Cold War, 2018. Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski. Starring Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza, Cédric Kahn, Jeanne Balibar, and Adam Woronowicz. SYNOPSIS: A passionate love story between two people of different backgrounds and temperaments, who are fatefully mismatched, set against the background of the Cold War in the 1950s in Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia […]
John Green adaptation Turtles All the Way Down finds a director
Fox 2000 has enlisted actress and filmmaker Hannah Marks (After Everything) to direct Turtles All the Way Down, the latest feature film adaptation from YA author John Green (Paper Towns, The Fault in Our Stars). The film has been scripted by Elizabeth Berger and Isaac Aptaker and will follow Aza, “a 16-year-old girl with OCD […]
Rumour: Smallville’s John Glover will appear in DC’s Shazam!
The DC Extended Universe is riding high at the moment following the box office success of Aquaman, and in less than three months Warner Bros. and DC Films will release the next chapter of the shared superhero universe with the release of Shazam!. As we await the release of the new trailer – which, if […]
Caleb Landry Jones joins Tom Hanks in sci-fi drama Bios
Last year it was announced that Tom Hanks is set to star in Bios, a sci-fi drama set up at Amblin Entertainment, and now comes word from Variety that Caleb Landry Jones (Get Out, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) has also joined the film. Directed by Miguel Sapochnik (Game of Thrones) from a script by […]
Lana Condor explains why Jubilee doesn’t feature in X-Men: Dark Phoenix
While X-Men: Dark Phoenix brings back the majority of the cast of 2016’s X-Men: Apocalypse for what looks certain to be the final instalment in Fox’s X-Men series, there will be one omission from Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters, with Lana Condor revealing that she was unable to reprise her role as Jubilee due to […]
Kim Delaney and Bill Brochtrup returning for NYPD Blue revival
Back in October it was announced that ABC had ordered a pilot for a revival of the classic 90s police procedural drama NYPD Blue, and now we have word on two original cast members who are set to return. As revealed by TV Line, both Kim Delaney (Diane Russell) and Bill Brochtrup (John Irvin) have […]
Blu-ray Review – The Jerk: 40th Anniversary Edition (1979)
The Jerk, 1979. Directed by Carl Reiner. Starring Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, M. Emmet Walsh, Jackie Mason, Dickie O’Neill, and Mabel King. SYNOPSIS: This year marks four decades since Steve Martin and Carl Reiner’s The Jerk hit theaters and showcased the young comic’s skills. If, like me, you have fond memories of catching this one […]
Anime feature Okko’s Inn gets a U.S. teaser trailer
GKIDS and Madhouse have revealed a new teaser trailer and images for the North American release of Okko’s Inn, the upcoming anime feature from Studio Ghibli’s veteran animator Kitaro Kosaka; take a look here… After losing her parents in a car accident, Okko goes to live in the countryside with her grandmother, who runs a traditional […]
Rumour: Spider-Man: Far From Home trailer releasing on Tuesday
Back in December, Sony and Marvel unveiled the first trailer for July’s Spider-Man: Far From Home at Brazil’s Comic Con Experience, although unfortunately for everyone outside of CCXP, the rumours of an online release to coincide with the convention proved false. Well, if a new rumour is to be believed, we may not have long […]
Netflix announces fantasy series Shadow and Bone
Netflix has placed an eight episode series order for the fantasy Shadow and Bone, which is based upon author Leigh Bardugo’s ‘Grishaverse‘ book series and has Arrival and Bird Box writer Eric Heisserer attached to serve as writer and showrunner. As per THR, Shadow and Bone takes place “in a world divided in two by […]
