Deadline is reporting that Warner Bros. is looking to reunite High-Rise director Ben Wheatley and star Tom Hiddleston on an adaptation of Frank Miller and Geof Darrow’s Dark Horse comic book series Hard Boiled. The three-issue miniseries was published between 1990 and 1992 and follows Carl Seltz, an insurance investigator who discovers he is acually a […]
DVD Review – Mystery Science Theater 3000: Volume XXXVII
Brad Cook reviews Mystery Science Theater 3000: Volume XXXVII… When I reviewed MST3K Volume XXXV, I noted that you could divide Shout! Factory’s releases of the TV series episodes into the “good” and “great” categories. Volume XXXV fell in the former category, as does the latest one, Volume XXXVII (I skipped Volume XXXVI). It’s certainly […]
The Dark Crystal receiving comic book sequel The Power of the Dark Crystal
Boom! Studios imprint Archaia has announced that it is teaming up with The Jim Henson Company to celebrate the 35th anniversary of The Dark Crystal with the official sequel comic book series The Power of the Dark Crystal. Here’s a look at the cover to the first issue by Jae Lee and June Chung… Based […]
Movie Review – Train to Busan (2016)
Train to Busan, 2016. Directed by Sang-ho Yeon Starring Yoo Gong, Soo-an Kim, Ma Dong-seok, Yu-mi Jeong, Woo-sik Choi, Sohee, Eui-sung Kim SYNOPSIS: In a viral outbreak afflicted South Korea, a group of passengers attempt to stay alive on the train from Seoul to Busan… Long distance train journeys are pretty frustrating at the best of times. […]
Movie Review – Loving (2016)
Loving, 2016. Written and Directed by Jeff Nichols. Starring Joel Edgerton, Ruth Negga, Nick Kroll, Chris Greene, Bill Camp, Martin Csokas, Sharon Blackwood, and Michael Shannon. SYNOPSIS: Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, are sentenced to prison in Virginia in 1958 for getting married Before even diving into Loving, let’s get one piece of […]
Blu-ray Review – Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)
Kubo and the Two Strings, 2016. Directed by Travis Knight Featuring the voice talents of Art Parkinson, Charlize Theron, Matthew McConaughey, George Takei, Brenda Vaccaro, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Ralph Fiennes and Rooney Mara. SYNOPSIS: Kubo and the Two Strings arrives in a Blu-ray + DVD + Digital HD set that features the movie in high-def and standard-def, […]
A Miracle of Hanukkah wins Best LGBTQ Film Award in Miami
Polish-born actor and director Adi Spektor has won the Best LGBTQ Film award, for his second directed film, A Miracle of Hanukkah, which was created on an iPhone 6 mobile device, at the 15th Annual Miami Film Festival last week. “Human beings are wonderfully complex and “type casting” in life, will prevent us from fully getting […]
Movie Review – Magnus (2016)
Magnus, 2016. Directed By Benjamin Ree SYNOPSIS: The life and times of Magnus Carlsen. How the “Mozart of chess” became World Champion at the age of 22. Magnus Carlsen is seated in front of ten Harvard Lawyers. He is facing the opposite direction from his opponents, and just for good measure, also blindfolded. The outcome […]
Angela Bassett to play T’Challa’s mother in Marvel’s Black Panther
Marvel has announced that American Horror Story and What’s Love Got to Do With It star Angela Bassett has signed on to the cast of Black Panther, with the Oscar nominee set to play Ramonda, the mother of Chadwick Boseman’s T’Challa. Black Panther is slated to go into production in January, with Ryan Coogler (Creed) […]
TNT orders pilot for Snowpiercer TV series
TNT has placed a pilot order for a TV adaptation of the post-apocalyptic sci-fi Snowpiercer from writer-producers Josh Friedman (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles), Marty Adelstein (Prison Break), and Becky Clements (Last Man Standing). Also on board the project as producers are Bong Joon-Ho, Park Chan-wook, Lee Tae-hun, and Dooho Choi, the producers behind the 2013 feature […]
