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 […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – The End of Us
The End of Us, 2021. Directed by Henry Loevner and Steven Kanter. Starring Ben Coleman, Ali Vingiano, Derrick DeBlasis, Gadiel Del Orbe, Kate Peterman, Colin Weatherby, Caroline Kwan, Will Neff, Jesse Benjamin, and Claudia Restrepo. SYNOPSIS: After a savage breakup, two exes must continue living together when California issues its stay-at-home order for COVID-19. Now they’ll […]
Stargirl season 2 first look reveals new villain Eclipso
The official Twitter account for Stargirl has shared a first look image from season two of The CW’s DC series, which reveals one of the new villains who’ll be going up against Brec Bassinger’s Courtney Whitmore in Eclipso. Played by Nick Tarabay (Arrow), Eclipso is an ancient entity of corruption and vengeance who is described […]
Movie Review – The Eight Hundred (2020)
The Eight Hundred, 2020. Directed by Guan Hu. Starring Huang Zhizhong, Zhang Junyi, Du Chun, Oho Ou and Tang Yixin. SYNOPSIS: In 1937, a few hundred Chinese soldiers are tasked with defending a Shanghai warehouse from invading Japanese forces. There were many strange and unusual things about 2020 but, for movie fans, one of the […]
