Variety is reporting that Casey Affleck (Triple 9) is set to star in Villain, a vigilante thriller which he’s scripted himself, and has Mikael Marcimain (Wallander, Call Girl) attached to direct. According to the site, the film takes place in a city overrun with crime, and “Affleck’s character loses everything of meaning in his life […]
Book Review – A City Dreaming by Daniel Polansky
Michelle Herbert reviews A City Dreaming by Daniel Polansky… With A City Dreaming, Polansky has written an intriguing and at times mind boggling urban fantasy that seeps into the unconscious via a series of vignettes following the exploits of M, his friends and associates. M’s world encompasses our own, but like a VIP curtain, you only […]
The Lives of Others director adapting fantasy comic Thorgal
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, director of the Oscar-winning The Lives of Others, is set to bring the Belgian fantasy comic series Thorgal to the screen, THR is reporting. Created by Belgian writer Jean Van Hamme and Polish artist Grzegorz Roskinski and launching in 1977, Thorgal follows Thorgal Aegirsson, a mysterious child who is found and […]
Katherine Waterston joins Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Shannon in The Current War
Katherine Waterston has signed on to appear alongside Benedict Cumberbatch (Doctor Strange) and Michael Shannon (Midnight Special) in The Weinstein Company’s upcoming drama The Current War. The film is being directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl) and revolves around the real life battle between Thomas Edison (Cumberbatch) and George Westinghouse […]
Johnny Depp joins Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them sequel
We’re still a couple of weeks away from the release of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, but we now have our first piece of casting news for the second instalment, with Deadline reporting that Johnny Depp is officially joining J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World. According to the site, Depp’s role is being kept under […]
Ezra Miller gives a Magical History Lesson in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them featurette
With a little over two weeks to go until its release, a new featurette has arrived online for the Harry Potter spinoff Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them; which sees Ezra Miller giving a Magical History lesson; check it out below… SEE ALSO: Final trailer for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Fantastic Beasts and […]
Liam Neeson reuniting with Neil Jordan for The Trainer
Liam Neeson has signed on to appear in The Trainer, which will reunite him with his High Spirits, Michael Collins and Breakfast on Pluto director Neil Jordan, who is helming the project from a script by David Donohue, James Villemaire and Todd Komarnicki (Sully). The official synopsis for The Trainer reads: “John Moore (Neeson) is a premier race-horse […]
Olivia Wilde to star in A Vigilante
Deadline is reporting that Olivia Wilde (Tron: Legacy, Vinyl) has signed on to star in A Vigilante, a new drama from writer-director Sarah Daggar Nickson (Dream Life). The film, which is being produced by Randall Emmett and George Furla of Emmett/Furla/Oasis, will see Wilde as The Woman, a secretive figure who rids victims of their […]
The Strain Season 3 Episode 10 Review – ‘The Fall’
Martin Carr reviews the season 3 finale of The Strain… This is a finale in more than mere name. All bombast, hyper-reality and fisty cuffs at Mach five as an old man and even older bald fella with a sword battle each other Matrix style. Here then is the season closer for a series which […]
Book Review – The X-Files: Secret Agendas
Tony Black reviews The X-Files: Secret Agendas… In the space of around eighteen months, IDW Publishing have neatly timed around the revival of 90’s TV hit The X-Files a series of compilation short stories about the weird & wonderful investigations of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder & Dana Scully, with ‘Secret Agendas’ the overarching title […]
