War for the Planet of the Apes, 2017. Directed by Matt Reeves. Starring Andy Serkis, Woody Harrelson, Steve Zahn, Amiah Miller, Judy Greer, Karin Konoval, Terry Notary, Michael Adamthwaite, Gabriel Chavarria, Max Lloyd-Jones, Sara Canning, Aleks Paunovic, and Chad Rook. SYNOPSIS: After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his […]
Directorial Vision vs Crowd Pleasing
Tom Jolliffe on directorial vision vs crowd pleasing… We’ve all done it in our lives. The crowd leans a certain way and we adhere to that. Maybe it was in school. Oasis vs Blur (yes, I’m old). The consensus is Oasis, so you put Oasis in your tape deck to please everyone. Secretly though you’re […]
Gotham’s Sean Pertwee would love to see the cast star in their own Batman movie
Gotham is approaching its fourth season, and a young Bruce Wayne finally seems to be at the tipping point to starting his journey to become Batman. The show creates an interesting situation for DC on screen in that technically there are two Batmans (although not quite yet). While we have our full-blown Caped Crusader fill with […]
Producer Adi Shankar wants to work on “Dark Metroid” series, says Castlevania Season 2 “will blow season 1 out of the water”
Adi Shankar is quickly becoming a hero in the eyes of gamers. The first season of Shankar’s Castlevania series has hit Netflix to mostly positive reviews, and he has also recently announced an animated take on Assassin’s Creed. Now, Castlevania has already been given the green-light for another season, and things seem to be moving […]
Lucy Liu to direct the opening episode of Luke Cage season 2
Actress Lucy Liu is stepping behind the camera to direct the premiere of Luke Cage season 2. With the upcoming release of Marvel’s The Defenders on August 18th, Netflix are already looking ahead to the next solo seasons of the heroes that make up the team. Liu was spotted on the set of Luke Cage […]
Clint Eastwood has cast real life U.S. heroes for his next film
Legendary actor and filmmaker Clint Eastwood has hired real life American heroes for his next motion picture. Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos, and Spencer Stone have been hired to play themselves in Eastwood’s next film entitled The 15:17 to Paris. The film will tell the true story of three U.S. men who helped to subdue a […]
Movie Review – The Beguiled (2017)
The Beguiled, 2017. Directed by Sofia Coppola Starring Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning, Colin Farrell and Angourie Rice. SYNOPSIS: During the American Civil War, a girl from a Confederate boarding school discovers a wounded Union soldier. She takes him back to the school, where his wounds are looked after by the headmistress, her assistant […]
Boom! announces Big Trouble in Little China: Big Trouble in Merrie Olde England
Boom! Studios has announced that Jack Burton will be heading across the Pond this December with the release of Big Trouble in Little China Illustrated Novel: Big Trouble in Merrie Olde England from writer Matthew J. Elliott (Big Trouble in Little China Illustrated Novel: Big Trouble in Mother Russia) and illustrator Jonas Scharf (War for the Planet […]
Neill Blomkamp’s Alien 5 didn’t always feature Ellen Ripley, but Sigourney Weaver changed his mind
It looks like Neill Blomkamp’s ill-fated Alien 5 didn’t always feature series mainstay Ellen Ripley. In a recent interview with Funhaus, the director reveals that an encounter with Sigourney Weaver herself changed his mind completely… “I met Sigourney on Chappie and I had a different idea for an Alien film I wanted to make. So […]
Westworld season 2 casts The Leftovers’ Katja Herbers
HBO’s hit series Westworld will see a new face enter the park for its second season. The show has cast Katja Herbers, who is an HBO veteran from The Leftovers, for the upcoming season. Her other credits have included FX’s The Americans and Manhattan. Herbers will star as Grace, a seasoned guest of Westworld who visited visit the park just as its “darkest […]
