Edgar Wright (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead) is set to direct a movie remake of the cult 1970’s telemovie and TV series The Night Stalker. Disney Pictures is developing the film as a potential star vehicle for Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean, Alice in Wonderland), who will be […]

Earlier this week Relativity Media and The Weinstein Company issued a press release to announce that they’d reached an out-of-court settlement over the legal dispute concerning the rights to The Crow and now comes word that the two studios are pushing on with their plans to reboot the series. According to Deadline, scriptwriter Jesse Wigutow […]

Oli Davis presents five of the very best film-related uploads from around the world wide web… 5. Horrible Aftermaths Implied By Movies With Happy Endings Cracked are always good for oddly numbered, irrelevant countdowns (Top 6, Top 23, etc). Here is an exercise in extreme geekdom, plotting out what would occur after a film’s climax. […]

Abduction, 2011. Directed by John Singleton. Starring Taylor Lautner, Lily Collins, Sigourney Weaver, Jason Isaacs, Maria Bello, Michael Nyqvist, and Alfred Molina. SYNOPSIS: A youth discovers that the people who raised him aren’t his real parents, a revalation that leaves him running for his life. Abduction is the one of the worst movies I’ve ever […]

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, 2011. Directed by David Fincher. Starring Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer, Stellan Skarsgård, Steven Berkoff, Robin Wright, Joely Richardson, Goran Visnjic and Geraldine James. SYNOPSIS: A journalist teams up with a troubled computer hacker to search for a woman who has been missing for forty years. I must […]

Gael Garcia Bernal (Y Tu Mama Tambien, The Motorcycle Diaries) is set to play the lead role in Zorro Reborn, a sci-fi reimagining of the Zorro mythology that will take place in an apocalyptic wasteland. This futuristic take on the story of the Spanish swordsman will portray him as a masked vigilante fueled by vengeance. […]

Pseudonyms, aliases and stage names are a necessary part of showbiz – especially during those early Hollywood days when budding actors wandered to its gates, their names a concoction of various nationalities, their parents first generation immigrants from Italy, Germany and Ireland. The trick is no less fashionable today, but it appears as though those […]

Jake Peffer on the fourth season of the U.S. comedy series Parks and Recreation… Parks and Recreation has been providing many laughs for three seasons. Can they manage to continue the laughs for the fourth season of the NBC show? In season four, we follow Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler), as she runs for City Council. […]

Justice (a.k.a. Seeking Justice), 2011. Directed by Roger Donaldson. Staring Nicolas Cage, January Jones, Jennifer Carpenter, Guy Pearce, IronE Singleton and Harold Perrineau. SYNOPSIS: When his wife is assaulted, a husband seeks help from a vigilante group in order to get revenge. Nicolas Cage has a tendency to star in a lot of very underwhelming […]

What’s Your Number?, 2011. Directed by Mark Mylod. Starring Anna Faris and Chris Evans. SYNOPSIS: After losing her job, a young woman decides to track down all of her past relationships to see if one might have been her true love. Anna Faris is known for being funny but her movies tend not to reflect […]