With filming now underway on The Defenders [check out the first set photos here], Marvel has announced three new additions to the cast, with Rachael Taylor (Trish Walker), Rosario Dawson (Claire Temple) and Scott Glenn (Stick) reprising their roles from Jessica Jones and Daredevil. Here’s the announcement video… Old friendships die hard. @_Rachael_Taylor, #ScottGlenn, and […]
Kevin Feige on Spider-Man: Homecoming and the diversification of the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Having come in for some criticism during the early stages of the Marvel Cinematic Universe due to a lack of diversity, Marvel Studios is putting a major focus on increasing the diversification of the MCU during Phase Three, which promises to make some major strides. Speaking to Vulture, Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige has been […]
Holliday Grainger cast as female lead in BBC’s J.K. Rowling series Cormoran Strike
Holliday Grainger (Cinderella, The Finest Hours) has secured the female lead in the BBC’s upcoming Comoran Strike series, which is based upon J.K. Rowling’s bestselling crime novels, written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. The series, which will adapt The Cuckoo’s Calling, The Silkworm and Career of Evil across seven hour-long episodes, will star Tom Burke […]
Kiersey Clemons to cameo as Iris West in Justice League
Dope star Kiersey Clemons is set to take on the female lead of Iris West in Warner Bros. and DC Films’ The Flash movie, and it seems that – much like Amber Heard’s Mera from Aquaman – she’ll be making her debut as the character next year in Zack Snyder’s Justice League. There had been some […]
Movie Review – The Shelter (2015)
The Shelter, 2015. Directed by John Fallon. Starring Michael Paré, Lauren Alexandra and Rachel G. Whittle SYNOPSIS: A homeless man named Thomas (Michael Pare) finds shelter for the night within a lavish abandoned two-story house. He eventually discovers that he is not alone and the premises won’t let him leave. When you have a body […]
Zach Galifianakis, Levi Miller, Andre Holland, Deric McCabe and Michael Pena join A Wrinkle in Time
Disney and director Ava DuVernay have rounded out the cast of their upcoming fantasy A Wrinkle in Time, with Zach Galifianakis, Levi Miller, Andre Holland and Deric McCabe joining the previously announced Storm Reid, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling and Chris Pine. “Since Day One, this experience has shimmered with the promise and possibility, […]
The Flash Season 3 Episode 5 Review – ‘Monster’
Jessie Robertson reviews the fifth episode of The Flash season 3… Anyone up for a midnight showing of “Murder on the Titanic?” One of Hitchcock’s Best….. So, this week, The Flash focuses on some of its side characters and it’s really, pretty good! First up is the new Harrison Wells; simply put, this dude is […]
Casey Affleck set for vigilante thriller Villain
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 […]
