Your weekend edition of The Week in Star Wars has a look at the costumes for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Harrison Ford presenting Star Wars Land, more movies after Episode IX and writer-director Kevin Smith’s role in Star Wars: The Force Awakens is finally revealed…We’re kicking things off this week by looking – get this […]
Mary Elizabeth Winstead talks 10 Cloverfield Lane
Earlier this month Paramount Pictures and Bad Robot Productions dropped a major surprise when it release the trailer for 10 Cloverfield Lane, the sequel / “blood relative” to the cult 2009 monster movie.Speaking to Entertainment Weekly at the SAG Awards, star Mary Elizabeth Winstead has been speaking about the secretive nature of the movie:“There is […]
Hasbro and Netflix team for animated Stretch Armstrong series
With Hasbro failing to get its planned live-action Stretch Armstrong movie off the ground, it has now been announced that the company is teaming with Netflix for an animated series entitled Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters. Here’s the official series description from the press release: From Hasbro Studios comes an animated action/comedy series about […]
Ryan Reynolds says Deadpool got the green light within 24 hours of the test footage leaking
After more than a decade in development, 20th Century Fox finally gave the green light to Deadpool in 2014, after some early test footage leaked online and sent the internet into a frenzy. Appearing on The Graham Norton Show (via Comic Book), star Ryan Reynolds discussed the overwhelmingly positive fan reaction to the test footage, and revealed that it […]
Kim Basinger joins Fifty Shades Darker as Christian Grey’s ex
Universal Pictures has announced that Kim Basinger has signed on to appear in the upcoming Fifty Shades of Grey sequel Fifty Shades Darker, where she’ll play the character of Elena Lincoln, a business partner and former lover of Christian Grey. Fifty Shades Darker sees James Foley taking over directing duties from Sam Taylor-Johnson, while both […]
Movie Review – Jane Got a Gun (2016)
Jane Got A Gun, 2016.Directed by Gavin O’Connor. Starring Natalie Portman, Joel Edgerton, Noah Emmerich, Rodrigo Santoro, Boyd Holbrook, and Ewan McGregor.SYNOPSIS:A woman asks her ex-lover for help in order to save her outlaw husband from a gang out to kill him.Jane Got a Gun was riddled with production delays and other issues (even key […]
The X-Files Season 10 Episode 1 Review – ‘My Struggle’
Martin Carr reviews the first episode of The X-Files season 10…Just before we get into this I should make one thing clear. For me The X-Files was never a big deal. Sure it was on the cultural radar and Chris Carter is a name I recognised post 1994. But in terms of drawing me in […]
A Critical Look At British Box Office Figures
This week Neil Calloway casts a critical eye over the latest British box office statistics…On Friday the BFI released the statistics for 2015 at the UK box office. The headlines that came with it showed that it was a record year at the box office in the UK and Ireland (similarly to the way the […]
Ricky Whittle to play Shadow Moon in American Gods
Starz has found its lead for its upcoming adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods, with Ricky Whittle (The 100) signing on to play the novel’s hero Shadow Moon.“I’m thrilled that Ricky has been cast as Shadow,” said Gaiman His auditions were remarkable. The process of taking a world out of the pages of a book, […]
Supergirl Season 1 Episode 10 Review – ‘Childish Things’
Martin Carr reviews the tenth episode of Supergirl…A few things have caused me to cast aside trivial preoccupations. The double departure of David Bowie and Alan Rickman has knocked me for six. Whilst the red band trailer for Deadpool and Hard R rated lip synch rendition of ‘Pony’ by one Jenna Dewan Tatum, has shredded […]
