Andrew Newton on the video games we were playing back in the day… To say the March of 1981 in the UK was an average month was a bit of an understatement. The weather was miserable and wet (being the second wettest March on record in England), unemployment was high and lots of people were […]
Godzilla vs Kong tipped for largest pandemic opening weekend at the box office
With the moviegoing hotbeds of New York and Los Angeles slowly opening up their theatres again, it appears that Warner Bros. and Legendary’s Godzilla vs. Kong is ready to trample over similar giant cityscapes on its way towards a pandemic-best opening at the box-office. The Hollywood Reporter’s exclusive story suggests that ‘moviegoing confidence hits highest […]
HBO’s The Last of Us series will adapt dialogue from original game while deviating greatly in story for some episodes
Last year, it was announced that HBO and PlayStation Productions were adapting the hit PlayStation video game The Last of Us into a television series, and now, game director Neil Druckmann has offered an update on the project. In an interview with IGN during SXSW 2021, Druckmann revealed that the upcoming HBO series will adapt dialogue […]
Movie Review – Nobody (2021)
Nobody, 2021. Directed by Ilya Naishuller. Starring Bob Odenkirk, Christopher Lloyd, Connie Nielsen, J.P. Manoux, RZA, Michael Ironside, Colin Salmon, Billy MacLellan, Araya Mengesha, Gage Munroe, Paisley Cadorath, Aleksandr Pal, Humberly González, Edsson Morales, and Aleksey Serebryakov. SYNOPSIS: A bystander who intervenes to help a woman being harassed by a group of men becomes the […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson
The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson, 2021. Written and directed by Leah Purcell. Starring Leah Purcell, Rob Collins, Sam Reid, Jessica De Gouw, and Malachi Dower-Roberts. SYNOPSIS: A lonely bushwoman struggles to raise her children and run the family farm while her husband is away. The western genre is so seemingly, inextricably intertwined […]
Agent 47 will have a “full head of hair” in the Hitman TV series adaptation, says writer Derek Kolstad
Back in 2017, Hulu announced that John Wick creator Derek Kolstad had been approached to write the script for the pilot episode for a Hitman TV series based on the bestselling video game. Now, in an interview with Collider, Kolstad revealed that not only did he wrote the first two episodes of the series but Agent […]
IDW announces Sonic the Hedgehog 30th Anniversary comic book special
SEGA’s iconic mascot Sonic the Hedgehog is celebrating three decades this year, and IDW Publishing has announced that it will mark the occasion this June with the release of Sonic the Hedgehog 30th Anniversary Special, a super-sized 80-page comic book featuring three brand new adventures. The issue will feature stories from New York Times bestselling […]
Borat, Promising Young Woman, and Ted Lasso win big at the WGA Awards
The 73rd Writers Guild of America Awards took place on Sunday night and the results have gone some way to cementing Borat Subsequent Moviefilm and Promising Young Woman as the screenplay favourites as far as the Academy Awards are concerned. In a virtual ceremony hosted by Kal Penn, Amazon Studios’ Borat took the adapted screenplay […]
American Gods Season 3 Finale Review – ‘Tears of the Wrath-Bearing Tree’
Martin Carr reviews the season 3 finale of American Gods… Seedy summit meetings attended by undesirable people of power happen every day. A gathering of individuals with opposing ideologies come together in order to gain an advantage. Agendas are cloaked, intentions diverse and wriggle room minimal. In the aftermath of Laura Moon’s assassination attempt diplomacy […]
It Chapter Two star James Ransone reuniting with director Scott Derrickson on Blumhouse’s The Black Phone
The upcoming Blumhouse and Universal project The Black Phone, an adaptation of the horror short story by Joe Hill from director Scott Derrickson (Sinister, Doctor Strange), has added another member to its cast. According to The Hollywood Reporter, IT Chapter Two star James Ransone will be reuniting with Derrickson for the upcoming horror film after appearing […]
