Beloved 90s cartoon Rocko’s Modern Life is set to return to the small screen, with Entertainment Weekly reporting that Nickelodeon has given the green light to a one-hour TV movie special, which will see the return of creator Joe Murray as director and executive producer. “I’m very happy to be rejoining Rocko and my friends […]
Movie Review – Anthropoid (2016)
Anthropoid, 2016. Directed by Sean Ellis. Starring Cillian Murphy, Jamie Dornan, Anna Geislerová, Charlotte Le Bon and Alena Mihulová. SYNOPSIS: Based on the true story of WWII’s Operation Anthropoid, where resistance fighters in Czechoslovakia attempted to assassinate “Butcher of Prague,” SS General Reinhard Heydrich. According to Oxford Dictionaries, “anthropoid” means “resembling a human being in form.” In Sam […]
DVD Review – Identicals (2015)
Identicals, 2015. Written and directed by Simon Pummell. Starring Nora-Jane Noone, Nick Blood and Lachlan Nieboer. SYNOPSIS: None Of Us Are As Unique As We Think. Identicals is a highly unconventional romantic thriller: an obsessive love story stripped down and re-arranged into the looping logic of a nightmare. From British writer-director Simon Pummell, Identicals seeks to […]
The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #13 – Chuckie Egg
After being chased around Antescher in Ant Attack yesterday, we barely get time for a breather as we load up the next game in the Your Sinclair Top 100 and discover that No.13 also involves us being the prey for something else – this time chickens! We’ve stumbled into the giant chicken coop that is […]
McG says Masters of the Universe will be his next movie and compares it to Guardians of the Galaxy
After spending an eternity in Development Hell (or should that be, Eternia in Development Hell?), director McG has announced the his Masters of the Universe reboot is finally making some movement. “It’s a very exciting moment for Masters Of The Universe,” he told IGN. “We have a big meeting with Sony regarding prep of the […]
DVD Review – Men & Chicken (2015)
Men & Chicken, 2015. Directed by Anders Thomas Jensen. Starring Mads Mikkelsen, David Dencik, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Soren Malling and Nicolas Bro. SYNOPSIS: Two outcast brothers, through getting to know their unknown family, discover a horrible truth about themselves and their relatives. Pushing the concept of dysfunctional family through an outlandish filter, Men & Chicken is […]
John Williams will begin scoring Star Wars: Episode VIII in a few weeks
At 84 years of age, John Williams is one of the oldest living movie music composers, but that isn’t going to stop him from returning to the Star Wars franchise for the eighth time in about four decades to score 2017’s Star Wars: Episode VIII. In fact, during a show at the Tanglewood in Massachusetts […]
Suicide Squad suffers big drop but fends off Sausage Party to stay top of the box office
After smashing the August box office opening record last weekend, Warner Bros.’ Suicide Squad managed to fend off competition from the adult animated comedy Sausage Party to hold on to top spot domestically, but much like the previous instalment of the DC Extended Universe, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, it suffered a rather steep […]
Ezra Miller on working with Rick Famuyiwa and Kiersey Clemons on The Flash
Having popped up briefly in both Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Suicide Squad, Ezra Miller’s Barry Allen will step into the spotlight fully next year with the release of Justice League, before headlining The Flash the following year. As production continues on the Zack Snyder-helmed ensemble, MTV caught up with Miller to get a […]
Second Opinion – The Shallows (2016)
The Shallows, 2016. Directed by Jaume Collet Serra. Starring Blake Lively, Oscar Jaenada, Brett Cullen and Sedona Lodge. SYNOPSIS: A mere 200 yards from shore, surfer Nancy is attacked by a great white shark, with her short journey to safety becoming the ultimate contest of wills. When I first heard about The Shallows, my […]
