The Lost City Of Z, 2016. Directed by James Gray. Starring Charlie Hunnam, Tom Holland, Sienna Miller, Robert Pattinson, and Angus Macfadyen. SYNOPSIS: A true-life drama, centering on British explorer Col. Percival Fawcett, who disappeared while searching for a mysterious city in the Amazon in the 1920s. Bringing to mind the grand, opulence of the […]
Movie Review – Life (2017)
Life, 2017. Directed by Daniel Espinosa. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Ryan Reynolds, Rebecca Ferguson, Hiroyuki Sanada, Olga Dihovichnaya, and Ariyon Bakare. SYNOPSIS: A team of scientists aboard the International Space Station whose mission of discovery turns to one of primal fear when they find a rapidly evolving life form that caused extinction on Mars, and now […]
Anne Dudek set for recurring role on The Flash
TV Line is reporting that Anne Dudek (House, Mad Men) has bagged a recurring role in The CW’s superhero series The Flash. According to the site, the actress is set to play the future genius Tracy Brand, described as “a smorgasbord of quirky idiosyncrasies.” Dudek is set to make her first appearance in the twentieth […]
Movie Review – The Eyes of My Mother (2016)
The Eyes of My Mother, 2016. Written and Directed by Nicolas Pesce. Starring Kika Magalhães, Olivia Bond, Diana Agostini, and Paul Nazak. SYNOPSIS: A young, lonely woman is consumed by her deepest and darkest desires after tragedy strikes her quiet country life. You can’t but applaud director Nicolas Pesce for lack of vision. His streamlined feature […]
East Loves West: The ever growing Chinese interest in Hollywood
Tom Jolliffe on the ever-growing Chinese interest in Hollywood… It used to be that the success or failure of a Hollywood film rested on its domestic box office results. In fact success or failure was often established by the time the opening weekend results had come in, and even further you could say by the […]
Arrow Season 5 Episode 17 Review – ‘Kapiushan’
Jessie Robertson reviews the seventeenth episode of Arrow season 5… I pondered last week how Chase capturing Oliver and torturing him could stretch out into six or so more episodes; now we find out. This wasn’t just a simple torture scene. Yes, he half-drowned him. Yes, he kept him chained up. Yes, he put three […]
Comic Book Review – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #68
Chris Cooper reviews Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #68… “Desperate Measures” Part 2! The Mutanimals have been defeated and the Turtles are next in line! Which mutant will turn on his friends to survive, and which will risk everything to help another? For the first time ever, I dislike Leonardo. As someone who has held him […]
The Last Jedi revisiting classic planets, The Terminator terminated, Michael Shannon as Cable, more Spider-Man spinoffs – Daily News Roundup
Rounding up yesterday’s big news stories… STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI TO REVISIT CLASSIC PLANETS As we await the first trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi, the folks at Making Star Wars is reporting that the latest chapter in the Sequel Trilogy will see us returning to three classic planets in Tatooine, Mustafar and […]
Global box office hits record numbers for 2016
The final numbers are in, and the global box office managed to reach a record high during the year of 2016. While the actual numbers of cinema goers is generally declining, thanks to inflation the global box office during the year of 2016 has seen a record number of revenue, but only by a hair. […]
Studios pushing for earlier home entertainment releases
The world of movies and movie going is changing. The cinema doesn’t play the role in our culture that it once did. Fans are just as keen to stay home and watch Netflix or some other VOD service as they are making the trip to their local theatre. Many have speculated that a day […]
