Tom Beasley takes a shot at predicting the final shortlists for the Academy Awards… The Academy will release their shortlists for the Oscars tomorrow, lighting the touchpaper on the final furlong of the awards season race. These nominations are the holy grail of the awards season calendar and being chosen will ensure the great and […]
Watch an exclusive clip from the Pussy Riot documentary Act & Punishment
Ahead of its VOD release later this week, we have an exclusive clip from Act & Punishment, a new documentary from director Yevgeni Mitta which follows members of the controversial Russian activist group Pussy Riot and focuses on the trials that occurred after the women were arrested for publicly expressing their ideas of female independence […]
Movie Review – Downsizing (2017)
Downsizing, 2017. Directed by Alexander Payne. Starring Matt Damon, Kristen Wiig, Christoph Waltz, Hong Chau, Jason Sudeikis, and Udo Kier. SYNOPSIS: A cash strapped couple discover a way to escape their financial problems – move to a brand new community. All they have to do is undergo an irreversible operation that will shrink them down […]
Blu-ray Review – Hounds of Love (2016)
Hounds of Love, 2016. Directed by Ben Young. Starring Emma Booth, Ashleigh Cummings, Stephen Curry, Susie Porter, Damian de Montemas, and Harrison Gilbertson. SYNOPSIS: A teenage girl is kidnapped by a depraved couple and tries to play one off against the other in order to escape. Set in 1987 and based on true events, Hounds […]
Extended TV spot for video game adaptation Rampage starring Dwayne Johnson
A new extended TV has been released for Brad Peyton’s upcoming video game adaptation Rampage which gives us another look at Dwayne Johnson’s Primatologist Davis Okoye, and monsters George, Ralph, and Lizzie in action; watch it here… SEE ALSO: Watch the trailer for Rampage here On April 20, BIG MEETS BIGGER. #RampageMovie pic.twitter.com/U5IhXfzzhC — Rampage Movie (@rampagethemovie) January […]
Lara Croft embarks on an adventure in new Tomb Raider TV spot
Following last week’s new trailer for Tomb Raider [watch it here], an action-packed TV spot has arrived online for Warner Bros.’ upcoming big screen reboot of the classic video game franchise starring Oscar winner Alicia Vikander as Lara Croft; check it out here… Lara Croft is the fiercely independent daughter of an eccentric adventurer who vanished when […]
Marc Munden to direct new adaptation of The Secret Garden
Heyday Films and StudioCanal are teaming up for a new adaptation of Frances Hogson Burnett’s classic 1911 book The Secret Garden, which has Marc Munden (National Treasure, Utopia) set to direct from a script by Jack Thorne (The Scouting Book for Boys, Wonder). The Secret Garden follows Mary Lennox, a sickly 10-year-old orphan who is […]
FoxNext announces new Alien video game
There may be some big question marks over the future of the Alien franchise on the big screen following the critical and commercial failure of Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant (not to mention Disney’s acquisition of Fox’s film assets), but fans do at least have something to look forward to, with a new video game in […]
Watch the trailer for Becks starring Lena Hall and Mena Suvari
Ahead of its release next month, a trailer has arrived online for directors Daniel Powell and Elizabeth Rohrbaugh’s romantic drama Becks, which stars Lena Hall, Mena Suvari, Christine Lahti, Dan Fogler, Hayley Kiyoko and Natalie Gold. Check it out here, along with the poster and synopsis… After a crushing breakup with her girlfriend, a Brooklyn […]
Taraji P. Henson teams with John Singleton for Emmett Till movie
THR is reporting that Empire and Proud Mary star Taraji P. Henson is teaming with director John Singleton (Four Brothers) for a movie based upon the murder of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American boy who was brutally killed by two white men in Mississippi in 1955. The film will see Henson producing, as well […]
