I Am Not Your Negro, 2016. Directed by Raoul Peck. Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson. SYNOPSIS: Director Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished – a radical narration about race in America, using the writer’s original words. He draws upon James Baldwin’s notes on the lives and assassinations of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, […]
Film Score Review – Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017)
Tony Black reviews the score for Smurfs: The Lost Village… Who knew we were getting a new Smurfs movie? Especially one with, as it turns out, a really quite charming score. Christopher Lennertz for some reason hasn’t broken out to become one of the giants in modern composing but it’s hard to see why as […]
Star Wars: Episode IX shoot date revealed, Call of Duty cinematic universe, Daredevil 3 shooting details and more – Daily News Roundup
EPISODE IX DETAILS Yesterday it was revealed that Star Wars: Episode IX would start shooting in July 2017 in London – presumably in Pinewood. We still don’t have a trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi (but that should change by next weekend) and Episode IX isn’t out until December 2019 – so there isn’t […]
Billie Lourd joins American Horror Story season 7
The next season of American Horror Story has just gained a new cast member who is already quite familiar to the genre and its fans. Deadline broke the news that Billie Lourd, who also stars in Scream Queens, is set to join the horror anthology for its seventh season. Lourd will be joining American Horror Story veterans Sarah Paulson and Evan […]
Penthouse founder’s life set for TV series
According to Variety, Jerrick Media and Maven Pictures are teaming up to bring the life of Penthouse founder Bob Guccione to the small screen and are currently interviewing writers for a TV drama. The site reports that the potential series will be told through the eyes of the various women in Guccione’s life and explore […]
Cast announced for Lynyrd Skynyrd biopic Street Survivors
Last summer it was announced that former Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer Artimus Pyle was teaming with Cleopatra Films for Free Bird, a movie exploring the tragic 1977 plane crash that killed three members of the American rock band, and now having undergone a change of title to Street Survivors: The True Story of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane […]
Terrence Malick on returning to scripted filmmaking
Legendary director Terrence Malick has commented about returning to his old style of filmmaking, and a move back to a definite script for his upcoming movies. The mercurial director, who would once take great leaps of time between his movies, was known for his thematically compelling and visually beautiful films such as Days of Heaven, […]
Charlie Cox says Daredevil season 3 will shoot this year
It’s certainly an exciting – and busy – time for Netflix’s Marvel universe; following last month’s Iron Fist series, Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist are set to team up for The Defenders (which has been announced this week as premiering on August 18th), while cameras continue to roll on The Punisher, and […]
Nominations for the MTV Movie & TV Awards announced
MTV has announced the new categories and nominations for the first-ever MTV Movie & TV Awards, celebrating the actors, stories and moments that defined pop culture in the past year. As part of the revamp, the nominations include transformations of both categories fans have come to expect as well as the introduction of new ones. While fan […]
Movie Review – Raw (2016)
Raw, 2016. Written and Directed by Julia Ducournau. Starring Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, Rabah Nait Oufella, Laurent Lucas, Joana Preiss, Bouli Lanners, Marion Vernoux, and Jean-Louis Sbille. SYNOPSIS: When a young vegetarian undergoes a carnivorous hazing ritual at vet school, an unbidden taste for meat begins to grow in her. A coming-of-age cannibal movie could […]
