Thor: Ragnarok is, by most accounts, a rousing success. Director Taika Waititi has created a film that breathes new life into the titular character, pushing the franchise forward in fascinating ways. However, as hard as it is to remember at this point, Thor: Ragnarok is the third film in the Thor solo franchise. Thor, and […]
Movie Review – Paddington 2 (2017)
Paddington 2, 2017.Directed by Paul King. Starring Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Hugh Grant, Julie Walters, Samuel Joslin, Madeleine Harris and the voice of Ben Whishaw.SYNOPSIS:Now happily living with the Brown family in London, Paddington realises his beloved Aunt Lucy’s 100th birthday is approaching and goes looking for the perfect present. When he finds it, it’s […]
Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 Episode 7 Review – ‘Magic To Make The Sanest Man Go Mad’
Alex Moreland reviews the seventh episode of Star Trek: Discovery…Just as repetition reinforces repetition, change begets change… Here, admittedly, I’m beginning to have my doubts about the choice to build Discovery around one central character in a way that previous iterations of Trek didn’t.The time loop is a staple of Trek, an idea that’s returned […]
Preview of The Shadow/Batman #2
Dynamite Entertainment and DC Comics releases The Shadow/Batman #2 this coming Wednesday, and we have a preview of the issue here; check it out…The truth of what the Shadow doesn’t know threatens to destroy his partnership with Batman and Robin just when they need him the most. Three generations of heroes stand at a crossroads as […]
The Crow reboot to start pre-production in 2018
“It can’t rain all the time”. That is unless you’re trying to reboot cult Brandon Lee property The Crow, and the downpour in question is bad luck.There have been rights issues, the shutdown of Relativity Media, a revolving door of potential leads – Luke Evans, Jack Huston, Jason Momoa – and a roll-call of directors, from […]
Blu-ray Review – The Villainess (2017)
The Villainess, 2017.Directed by Byung-gil Jung. Starring Ok-bin Kim, Ha-kyun Shin, Jun Sung, and Seo-hyeong Kim.SYNOPSIS:A female assassin seeks revenge on the man that killed her father, unaware of the consequences that await her.Opening with possibly the greatest five minutes of first-person action ever filmed, The Villainess follows in the tradition of recent high-octane Asian […]
October Horrors 2017 Day 30 – Maximum Overdrive (1986)
Maximum Overdrive, 1986.Directed by Stephen King. Starring Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington and Yeardley Smith.SYNOPSIS:After radiation from a passing comet envelops the Earth, humanity is forced to contend with a violent uprising of machinery, with trucks leading the charge. In the midst of this mechanised apocalypse, a group of survivors finds themselves trapped in […]
Watch the trailer for Gothic horror The Gatehouse
With a little over a month to go until its release, a trailer has arrived online for director Martin Gooch’s upcoming Gothic horror The Gatehouse which stars Scarlett Rayner, Simeon Willis, Linal Haft, Paul Freeman, Hannah Waddingham, Alix Wilton Regan, and Melissa Knatchbull; check it out below after the official synopsis…Jack is a struggling writer […]
Blu-ray Review – Zoology (2016)
Zoology, 2016.Written and Directed by Ivan I. Tverdovsky. Starring Natalya Pavlenkova, Dmitriy Groshev, Irina Chipizhenko, Masha Tokareva, and Zhanetta Demikhova.SYNOPSIS:A middle-aged zoo worker still living at home with her mother begins to see her life turn around when an unexpected physical transformation starts to take shape.Writer director Tverdovsky’s second film (following 2014’s Corrections Class) is an attention grabbing mixture […]
Exclusive Interview – Barry Keoghan and Raffey Cassidy on The Killing of a Sacred Deer
The Killing Of A Sacred Deer, winner of the Best Screenplay award at this year’s Cannes, arrives in UK cinemas this week, just weeks after an enthusiastic reception at this year’s London Film Festival.Yorgos Lanthimos’ follow up to the equally acclaimed The Lobster (2015) turns the spotlight on a successful surgeon who forms a mysterious […]
