As part of a promotional tie-in event with the blockbuster Fortnite video game, a new clip from Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker has been released and sees Rey, Finn and Poe infiltrating a First Order Star Destroyer; check it out here… SEE ALSO: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker trailer and TV spot feature […]
Christmas films are a bit rubbish – but that’s okay
Tom Beasley examines the naff world of Christmas cinema, and how little that all matters at the most wonderful time of the year… This is a difficult statement for me to make, but I’m just going to come out with it right up top. A lot of Christmas movies are rubbish. It hurts me to […]
Comic Book Preview – Klaus and the Life and Times of Joe Christmas #1
Boom! Studios releases the new one-shot Klaus and the Life and Times of Joe Christmas #1 from writer Grant Morrison and artist Dan Mora this coming Wednesday, and we’ve got a preview for you here; check it out… In the tradition of Grant Morrison’s 2001 New X-Men Annual, BOOM! Studios presents a widescreen comic that […]
Dormammu almost appeared in Avengers: Endgame
As part of their For Your Consideration campaign for the Academy Awards, Disney and Marvel have released the full screenplay for this year’s blockbuster superhero epic Avengers: Endgame, which reveals that the Doctor Strange villain Dormammu almost made a brief cameo appearance in the movie. On page 77 of the script, during the sequence where […]
Movie Review – A Hidden Life (2019)
A Hidden Life, 2019. Written and Directed by Terrence Malick. Starring August Diehl, Valerie Pachner, Michael Nyqvist, Matthias Schoenaerts, Jürgen Prochnow, Bruno Ganz, Alexander Fehling, Ulrich Matthes, Karl Markovics, Franz Rogowski, Tobias Moretti, Martin Wuttke, Max Mauff, Johan Leysen, Waldemar Kobus, Sophie Rois, Maria Simon, and Nicholas Reinke. SYNOPSIS: The Austrian Blessed Franz Jägerstätter, a […]
Comic Book Preview – Annihilation: Scourge Omega #1
Annihilation: Scourge Omega #1 is out this coming Wednesday, and you can take a look at a preview of the issue here courtesy of Marvel Comics… In the face of the Annihilation, there is no more room in the cosmos for heroes or villains – only survival. Annihilation – Scourge Omega #1 is out on […]
Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite and Greta Gerwig’s Little Women upstage films from legendary veterans Quentin Tarantino and Martin Scorsese with four 2019 CFCA Awards apiece
Last night, my colleagues and friends of the Chicago Film Critics Association got together to announce the lucky winners and, well, they let me down. Adam Sandler lost Best Actor to some other Adam that most definitely will not be seen in any other movies for the rest of the year – an all-around inferior […]
Go behind-the-scenes of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Disney and Lucasfilm have released some eight minutes of behind-the-scenes footage from Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, which gives us a peek at the making of the final chapter of the Skywalker Saga; watch it here, and be sure to head on over to our YouTube channel for a series of interviews with the […]
First look at Keyhouse Manor from Netflix’s Locke & Key
Netflix has released an image from its upcoming TV adaptation of Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez’s IDW comic book series Locke & Key which gives our first look at Keyhouse Manor; take a look here… “After their father is murdered under mysterious circumstances, the three Locke siblings and their mother move into their ancestral home, […]
Scorsese’s The Irishman scores over 26 million views in its first week
It may have been a risky proposition with a budget reportedly in excess of $175 million, but Netflix’s gamble on Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman certainly seems to have paid off with near-unanimous praise from critics, and plenty of awards buzz including five nominations at the Golden Globes. The Irishman also appears to have been a […]
