Director Barry Jenkins has found his next feature following the Best Picture-winning Moonlight, with Variety reporting that he is set to helm an adaptation of James Baldwin’s novel If Beale Street Could Talk, which is being produced by Annapurna Pictures. The project “follows Tish, a newly engaged Harlem woman who races against the clock to […]
Score Reviews – Despicable Me 3 and Castlevania
Tony Black reviews the scores for Despicable Me 3 and Castlevania… The third film in the animated franchise sees Heitor Pereira return once again as composer for Despicable Me 3, in which loveable bad guy Gru gets a twin brother, the Minions go to prison, a new bad guy emerges and the usual comedic […]
Annie Parisse joins Al Pacino in HBO’s Joe Paterno film
Vinyl actress Annie Parisse is set to make a return to HBO for the as-yet-untitled film about Joe Paterno and the Penn State sexual abuse scandal. Directed by Barry Levinson, the film sees legendary football coach Joe Paterno (Al Pacino), who is considered to be the most successful coach in college football history, embroiled in Penn State’s Jerry Sandusky […]
Watch Neill Blomkamp’s latest short Zygote starring Dakota Fanning
Neill Blomkamp has released the latest short from his Oats Studios productions; entitled Zygote, the short stars Dakota Fanning and Jose Pablo Cantillo as two survivors stranged in an Arctic mine, who are forced to fight for their lives, evading and hiding from a new kind of terror. If you haven’t already, be sure to check out […]
DC announces Green Lantern: Earth One
DC Comics has announced that Hal Jordan is set to become the next character to get the Earth One treatment, with writer Corinna Bechko and writer and artist Gabriel Hardman teaming up for Green Lantern: Earth One Vol. 1, which is set to arrive in March 2018. IGN has revealed that the graphic novel will […]
Martin Scorsese casts Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel and Bobby Cannavale in The Irishman
Martin Scorsese has cast some names that are quite familiar to fans of his movies in his upcoming film The Irishman for Netflix, with Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel and Bobby Cannavale set to join Robert De Niro and Al Pacino (though the latter’s deal is still being finalized). It was reported a couple months ago that Pesci was being […]
Olivia Munn has joined the History series Six
Actress Olivia Munn has joined the cast of the History drama series Six. History’s military drama series Six was ordered for an eight episode first season with the premier coming on January 18, 2017. A second season for the show was picked up by History back in February which is set to contain ten episodes […]
Robert Downey Jr. shares Avengers: Infinity War set photo with Stan Lee, Benedict Cumberbatch and Tom Holland
Robert Downey Jr. has taken to Instagram to share a new image from the set of Avengers: Infinity War, which sees him joined by directors Joe and Anthony Russo, co-stars Benedict Cumberbatch (Doctor Strange) and Tom Holland (Spider-Man), and Marvel legend Stan Lee! Take a look here… https://www.instagram.com/p/BWabSRYDfsI/ SEE ALSO: Avengers: Infinity War is […]
Second Opinion – War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
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 […]
