On Chesil Beach (2017) Directed by Dominic Cooke Starring Saoirse Ronan, Billy Howle, Sam West, Emily Watson, Anne-Marie Duff, Adrian Scarborough and Bebe Cave. SYNOPSIS: It’s the early 1960s and newly-married couple, Florence and Edward, have arrived to spend their first night together at a hotel near Chesil Beach in Dorset. Their first attempt at […]
Exclusive Interview – Director Dominic Cooke talks On Chesil Beach and his next film Ironbark
Director Dominic Cooke made his name in the theatre, with much-praised stints at The Royal Court, The Royal Shakespeare Company and The National Theatre. TV’s award winning The Hollow Crown (2012) followed and he now arrives in cinemas with his first movie, On Chesil Beach, adapted from the novella by Ian McEwan. A self-confessed constant […]
Gotham renewed for a fifth and final season, but they won’t be able to use the name Joker
After cancelling Lucifer, The Exorcist, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Mick and The Last Man on Earth in recent days, Fox has made fans of Gotham wait for news on the future of the Batman prequel series. Well, the wait is now over, as the network has confirmed that Gotham has been renewed for a fifth season, […]
Christmas horror Sick for Toys gets a trailer and poster
Devilworks has released a poster and trailer for director David Del Rio’s upcoming festive horror Sick for Toys which stars Camille Montgomery, Jon Paul Burkhart, Justin Xavier, David Gunning, Melanie Thompson, Morgana Shaw, Katie Wallace; check them out here along with three images… The film tells the story of Roy, who accepts an invitation to have Christmas dinner […]
Movie Review – Island Zero (2017)
Island Zero, 2017. Directed by Josh Gerritsen. Starring Laila Robins, Adam Wade McLaughlin, Terri Reeves, Matthew Wilkas, and Elaine Landry. SYNOPSIS : A remote island off the coast of Maine, USA, finds itself cut off from the mainland when communications fail, and the ferry fails to appear. Then people start to disappear too, and the […]
The Most Disappointing: The ‘Genetically Engineered Killing Machine’ trope
Anghus Houvouras on the ‘Genetically Engineered Killing Machine’ trope… Blockbusters are frequently rife with clichés and tropes, gingerly strung together to construct a flimsy narrative from which they can hang their set-pieces. No one ever said big budget crowd-pleasers had to be wholly original. If that was a requirement we might only get 2 to […]
Blu-ray Review – Rawhead Rex (1986)
Rawhead Rex, 1986. Directed by George Pavlou. Starring David Dukes, Kelly Piper, Hugh O’Conor, Ronan Wilmot, John Olohan, and Heinrich von Schellendorf. SYNOPSIS: A farmer unleashes a demon known as Rawhead Rex, who proceeds to go on the rampage across rural Ireland. There is an unwritten rule in horror filmmaking that you don’t reveal your […]
Young Sheldon Season 1 Finale Review – ‘Vanilla Ice-Cream, Gentleman Callers, and a Dinette’
Martin Carr reviews the season finale of Young Sheldon… Taking quirky up a notch by focusing on the dessert choices of physicist Richard Fineman before seguing into courtship rituals amongst Texan widows, Young Sheldon maintains its batting average. Employing off beat character moments there is unintentional humour by way of intellectual awkwardness and an emotional […]
Stan Lee’s The Virtue of Vera Valiant heading to the big screen
Over the past decade we’ve become very accustomed to seeing Stan Lee’s creations on the big screen, and we’ll soon be able to add another to the ever-expanding list, although this one is pretty far removed from Marvel superheroes. Deadline is reporting that Lee’s Pow! Entertainment is teaming up with China’s Tianying Media for an […]
Preview of Hunt for Wolverine: Claws of a Killer #1
Marvel’s Hunt for Wolverine continues this week with the release of The Claws of a Killer #1, and you can take a look at a preview of the issue here; check it out… KEEP YOUR FRIENDS DEAD, BUT YOUR ENEMIES DEADER! As word spreads that Wolverine may have returned from the grave, a handful of […]
