As production continues to ramp up for Marvel’s The Defenders, the last week has revealed several cast members from the various Netflix series to reprise their roles for the new show. We can now add one more returning name to the list as Elodie Yung will be coming back as Elektra, the highly-skilled assassin. In Daredevil‘s second […]
Blu-ray Review – The Initiation (1984)
The Initiation, 1984. Directed by Larry Stewart. Starring Daphne Zuniga, Clu Gulager, Vera Miles, James Read, Marilyn Kagan. SYNOPSIS: When a college prank goes wrong a group of teenage girls find themselves at the mercy of a killer. Originally released during the dying breaths of the first run of slasher films, The Initiation is a […]
Sandman adaptation loses its screenwriter as “it needs to go to TV” rather than a movie
Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema’s planned adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman comic book series has hit another stumbling block, with screenwriter Eric Heisserer (A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Thing) exiting the project after coming to the conclusion that it is better suited as a TV series rather than a movie. “I had many […]
Star Wars Rebels Season 3 Episode 6 Review – ‘Imperial Super Commandos’
Chris Cooper reviews the sixth episode of Star Wars Rebels season 3… Despite the rather bombastic sounding title and plenty of Mandalorian action, Imperial Super Commandos has a lot more going for it than great visuals. For a start the voice cast is great this week. I knew I recognised two of the voices so […]
DVD Review – The Code: The Complete Season Two
The Code: Season Two Created by Shelley Birse Starring Dan Spielman, Ashley Zukerman, Adele Perovic, Anthony LaPaglia, Sigrid Thornton, Robyn Malcolm and Ella Scott Lynch. SYNOPSIS: Two brothers, a jaded journalist and an autistic computer hacker, faced with the prospect of extradition to the US, are forced into making complex decisions taking in political unrest, […]
Review – Jurassic Park live at the Royal Albert Hall
Sean Wilson reviews the concert performance of John Williams’ classic dinosaur blockbuster score… Assessing a film score is a tricky thing – does one applaud an orchestral soundtrack for drawing attention to itself, or for remaining steadfastly unobtrusive and part of the fabric of the movie in question? It’s especially tricky when assessing the work […]
Sylvester Stallone replaces Robert De Niro in Idol’s Eye
THR has revealed that Sylvester Stallone is replacing his Cop Land co-star Robert De Niro in director Olivier Assayas’ (Personal Shopper) heist thriller Idol’s Eye, where he’ll star alongside Robert Pattinson (Twilight) and Rachel Weisz (The Light Between Oceans). The film sees Pattinson as “a thief who unknowingly steals a blue diamond from Chicago mob […]
Samuel L. Jackson joins Travis Fimmel in sci-fi Inversion
Variety is reporting that Samuel L. Jackson is in talks to join the cast of Inversion, a new $130 million-budgeted sci-fi from director Peter Segal (Grudge Match), which has Travis Fimmel (Vikings) and Liu Yifei (Once Upon a Time) also attached to star. The film will revolve around Fimmel’s “street-wise American con man who teams […]
Adam Driver and Rooney Mara to star in Leos Carax’s Annette
In news coming out of the American Film Market, Adam Driver (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) and Rooney Mara (Carol) are to star in Annette, the English-language debut of Holy Motors director Leos Carax, which also has Rihanna (Home) set to feature in a minor role According to Variety, Annette “depicts the rise and fall […]
Chris Claremont blames the Marvel Cinematic Universe for the decline of the X-Men
During his 17 year stint as writer on X-Men, Chris Claremont was responsible for penning some of the most iconic and acclaimed stories in Marvel’s history, as well as co-writing 1991’s X-Men #1, which remains the biggest selling comic book of all time. This paved the way for X-Men: The Animated Series the following year, with […]
