The Girl with All the Gifts, 2016. Directed by Colm McCarthy. Starring Gemma Arterton, Glenn Close, Paddy Considine and Sennia Nanua. SYNOPSIS: A scientist and a teacher living in a dystopian future embark on a journey of survival with a special young girl named Melanie. The Girl with All the Gifts left me feeling cold upon first […]
Movie Review – Imperium (2016)
Imperium, 2016. Directed by Daniel Ragussis. Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Toni Collette, Tracy Letts, Burn Gorman, Sam Trammell, Nestor Carbonell, Chris Sullivan, Seth Numrich and Adam Meier. SYNOPSIS: Nate Foster (Daniel Radcliffe), a young, idealistic FBI agent, goes undercover to take down a radical right-wing terrorist group. The bright up-and-coming analyst must confront the challenge of […]
Second Opinion – Bridget Jones’s Baby (2016)
Bridget Jones’s Baby, 2016. Directed by Sharon Maguire. Starring Renee Zellwegger, Colin Firth, Patrick Dempsey, Emma Thompson, Jim Broadbent, Sarah Solemani, Gemma Jones and Jim Broadbent. SYNOPSIS: Bridget’s focus on single life is interrupted when she finds out she’s pregnant, and she’s not sure who the father is. Fifteen years ago the first Bridget Jones […]
Video Game Review – Dear Esther: Landmark Edition
Christopher Machell reviews Dear Esther: Landmark Edition… Originally created in 2007 as a Half-Life 2 mod and later re-made in 2012 as a commercial release for PC, Dear Esther: Landmark Edition has been a long time coming, marking the first time console gamers can play through developer The Chinese Room’s original walking simulator. The Brighton-based developers wowed and confounded gamers in […]
Evangeline Lilly and Adam Scott to star in Netflix horror comedy Little Evil
THR is reporting that Evangeline Lilly (Ant-Man) and Adam Scott (Other People) have signed on to star in Little Evil, a horror-comedy from writer-director Eli Craig (Tucker and Dale vs Evil), which is being produced by Netflix. The film will follow Gary (Scott), who discovers that his new wife Samantha’s (Lilly) 6-year-old son is the […]
Movie Review – Kickboxer: Vengeance (2016)
Kickboxer: Vengeance, 2016. Directed by John Stockwell. Starring Jean Claude Van-Damme, Alain Moussi, Dave Bautista, Gina Carano, Georges St-Pierre, Sara Malakul Lane, Darren Shahlavi and Matthew Ziff. SYNOPSIS: When his brother is killed during a Muay Thai tournament, a martial artist heads to Thailand to seek revenge. Jean-Claude Van Damme made a name for himself in the late […]
Scoot McNairy cast in Fargo season 3
Casting continues on the upcoming third season of FX’s Fargo, with showrunner Noah Hawley revealing that Scott McNairy (Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Halt and Catch Fire) is set to appear in an as-yet-unrevealed role. Details on the third season of Fargo are being kept under wraps, but the cast is coming together, with […]
Marvel’s Star Wars comic to explore Yoda’s past
The official Star Wars site has revealed that Marvel’s ongoing comic book series is set to give us a peek into one of the unexplored aspects of the galaxy far, far away as it delves into a pre-Phantom Menace adventure for Jedi Master Yoda. The new arc will get underway in Star Wars #26 from writer Jason Aaron […]
Game of Thrones showrunners rule out involvement with potential spinoff: “For us, this is it”
Game of Thrones scooped the Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series for the second consecutive year last night (and in the process, set a new record as the most decorated TV show in Emmy history). The epic fantasy series has just two seasons remaining, but given its incredible success, there’s been a lot of speculation […]
John Hurt joins Lenny McLean biopic My Name Is Lenny
Salon Pictures has announced that Academy Award-nominated and BAFTA-winning actor John Hurt has joined the cast of My Name Is Lenny, the upcoming biopic of bare-knuckle fighter Lenny McLean. X-Men: Apocalypse star Josh Helman leads the cast as The Guv’nor, with Chanel Cresswell (This Is England ’90) playing his wife Val and UFC Middleweight Champion […]
