Having made the jump to big budget filmmaker with Thor: The Dark World after honing his skills on the small screen with shows such as Game of Thrones, The Sopranos, Man Men and Boardwalk Empire, director Alan Taylor is currently gearing up for the upcoming Terminator reboot, and with Chris Hemsworth signed on to reprise […]

Anghus Houvouras on the marketing campaign for Ender’s Game and how it’s the perfect example of how not to launch a four quadrant franchise….I hate box office prognostication.  This isn’t a column whose goal is to handicap or accurately guess how much Ender’s Game is going to make.  Our collective fascination with the balance sheet […]

For the past few months it’s been all but official that Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kick-Ass 2, Godzilla) has been lined up to join Earth’s Mightiest Heroes in the role of Quicksilver, and now it finally is official.The Wrap is reporting that Taylor-Johnson has finally closed a deal with Marvel Studios to portray Quicksilver in Joss Whedon’s […]

If you grew up watching Boy Meets World like I did then you probably remember Mr. Jonathan Turner (Anthony Tyler Quinn), the lovable, motorcycle-riding teacher who taught Cory, Shawn and Topanga for three seasons. You also probably remember how Mr. Turner seemed to vanish after season 4. After getting in a terrible motorcycle accident he […]

Every Wednesday, FM writers Simon Columb and Brogan Morris write two short reviews on Woody Allen films … in the hope of watching all his films over the course of roughly 49 weeks. If you have been watching Woody’s films and want to join in, feel free to comment with short reviews yourself! Next up […]

Once he finishes up his directing duties on Mission: Impossible 5, writer-director Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects, Jack Reacher) looks set to turn his attention to the 70s anime sci-fi series Star Blazers, with Deadline reporting that the Oscar-winner has signed on to direct a live-action adaptation for Skydance Productions. Adapted from the Japanese anime […]

Millennium Films has announced that it has given the green light to London Has Fallen, a sequel to this year’s White House action thriller Olympus Has Fallen, which – as you can probably guess by the title – is set to shift the action to the UK capital.According to Screen Daily, the sequel will tell […]

Takashi Miike (Audition, Ichi the Killer, 13 Assassins) has secured financing for his latest Yakuza film The Outsider, which will mark a rare English language outing for the cult Japanese filmmaker. The film is set to star Tom Hardy (Warrior, The Dark Knight Rises, Mad Max: Fury Road) as “a former G.I. in post-WWII Japan […]

Simon Columb attends BFI Southbank’s ‘Gothic: The Dark Heart of Film’ season for a double-bill of Dracula and The Mummy…Define Gothic and Dracula immediately comes to mind. The high-arches and cobwebs, the creatures that scurry across the floor and the long drapes that falls from the ceilings – blood on the tips of fangs and […]

Just this week, we heard from Fede Alvarez, director of this year’s Evil Dead reboot, who stated that Sam Raimi is set to direct the long-awaited fourth instalment of the original series, which is going by the title Army of Darkness 2. Well, while Ash’s next adventure looks set to be moving forward, it seems […]