According to Variety, CBS is developing a TV adaptation of L.A. Confidential, which is based upon James Ellroy’s novel of the same name, with Jordan Harper (The Mentalist, Gotham) set to write and executive produce. The 1990 novel was adapted for the big screen in 1997, with Curtis Hanson directing a cast that included Guy Pearce, […]
Spider-Man: Homecoming gets a new Chinese poster
Spider-Man: Homecoming finally made its way to China this weekend, where the Marvel and Sony-produced reboot is looking at an opening weekend of around $70 million, helping to make it the highest-grossing reboot of all time. To promote its release in the Middle Kingdom, a new poster has arrived online featuring Spidey, The Vulture and […]
Ryan Gosling and Lennie James featured in first Blade Runner 2049 clip
Following a batch of images and TV spot for Blade Runner 2049 [check them out here], the first clip has arrived online for the hotly-anticipated sci-fi sequel ahead of its release next month, featuring Ryan Gosling and Lennie James; watch it below… UPDATE: And here’s a new TV spot… Thirty years after the events of […]
Unbroken getting faith-based sequel Path to Redemption
Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken is set to receive a faith-based sequel, with Deadline reporting that the film’s producer Matt Baer is teaming with director Harold Cronk (God’s Not Dead) for Unbroken: Path to Redemption. Based on the second half of author Laura Hillenbrand’s book, Path to Redemption will explore Louis Zemperini’s life after World War II. […]
Psychological thriller Human Traces gets a trailer
Coinciding with its North American debut at the Toronto International Film Festival, Deadline has debuted a trailer for writer-director Nic Gorman’s feature debut Human Traces. The psychological thriller stars includes Mark Mitchinson, Vinnie Bennett, and Sophie Henderson; watch it below… “When a mysterious young man arrives on a remote Sub-Antarctic research station, secrets threaten the […]
You Can’t Buy a Franchise, You Have to Build One
Neil Calloway on Disney suffocating Star Wars… After American Graffiti, George Lucas spent a while shoving his Western in space script under the nose of anyone who cared to read it. They gave him suggestions on how to improve it, he took them on, and a few years later he finally shot the film. It […]
Flickering Myth Film Class: Using Colour
In this instalment of Flickering Myth’s Film Class, Tom Jolliffe looks at intentional use of colours in film… When it was discovered that film stock could have colour painted onto it, though painstaking and meticulous, it opened up a new dimension in cinema, previously locked into black, white and grey. It allowed a film-maker to […]
BoJack Horseman Season 4 Episode 3 Review – ‘Hooray! Todd Episode!”
Liam Hoofe reviews the third episode of BoJack Horseman season 4… One of the things that make BoJack Horseman such an incredible TV show, is its strength and depth of characters. While BoJack is clearly the show’s protagonist, every other character in the show comes with their own set of problems and their own way of […]
The Most Disappointing: Marvel’s The Defenders
Anghus Houvouras on Marvel’s The Defenders… This one kind of smarts. Imagine after all the Marvel Phase One films you finally get to The Avengers and it ends up a poorly written dumpster fire. This was my experience with Marvel’s The Defenders. It’s absolute garbage. A poorly written piece of pure inevitability that never manages […]
The Week in Star Wars – More trouble for Lucasfilm as Episode IX loses its director, who is The Last Jedi and more
The Week in Star Wars returns with bad news coming from the Lucasfilm camp, Rian Johnson’s comments on The Last Jedi and a load of toy images… Right, so let’s look at the Colin Trevorrow situation then. It was revealed this week that Trevorrow (Jurassic World) had become the fourth director since the Disney-era to […]
