The Most Beautiful Boy in the World, 2021. Directed by Kristina Lindström and Kristian Petri. Featuring Björn Andrésen. SYNOPSIS: In 1971, at the world premiere of Death in Venice, Italian director Lucino Visconti proclaims his Tadzio as “the world’s most beautiful boy.” A shadow that today, 50 years later, weighs on Björn Andresen’s life. If Alex […]
Donnie Darko director says James Cameron inspired him to develop a sequel
Richard Kelly, the director of Donnie Darko, says his inspiration for writing a follow up was the encouragement of James Cameron. When James Cameron tells you to do something, you do it, especially when it comes to filmmaking. The iconic director of Titanic, Terminator, Avatar and more, knows what he’s doing. Donnie Darko director Richard […]
Comic Book Preview – Star Wars: The High Republic #2
Marvel’s Star Wars: The High Republic comic book series continues this coming Wednesday with the release of the second issue; check out the official preview here… ALL-NEW SERIES CONTINUES! WHO DESTROYED ONE OF THE JEDI’S DEADLIEST ENEMIES? The NIHIL strike! A ship found adrift in space, the crew brutally slaughtered and cargo stolen. What terror […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Cryptozoo
Cryptozoo, 2021. Written and directed by Dash Shaw. Starring Lake Bell, Michael Cera, Angeliki Papoulia, Zoe Kazan, Peter Stormare, Grace Zabriskie, Louisa Krause, and Thomas Jay Ryan. SYNOPSIS: Cryptozookeepers try to capture a baku, a dream-eating hybrid creature of legend, and start wondering if they should display these beasts or keep them hidden and unknown. Cryptozoo […]
Sam Esmail gives an update on Peacock’s Battlestar Galactica reboot
It’s been almost a year and a half since it was announced that Mr. Robot and Homecoming creator Sam Esmail is teaming with NBC Universal for a reboot of the Battlestar Galactica franchise for the Peacock streaming service, but it seems that fans still face a lengthy wait before we see the new series coming […]
Comic Book Preview – Future State: The Next Batman #3
Future State: The Next Batman #3 is out this Wednesday, and we’ve got the official preview for you here courtesy of DC Comics… The adventures of the next Batman continue! Batman has captured a pair of murderous fugitives, but he faces a tough decision: leave them for the Magistrate troops, which means certain death, or […]
Star Wars: Doctor Aphra #7 gets second printing variant featuring Lady Proxima
Having sold out everywhere this past week, Marvel has announced that writer Alyssa Wong and artist Minkyu Jung’s Star Wars: Doctor Aphra #7 is going back to the presses for a second printing, complete with a new variant cover from Jung which sees Doctor Aphra and Sana Starros alongside the Corellian gangster Lady Proxima. THE […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Homeroom
Homeroom, 2021. Directed by Peter Nicks. SYNOPSIS: Oakland as a tantalising case study. In a city that struggles with rising crime and health care woes, its public school systems aren’t exactly equipped to prepare youth for the travails of young adulthood. Director Peter Nicks’ (Waiting Room, The Force) observational documentary Homeroom affords a group of youngsters the […]
Marvel’s WandaVision – Episode 4 Review
Martin Carr reviews the fourth episode of Marvel’s WandaVision… We are not in Kansas anymore, as Marvel goes full Cinematic Universe with added Easter eggs. Using flashback to tie things together, WandaVision broadens the narrative canvas, introduces new chess pieces into play and goes more than a little meta. Links are forged to entries in […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Censor
Censor, 2021. Co-written and directed by Prano Bailey-Bond. Starring Niamh Algar, Nicholas Burns, Vincent Franklin, Sophia La Porta, Adrian Schiller, and Michael Smiley. SYNOPSIS: After viewing a strangely familiar video nasty, Enid, a film censor, sets out to solve the past mystery of her sister’s disappearance, embarking on a quest that dissolves the line between fiction […]
