Unlocked, 2017. Directed by Michael Apted. Starring Noomi Rapace, Orlando Bloom, Toni Collette, Michael Douglas and John Malkovich. SYNOPSIS: Former CIA interrogator Alice (Noomi Rapace) is working undercover in a London community centre. She’s reluctant to go back to her old job because of her failure to “unlock” a suspect, which resulted in terrorist attack which […]
Famke Janssen joins Michael Caton-Jones’ Asher
Deadline is reporting that Famke Jansson has signed on to appear in Michael Caton-Jones’ new film Asher, where she will star alongside Ron Perlman, Richard Dreyfuss, Peter Facinelli and Nadine Velazquez. Asher has been penned by Jay Zaretsky and follows a Mossad member-turned-gun-for-hire in New York who is living the good life but at the end of his […]
TV Review: Code of a Killer
Rachel Bellwoar reviews the miniseries Code of a Killer… When Alec Jeffreys invented the probe that made DNA testing a readable, genetic fingerprint he didn’t consider its applications for criminal justice. DCS David Baker sought him out, after reading about the test’s success in paternity and immigration cases. Two teenage girls from the same town […]
Michael Bay built a Stonehenge replica for Transformers: The Last Knight, and blew it up
As we’ve come to be accustomed to from Michael Bay movies – and the Transformers franchise in particular – we can expect to see plenty of destruction in this summer’s Transformers: The Last Knight. And it seems that will extend to the UK’s iconic landmark Stonehenge, with actress Laura Haddock revealing that Bay built a […]
Movie Review – Unleashed (2016)
Unleashed, 2016. Written and Directed by Finn Taylor. Starring Kate Micucci, Justin Chatwin, Steve Howey, Illeana Douglas, Hana Mae Lee, and Sean Astin. SYNOPSIS: When a cosmic event turns Emma’s dog and cat into two perfect guys, Emma reconsiders her outlook on dating, hilariously works out her trust issues, and ultimately learns to love herself. […]
Ghost Rider returning to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. for season 4 finale
It looks like the Spirit of Vengeance will be heating things up in the season four finale of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., with TV Line reporting that Gabriel Luna will be reprising the role of Robbie Reyes, a.k.a. the Ghost Rider. The season finale will see Ghost Rider assisting Coulson and his team as they […]
Rumour: Two new characters from the Han Solo Star Wars spinoff revealed
As you’d expect with a Star Wars movie, details on the upcoming Han Solo Anthology film are being kept tightly under wraps at Lucasfilm. We do know that Alden Ehrenreich is playing Han, with Donald Glover as Lando Calrissian, Joonas Suotamo as Chewbacca, and Woody Harrelson as Beckett, Han Solo’s mentor, who may or may […]
Dwayne Johnson shares details on the plot for Rampage
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is headlining an adaptation of the popular video game title Rampage. The game was extremely thin on plot, but according to Dwayne Johnson, the movie has some semblance of a story. In fact, he took to Instagram recently to give some details on the upcoming creature-feature: “I head up an anti poaching […]
The Frenzied Fraud of Forced Fandom
Anghus Houvouras on the frenzied fraud of forced fandom… The true casualty of the current state of geek cinema is how entertainment sites have mirrored the 24 hour news cycle first introduced by CNN back in the 1980’s. The idea that there is enough happening in the world to necessitate news every minute of every […]
Morena Baccarin is glad some sex scenes were cut from Deadpool
Deadpool was obviously an adult-oriented superhero movie (arguably the first of its kind) and naturally dabbled in some sexual content, most notably a calendar year holiday montage between the titular superhero and his love interest played by Morena Baccarin. Morena recently spoke about the sex scenes to Conan O’Brien, expressing joy that not everything made the […]