Toothless and Hiccup managed to stay circling high above the competition at the US box office this weekend, as How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World fought off Tyler Perry’s latest Madea movie, A Madea Family Funeral, to take the top spot with an estimated $30 million. Universal’s trilogy capping adventure dipped -45% during […]
Blu-ray Review – Possum (2018)
Possum, 2018. Directed by Matthew Holness Starring Sean Harris, Alun Armstrong, Simon Bubb, and Andy Blithe SYNOPSIS: A disgraced children’s puppeteer returns to his childhood home and is forced to confront the troubling memories that have tormented him his entire life. Anyone expecting any sort of light relief from Matthew Holness’s debut feature will be sorely disappointed. […]
2019 Glasgow Film Festival Review – Beats
Beats, 2019. Directed by Brian Welsh. Starring Cristian Ortega, Lorn Macdonald, Laura Fraser and Brian Ferguson. SYNOPSIS: It’s Scotland, 1994. Two young friends in West Lothian with a love for techno head for one last night together, before life sends them their separate ways. For all its horrific, stillborn visage and unforgiving portrait of drug culture, Trainspotting […]
Warner Bros. acquires Hugh Jackman and Rebecca Ferguson sci-fi thriller Reminiscence
After gaining The Greatest Showman‘s Hugh Jackman and Rebecca Ferguson last month, Lisa Joy’s (Westworld) directorial debut Reminiscence has now found a studio, with Deadline revealing that Warner Bros. will distribute the sci-fi action thriller worldwide after a bidding war among several studios. Reminiscence will see Jackman as Nicolas Bannister, “a rugged and solitary veteran living in a […]
Comic Book Preview – G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Yearbook
IDW Publishing releases the oversized G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Yearbook this Wednesday, and you can take a look at a preview of the special issue here… Recap the explosive year that was with an all-new Dawn Moreno/Snake Eyes adventure from living legend Larry Hama and superstar artist Kei Zama. Backed-up by an original […]
Disney reportedly retooling Pinocchio after losing director
Back in January it was announced that Paddington helmer Paul King has vacated the director’s chair on Disney’s planned Pinocchio movie, leaving the fate of the live-action adaptation uncertain. Well, if a new report from The DisInsider is to be believed, the House of Mouse has decided to retool the project, bringing in Jack Thorne […]
Michael Emerson joins Katja Herbers and Mike Colter in Evil
Michael Emerson (Lost) is set to return to CBS for the drama pilot Evil, starring alongside Katja Herbers (Westworld) and Mike Colter (Luke Cage) in the potential series created by The Good Wife’s Robert and Michelle King. Evil follows Kristen Benoist (Herbers), a skeptical female forensic psychologist who joins priest-in-training David Dacosta (Colter) to investigate supposed miracles, demonic […]
Alan Tudyk to lead Syfy’s Resident Alien adaptation
Last summer it was announced that Syfy was developing a TV adaptation of the Dark Horse comic Resident Alien, and now comes word that the network has granted the project a series order, with Alan Tudyk (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Doom Patrol) set to lead the cast. Based on the comics by Peter […]
Comic Book Preview – Ronin Island #1
Award-winning writer Greg Pak (Firefly, Mech Cadet Yu) and artist Giannis Milonogiannis (Prophet) launch their new series Ronin Island this Wednesday, and you can take a look at a preview of the first issue here courtesy of Boom! Studios… After a mysterious attack wipes out the major cities of 19th century Japan, Korea, and China, […]
Jessica Chastain says It: Chapter Two scene has “the most blood that’s ever been in a horror film”
This September, director Andy Muschietti takes us back to Derry for a final showdown between the now-adult Losers’ Club and the evil entity It in the follow-up to the smash hit 2017 Stephen King adaptation. And, according to Jessica Chastain, we can expect things to get very bloody indeed in It: Chapter Two, with the […]
