Gary Collinson examines the silent film career of Alfred Hitchcock… “In many of the films now being made, there is very little cinema: they are mostly what I call ‘photographs of people talking’. When we tell a story in the cinema, we should resort to dialogue only when it’s impossible to do otherwise.” – Alfred […]
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker passes $900 million at the global box office
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker continues its march towards the billion dollar mark at the global box office, with Disney and Lucasfilm’s blockbuster pushing its worldwide haul to $918.8 million after three weekends on screens. Rise of Skywalker managed to make it three in a row at the top of the North American box […]
Deathstroke: Knights & Dragons animated series to premiere this Monday
Last summer, The CW revealed that it was working on a new animated DC series revolving around the fan favourite character of Slade Wilson, and now it has announced that Deathstroke: Knights & Dragons is set to premiere this Monday, January 6th on the digital platform CW Seed. The twelve-episode series will see Michael Chiklis […]
Simon Pegg doesn’t think the NuTrek cast will appear in Noah Hawley’s Star Trek movie
Back in November it was announced that Paramount Pictures and Bad Robot’s plans for a fourth Star Trek movie were back on track, with Fargo and Legion creator Noah Hawley signing on to write and direct a fourth outing for the rebooted Kelvin timeline crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise. However, speaking to GoldDerby, actor Simon […]
2019 in Review: Revisiting cinema’s biggest releases, news and talking points
Tom Jolliffe looks back at 2019 in film… Whilst we all come to terms with deleting and retyping 19 as 20 on documents, letters, invoices etc, lets make time to look back at 2019 and further confuse matters. As a year of cinema, 2019 has been interesting and with a usual mix of pop culture […]
Movie Review – Three Christs (2020)
Three Christs, 2020. Directed by Jon Avnet. Starring Walton Goggins, Peter Dinklage, Richard Gere, Julianna Margulies, Bradley Whitford, Charlotte Hope, Christina Scherer, Jane Alexander, Kathryn Leigh Scott, and Julian Acosta. SYNOPSIS: Three Christs follows Dr. Alan Stone who is treating three paranoid schizophrenic patients at the Ypsilanti State Hospital in Michigan, each of whom believed […]
Diana races into action in Wonder Woman 1984 image
Gal Gadot reprises the role of Diana Prince this year for Warner Bros. and DC Films’ Wonder Woman 1984, and a new image from the DC superhero sequel has been released which sees the Amazon Princess racing into action in Washington, D.C.; check it out here… SEE ALSO: Gal Gadot explains why Diana doesn’t have her […]
Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith fight choreographer discusses the inspirations behind the “high ground” line
Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith fight choreographer Nick Gillard has spoken out regarding the lightsaber duel between Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) and Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) – in particular, Obi-Wan’s line about having “the high ground.” In a recent interview with IGN, Gillard revealed the line stemmed from a behind-the-scenes scenario between him and Hayden when they […]
Exclusive Interview: Tristan Versluis, Prosthetic Designer on 1917
Tai Freligh chats with 1917 prosthetic designer Tristan Versluis… Tristan Versluis started his career working on cult favourites such as Dead Man’s Shoes, Hot Fuzz, Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd and Valhalla Rising. Tristan was also part of the Dr Who creature effects team between 2005-2007. He has since worked on blockbuster films such as Harry […]
Martin Scorsese says he almost quit making films during The Aviator
Martin Scorsese has claimed he almost quit making movies during 2004’s The Aviator, which was his second collaboration with Leonardo DiCaprio. In a recent interview with The New York Times, the 77-year old filmmaker said he almost walked away from the industry during the post-production phase of The Aviator. “The last two weeks of editing […]
