DC Comics releases Batman: Urban Legends #8 this coming Tuesday, and you can check out the official preview of the issue right here… Batwoman: FEAR STATE TIE-IN! Someone has hacked into the Oracle Network and has started spreading information around Gotham—Batman is dead, Cassandra Cain Batgirl is a killer, Fear Toxin is in the air. […]
2021 BFI London Film Festival Review – A Cop Movie
A Cop Movie, 2021. Co-written and directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios. Starring Mónica Del Carmen and Raúl Briones. SYNOPSIS: A radical experiment combining documentary and fictional elements. The film gives voice to one of Mexico’s most controversial institutions: the police force, and unravels the causes of the impunity crisis that plagues the justice system. Alonso Ruizpalacios’ […]
Killer Croc set to appear in Batwoman season 3
While Batman is AWOL from Batwoman, one of the Dark Knight’s adversaries is heading to Gotham City this month for a guest appearance in the third season of The CW’s DC superhero show, with a synopsis for the October 20th episode ‘Loose Tooth’ revealing that a “new incarnation” of Killer Croc is set to clash […]
Jake Gyllenhaal to star in superhero pic Prophet for Extraction‘s Sam Hargrave
You can’t go a few weeks without having Jake Gyllenhaal attached to a new project, let alone another graphic novel adaptation, because following on from the news that he’d signed on to star in Robert Kirkman’s Oblivion Song, the Donnie Darko actor has joined Prophet, a superhero pic from the director of Extraction. Prophet will […]
October Horrors 2021 – The Haunting (1963)
The Haunting, 1963. Directed by Robert Wise. Starring Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson and Russ Tamblyn. SYNOPSIS: A paranormal investigator gathers together a group of people to spend a night in the ominous Hill House as part of an experiment to determine if the building is haunted, oblivious to the terror that awaits them. […]
2021 BFI London Film Festival Review – Clara Sola
Clara Sola, 2021. Co-written and directed by Nathalie Álvarez Mesén. Starring Wendy Chinchilla Araya, Daniel Castañeda Rincón, and Ana Julia Porras Espinoza. SYNOPSIS: In a remote village in Costa Rica, Clara, a withdrawn 40-year-old woman, experiences a sexual and mystical awakening as she begins a journey to free herself from the repressive religious and social […]
Peaky Blinders movie will start filming in 2023, confirms creator Steven Knight
Earlier this year, Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight confirmed that the upcoming sixth series of the hugely popular BBC series will be the final series but the story will continue in film form. Now, during a panel at the BFI London Film Festival (via Variety), Knight not only confirmed that the final season is currently in […]
Marvel’s What If….? Season 1 Finale Review
Martin Carr reviews the season one finale of Marvel’s What If…? This is always the way things were going to go. What If…? has been creating alternate realities for eight weeks, so creatively it made sense to bring that together. With a pimped up Ultron armed to the teeth and almost unstoppable, bringing together these […]
Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley changes composer as Alexandre Desplat departs
Per Variety, Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming adaptation of Nightmare Alley has found a new composer as Alexandre Desplat has departed the project due to scheduling conflicts. According to the outlet, del Toro’s latest feature film will now be composed by Knives Out and Looper composer Nathan Johnson. Desplat has been a recent collaborator with del Toro after he scored the […]
Fear will find you in trailer for horror They’re Outside
Ahead of its digital release in time for Halloween, Terror Films has shared a trailer, poster and images for directors Airell Anthony Hayles and Sam Casserly’s independent horror They’re Outside. The film follows a celebrity psychologist as he finds himself drawn into supernatural events when filming a documentary about an agoraphobic woman, and features a […]