Logan Marshall-Green (Prometheus) has signed on to star in Stem, a sci-fi thriller from writer-director Leigh Whannell (Saw, Insidious), which is set to go into production in Whannell’s home town of Melbourne, Australia.THR is reporting that the project “is set in a near-future when technology controls nearly all aspects of life and centers on a […]
12 Days of Christmas Horror: Day 6 – Child’s Play (1988)
Child’s Play, 1988. Directed by Tom Holland. Starring Brad Dourif, Alex Vincent, Catherine Hicks and Chris Sarandon. SYNOPSIS: Widowed mother Karen is eager for her young son Andy to have the best birthday possible so she buys him a Good Guy doll named Chucky, a toy that Andy had been desperate to have. After her […]
Blu-ray Review – Hellgate (1989)
Hellgate, 1989. Directed by William A. Levey. Starring Ron Palillo, Abigail Wolcott, Carel Trichardt, Petrea Curran and Evan J. Klisser. SYNOPSIS: A beautiful young woman murdered in the 1950s by a motorcycle gang returns from the dead after her father finds a magic crystal to revive her. In the 1950s a ruthless biker gang kidnap […]
Will Smith suffers worst box office opening of his career with Collateral Beauty
Will Smith may have enjoyed a solid box office hit earlier in the year with Warner Bros.’ DC ensemble Suicide Squad giving him the biggest opening weekend of his career, but he’s ended 2016 on a sour note, with his new film Collateral Beauty doing the exact opposite. The movie, which sees Smith starring alongside […]
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them tops $700 million worldwide
While Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was topping the charts around the globe, Warner Bros.’ Harry Potter spinoff Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them passed another box office milestone this weekend as it crossed the $700 million mark worldwide.Fantastic Beasts has grossed $207.7 million domestically and now has a total of $717.5 million […]
Video Game Review – Space Hulk: Deathwing
Andy O’Flaherty reviews Space Hulk: Deathwing… Ever since the original Space Hulk board-game was released by Games Workshop in 1989 there have been many computer games that have born the name, and pretty much all of them have been slow-paced strategic titles that require patience and planning to succeed. For those familiar with Space Hulk, […]
Blu-ray Review – Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988)
Hell Comes to Frogtown, 1988. Directed by Donald G. Jackson & R.J. Kizer. Starring Roddy Piper, Sandahl Bergman, Julius LeFlore, RCB, William Smith and Brian Frank. SYNOPSIS: In a post-nuclear war USA, a fertile man is sent into mutant territory to rescue the last fertile women in the country in order to replenish the human […]
A TV remake of Single White Female is in development
It looks like Single White Female is the latest movie set for a small screen adaptation, with THR revealing that NBC is in development on a reboot of the 1992 thriller, which starred Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh.The network has given a script commitment to the project, which will be written by Eric Garcia […]
Jonah Hill and Rooney Mara join Joaquin Phoenix in Gus Van Sant’s new film
Variety is reporting that Jonah Hill and Rooney Mara have joined Joaquin Phoenix in Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot, director Gus Van Sant’s upcoming biopic of quadriplegic cartoonist John Callahan. The project is based upon the 1989 autobiography of Callahan, who became paralyzed aged 21 after a car accident and turning to art […]
R.I.P. Zsa Zsa Gabor (1917 – 2016)
Hungarian-born actress and socialite Zsa Zsa Gabor has passed away aged 99, having suffered a heart attack at her home after several years of illness. Known for her nine marriages and her glamorous, larger than life celebrity persona as much as her acting work, the former beauty queen enjoyed moderate success on the big screen, appearing in […]
