Tony Black reviews The X-Files #12… “Skinner,” Part 1 (of 2): Assistant Director Walter Skinner finally gets the spotlight! When a face from the past resurfaces, Skinner must confront painful memories of the Vietnam War in his effort to keep a dark secret from being exposed. SEE ALSO: Check out a preview of The X-Files […]
Rumour: Adi Shankar tops Sony’s Venom director shortlist
With Sony pushing ahead with its plans for a non-MCU-related Venom solo movie (which is due to shoot this Autumn and will apparently carry an R rating), a rumour has emerged claiming that Adi Shankar is positioned at the top of the studio’s director shortlist for the project. For those unfamiliar with Adi Shankar, he actually has experience […]
Peter Berg and Mark Wahlberg reteam for Mile 22
Earlier today at CinemaCon, STX entertainment took the stage to introduce Peter Berg and Mark Wahlberg (Lone Survivor, Deepwater Horizon, Patriots Day), who are once again collaborating on a project. Their new film is called Mile 22, and is about a CIA officer having to smuggle a key Indonesian witness to an airport 22 miles away, […]
New Spider-Man trailer, Men in Black reboot, Godzilla: King of Monsters casting and more – Daily News Roundup
SPIDER-TRAILER Following on from DC releasing their first official trailer for Justice League, Marvel and Sony fired back with the second trailer for Spider-Man: Homecoming. As promised, the trailer featured more Spidey, more Tony Stark and a lot of Vulture. Watch the trailer here. MEN IN REBOOT For a while there was a lot of […]
Amber Heard to headline The Kind Worth Killing
Deadline is reporting that Amber Heard is set to headline The Kind Worth Killing, director Agnieszka Holland’s (Europa Europa, The Secret Garden) adaptation of Peter Swanson’s 2015 novel of the same name. The film will see Heard as Lily, “a mysterious and stunning killer who meets Ted Severson on a late-night flight from London to […]
Miles Teller joins Nicolas Winding Refn’s Amazon series Too Old To Die Young
Last month it was announced that Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, ) is writing, directing and producing a crime thriller series for Amazon entitled To Old To Die Young, and now comes word that Whiplash and Bleed for This star Miles Teller has signed on for the lead. “I’m a huge fan of Nic’s work, so […]
Supergirl Season 2 Episode 17 Review – ‘Distant Sun’
Martin Carr reviews the seventeenth episode of Supergirl season 2… Who would have thought we might get little flashes of Shakespeare in amongst all those comic book shenanigans this week. What ‘Distant Sun’ shows us is that these writers and show runner are up on their classics and not afraid to steal from The Bard. […]
True Detective season 3 in the works with Deadwood creator
There is life! True Detective is to be brought back to TV after a two year absence for a third season. When season one of the show hit screens back in 2014, quite the cultural phenomenon was created. The anthology drama based around two cops investigating a deeply disturbing string of murders hooked audiences on […]
Patrick Wilson is teasing his Aquaman villain Ocean Master
Actor Patrick Wilson has been teasing the arrival of his upcoming Aquaman villain Ocean Master. A consistent and prevalent problem in the modern day superhero genre – one that exists across the Marvel/DC spectrum- is the lack of interesting and substantive villains. While all the attention is thrown at the film’s heroes, the antagonists in […]
Andrew Garfield to produce and star in journalist drama Black Lion
Former Spider-Man Andrew Garfield has landed a new role in the film Black Lion, which is being produced by Stay Gold Features from a script by Alessandro Camon, co-writer of The Messenger. Garfield will produce alongside Stay Gold’s Daniela Taplin Lundberg and Rupert Fowler. Black Lion will tell the true story of Carlos Mavroleon, an English/Greek heir to a […]