilot Gotham, with Ben McKenzie (The O.C., Southland) signing on to play Detective James Gordon. McKenzie is no stranger to the world of DC […]

“Oh hi Mark!” – One of the many, many “classic” quotes from Tommy Wiseau’s cult favourite The Room there. Since it’s original debut back in 2003, The Room has taken on a new life that has seen millions fall in love with it, attending various screenings of the film, meeting Wiseau and his co-stars, and […]

Long gestating since the original was released to over $817 million worldwide in 1996, becoming that year’s top-grossing movie, it seems director Roland Emmerich and producer Dean Devlin are pushing ever closer to making Independence Day 2 (and 3) a reality. One of the biggest sticking points of the sequel was whether Will Smith, star […]

One of the most recent troubled productions in Hollywood, it looks like Black Mass is finally going into production this summer. Johnny Depp (The Lone Ranger) had long been rumoured to be involved in the film, with Barry Levinson (Rain Man) set to direct and Joel Edgerton (The Great Gatsby) set to co-star. But after […]

In the third of a three-part Jackson Ball discusses the evolving Disney Princess, last up is Frozen…. Moving towards the contemporary end of Disney’s animated timeline, this essay’s final focus film is 2013’s Frozen. Despite being nearly 70 years later, the film meets many of the criteria first set by Snow White and the Seven […]

Frances Ha, 2012. Directed by Noah Baumbach.Starring Greta Gerwig, Mickey Sumner, Adam Driver, Michael Zegen, Charlotte d’Amboise and Grace Gummer. SYNOPSIS: A story that follows a New York woman (who doesn’t really have an apartment), apprentices for a dance company (though she’s not really a dancer), and throws herself headlong into her dreams, even as […]