Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, 2015. Directed by Christopher McQuarrie. Starring Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Rebecca Ferguson, Sean Harris and Alec Baldwin. SYNOPSIS: Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet, eradicating the Syndicate – an International rogue organization as highly skilled as they are, committed to destroying the […]
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation opens to $56 million; second-biggest opening of the franchise
Having received a variety of rave reviews (read ours here and here and listen to the podcast review here), it seems as though there is still some life and fun to be had in the Mission: Impossible franchise. Early reports had it down that Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, the fifth in the series, would have […]
Blu-ray Review – Killing Zoe (1993)
Killing Zoe, 1993. Directed by Roger Avary. Starring Eric Stoltz, Julie Delpy, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Gary Kemp, Tai Thai, Bruce Ramsay and Ron Jeremy. SYNOPSIS: A safecracker arrives in Paris to help a friend with a bank heist but things spiral out of control very quickly. The POV camera driving through the streets of Paris, the […]
BoJack Horseman Season 2 Episode 6 Review – ‘Higher Love’
Jackson Ball reviews the sixth episode of Netflix’s BoJack Horseman season 2… Episode 6 of takes a classic narrative thread, found previously in many a sitcom, and mixes it up with all the craziness we’ve come to expect from the show. Never before has an episode revolving around autoerotic asphyxiation been so light-hearted! Spoiler Ahead […]
Sony remaking Stuart Little
According to The Tracking Board, Sony Pictures and Red Wagon Entertainment are teaming up to remake Stuart Little with a new hybrid live-action/animated movie “in the vein of John Hughes” (which sees to be popular these days at Sony, what with the tone of the new Spider-Man reboot). Based on the 1945 children’s novel from […]
Lucy Lawless “would love to see” Xena reboot
A couple of weeks ago it was reported that NBC is in development on a “modern reboot” of the hit 90s fantasy series Xena: Warrior Princess, only for star Lucy Lawless to dismiss the claim as a rumour. Now, speaking to Entertainment Weekly at the Television Critics Association summer press tour, Lawless has elaborated on […]
Alex Winter says Bill & Ted 3 “will be funnier because they’re older”
Back in 2012, the long-rumoured third Bill & Ted movie took a big step towards becoming a reality when it was announced that Dean Parisot (Galaxy Quest) had signed on to direct the returning Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves as Bill S. Preston, Esq. and Ted ‘Theodore’ Logan. Since that time the project seems to […]
The Fantastic Four Film You Weren’t Meant To See
With the forthcoming Fantastic Four movie about to arrive in cinemas, Neil Calloway looks at a doomed attempt to start the franchise… The latest Fantastic Four film is the second attempt to reproduce the comic characters on the big screen; everyone knows about the film made in 2005 and its 2007 sequel, both of which […]
Ian McShane joins Game of Thrones season 6
Emmy Award-winning actor Ian McShane (Deadwood, Ray Donovan) has joined the cast of HBO’s epic fantasy series Game of Thrones for its upcoming sixth season. SEE ALSO: Game of Thrones will run for at least eight seasons Although character details are being kept tightly under wraps, Entertainment Weekly is suggesting that McShane will have “a […]
The Week in Star Wars – Sherlock star joins Rogue One, Netflix rumours and a first look at Ken Leung in The Force Awakens
This edition of The Week of Star Wars sees a Sherlock star joining the cast of Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One, some rumours surrounding a Netflix spin-off series and a first look at Ken Leung in Star Wars: The Force Awakens… Kicking things off this week, we got the news that Sherlock star Jonathan Aris […]
