Chernobyl Diaries, 2012. Directed by Bradley Parker. Starring Jesse McCartney, Jonathan Sadowski, Olivia Taylor Dudley, Devin Kelley, Nathan Phillips, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, and Dimitri Diatchenko. SYNOPSIS: Six ‘extreme’ tourists discover they are not alone during an illegal visit to the abandoned city of Prypiat in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. I’ll be honest; I went to […]

Phantasm II, 1988. Directed by Don Coscarelli. Starring James LeGros, Paula Irvine, Reggie Bannister and Angus Scrimm. SYNOPSIS: Six years later and people are still going missing – could the mortician have returned? Or did he never leave in the first place? It took almost a decade before audiences were able to return to the […]

The Woman in Black, 2012. Directed by James Watkins. Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Janet McTeer, Ciarán Hinds, Sophie Stuckey and Liz White. SYNOPSIS: Young lawyer Arthur Kipps travels to a small village to settle the affairs of the lady of Eel Marsh House, to discover the villagers are tormented by a very vengeful ghost. The Woman […]

The Reptile, 1966. Directed by John Gilling. Starring Noel Willman, Jacqueline Pearce, Ray Barrett, Jennifer Daniel and Michael Ripper. SYNOPSIS: Following the mysterious death of his brother, Harry Spalding (Ray Barrett) and his wife Valerie (Jennifer Daniel) move to an inherited cottage in small Cornish village with a dark secret. It is always refreshing to […]

The Plague of the Zombies, 1966. Directed by John Gilling. Starring André Morell, John Carson, Jacqueline Pearce, Brook Williams and Michael Ripper. SYNOPSIS: As a mysterious plague ravagers a remote 19-century Cornish village, two scientists desperately search for an antidote, only to discover a world of black magic and a legion of flesh eating zombies. […]

A Bronx Tale, 1993. Directed by Robert De Niro. Starring Robert De Niro, Chazz Palminteri, Lillo Brancato, Jr., Francis Capra, Taral Hicks and Kathrine Narducci. SYNOPSIS: After witnessing a murder and refusing to identify the killer, a young boy is taken under the wing of a local mob boss who gradually introduces him to a […]

Rock of Ages, 2012. Directed by Adam Shankman. Starring Julianne Hough, Diego Boneta, Tom Cruise, Paul Giamatti, Russell Brand, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Malin Akerman, Bryan Cranston, Alec Baldwin and Mary J. Blige. SYNOPSIS: A small town girl and a city boy meet on the Sunset Strip, while pursuing their Hollywood dreams. The cinematic musical is a […]

Last week we heard from Wade Wilson himself, Ryan Reynolds, who offered up a few words about the long-in-development Deadpool movie, stating that the script is “so, so far into the R-rated zone [that] I don’t know if [Fox] would ever risk their reputation doing it.” Well, now screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (G.I. […]

Tom Jolliffe on the male acting performances criminally overlooked by the Academy for Oscar recognition… With the Oscars around the corner and awards season in full swing, now is a perfect opportunity to tearfully remember those performances that were completely overlooked by the Academy. Reasons can differ. Sometimes a year is bloated with exceptional performances […]

Last week we reported how Warner Bros. were concerned about the possibility of Justice League and felt that the movies progression hinged on the box office success of Zack Snyder’s upcoming Man of Steel. According to Badass Digest, it seems WB may not be pushing forward with the project at all. Although the movie was […]