Me Before You, 2016. Directed by Thea Sharrock. Starring Emilia Clarke, Sam Claflin, Janet McTeer, Jenna Coleman, Brendan Coyle, Samantha Spiro, Matthew Lewis, Stephen Peacocke and Charles Dance. SYNOPSIS: A girl in a small town forms an unlikely bond with a recently-paralysed man she’s taking care of. Many filmgoers’ thoughts on a new lovey-dovey film […]
Disney developing a live-action Delilah Dirk movie
Entertainment Weekly is reporting that Disney has snapped up the rights to Delilah Dirk, a graphic novel series from Tony Cliff, and is developing a live-action movie for the swashbuckling heroine who has been described as “a female Indiana Jones”. Described as the “international mistress of swordsmanship”, Delilah made her debut in 2013’s New York […]
The Week in Spandex – X-Men: Apocalypse box office, Wolverine 3 villains, Chris Evans keen on Spider-Man cameo, Joss Whedon open to female Avengers movie, Wesley Snipes on Blade return, Suicide Squad promo artwork, Stephen Amell wants Arrow to go back-to-basics and more
In this edition of The Week in Spandex, we look at X-Men: Apocalypse, X-Force, Wolverine 3, Captain America: Civil War, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Animated Spider-Man, Thor: Ragnarok, Captain Marvel, Black Panther, Blade, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, Daredevil, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Batman, The Flash, Arrow, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow and more… Having opened in […]
Interview: Warcraft stars Travis Fimmel and Paula Patton
The eagerly-anticipated release of Warcraft is finally upon us, with the first film based on the hugely successful video-game series opening in the UK this coming week [read our review here]. Directed by Duncan Jones (Source Code, Moon), Warcraft tells the beginning of the war of Azeroth, a peaceful realm that stands on the brink […]
The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #92 – Green Beret
Villordsutch counts down Your Sinclair’s Top 100 ZX Spectrum Games… After the quite frankly bit of a let-down that was Gyron yesterday, we arrive at number #92 and instantly a smile is smacked back onto our faces – however it rapidly hits you that Green Beret really should be higher in the list than this! […]
Colin Firth to star in submarine disaster drama Kursk
Variety is reporting that Colin Firth (Kingsman: The Secret Service) is in talks to join the submarine disaster drama Kursk, which also has Matthias Schoenaerts (The Danish Girl) attached to star. Kursk is being directed by Thomas Vinterberg (Far from the Madding Crowd) from a script by Robert Rodat (Saving Private Ryan), and “tells the […]
Jake Gyllenhaal and Denis Villeneuve reuniting for Jo Nesbo’s The Son
Having collaborated on both Prisoners and Enemy, director Denis Villeneueve and star Jake Gyllenhaal are set to reunite for an adaptation of Norwegian crime writer Jo Nesbo’s The Son. Variety reports that the project follows “a once-gifted 15-year-old and promising wrestler, whose life spirals out of control when his cop father commits suicide. He winds […]
Chris O’Dowd and Zhang Ziyi join the J.J. Abrams-produced God Particle
Casting continues on Bad Robot Productions’ sci-fi thriller God Particle, with Chris O’Dowd (Bridesmaids) and Zhang Ziyi (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) signing on to appear in the J.J. Abrams-produced project. The duo join the already announced David Oyelowo (Selma), Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Concussion), John Krasinski (13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi), Elizabeth Debicki (The Night […]
Rumour: Sony’s animated Spider-Man movie to focus on Miles Morales
Before Tom Holland was cast as Spider-Man in Captain America: Civil War, there was a tonne of speculation suggesting that Marvel would cast a non-white actor in the role, and perhaps even go down the Miles Morales route as opposed to Peter Parker. Well, of course that never came to pass, but if Heroic Hollywood […]
Bryan Singer rules out a director’s cut of X-Men: Apocalypse, talks deleted scenes
With X-Men: Apocalypse opening in the States today, director Bryan Singer has been chatting to Fandango about the movie, during which he confirmed that unlike X-Men: Days of Future Past, there will be not additional director’s cut or extended version of his latest foray into the world of the X-Men. “There will be nothing like […]
