The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that streaming service Crackle has ordered a ten-episode TV series based upon Guy Ritchie’s 2000 crime caper Snatch. The site reports that the series will follow the blueprint laid out by FX’s Fargo series in that it will “carry the spirit” of the original movie, but following new characters. The series will […]
Movie Review – Friend Request (2016)
Friend Request, 2016. Directed by Simon Verhoeven. Starring Alycia Debnam-Carey, William Moseley, Connor Paolo, Brit Morgan, Brooke Markham, Sean Marquette, and Liesl Ahlers. SYNOPSIS: Enjoying college life as a popular student, Laura shares everything with her more than 800 friends on Facebook. But one day, after accepting a friend request from a social outcast named Marina, […]
R.I.P. Guy Hamilton (1922 – 2016)
British filmmaker Guy Hamilton – best known for directing the Bond movies Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever, Live and Let Die and The Man with the Golden Gun, has passed away, aged 93. Beginning his career as an assistant director to Carol Reed on The Fallen Idol, The Third Man and Outcast of the Islands, Hamilton made […]
Blu-ray Review – Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
Only Angels Have Wings, 1939. Directed by Howard Hawks. Starring Cary Grant, Jean Arthur and Rita Hayworth. SYNOPSIS: A small airline has a dangerous route, but Captain Geoff Carter has no choice but to send his team through the region. That’s until Bonnie Lee turns up and his world is turned upside down… Is […]
Nina Dobrev in talks for Flatliners remake
Deadline is reporting that Nina Dobrev (The Vampire Diaries) is in talks to join Sony’s upcoming reboot of the 1990 psychological thriller Flatliners. The film, which is being directed by Niels Arden Oplev (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), has already cast Ellen Page (X-Men: Days of Future Past) and Diego Luna (Rogue One: A […]
Crackle renews SuperMansion for second season
Streaming service Crackle has announced that it has renewed the stop motion superhero comedy series SuperMansion for a second season. Produced by Stoopid Buddy Stoodios, SuperMansion follows the adventures of Titanium Rex (voiced by Bryan Cranston) as he struggles to live with and fight alongside the Millennial-aged, often lackadaisical members of The League of Freedom. […]
Movie Review – Miles Ahead (2015)
Miles Ahead ,2015. Directed by Don Cheadle. Starring Don Cheadle, Ewan McGregor, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Michael Stuhlbarg and Keith Stanfield. SYNOPSIS: With a string of successful albums behind him and legions of fans clamouring for more, trumpeter and composer Miles Davis has disappeared from public view. His inspiration has dried up and there’s nothing he can […]
Emilia Clarke says she won’t be back for more Terminator movies
It’s more bad news for the Terminator sequels. The original plan was for a trilogy of movies, but the producers announced shortly after Terminator: Genisys‘ release that the series was postponed, and then Paramount officially pulled the plug. This came off the back of Terminator: Genisys bombing at the box office, becoming one of the […]
Exclusive clip from British crime thriller Hard Tide
Thanks to Metrodome, we’ve got an exclusive clip from Nathanael Wiseman and Robert Osman’s Brit crime thriller Hard Tide, which you can watch right here… On the eve of a drugs war, a small time criminal is forced to go on the run with a neglected nine-year-old girl after a fatal accident. HARD TIDE tells […]
Domhnall Gleeson, Michelle Pfeiffer and Ed Harris join Jennifer Lawrence in Darren Aronofky’s new film
Variety is reporting that Darren Aronofsky is filling out the cast of his next film, adding Domhnall Gleeson (Ex Machina), Brian Gleeson (Snow White and the Huntsman), Michelle Pfeiffer (The Family) and Ed Harris (Run All Night) to the cast of the as-yet-untitled drama. The film, which Aronofsky will direct from his own script, already […]
