According to Entertainment Weekly, Arrow‘s version of the Suicide Squad, which includes characters like John Diggle, Deadshot, Bronze Tiger, and Shrapnel, will gain a few more members this season. When speaking about Diggle’s role this year, EW stated… “Speaking of A.R.G.U.S., I hear there will be new faces joining the Suicide Squad this season.” So, who […]
TIFF 2014 Review – 1001 Grams (2014)
1001 Grams, 2014. Directed by Bent Hamer. Starring Ane Dahl Torp, Laurent Stocker, Stein Winge, Hildegun Riise, Per Christian Ellefsen, Peter Hudson, Dinara Droukarova, Christian Erickson, Didier Flamand, and Magne Håvard Brekke. SYNOPSIS: A recently divorced, work-obsessed lab technician finds herself encountering a whole new world of experience when she attends an important scientific conference in Paris. […]
TIFF 2014 Review – Pawn Sacrifice (2014)
Pawn Sacrifice, 2014. Directed by Edward Zwick. Starring Tobey Maguire, Peter Sarsgaard, Liev Schreiber, and Michael Stuhlbarg. SYNOPSIS: American chess phenomenon Bobby Fischer squares off against his Russian rival Boris Spassky in the 1972 “Match of the Century” in Reykjavik, Iceland. Archival news footage talks about the disappearance of Bobby Fischer who is competing for the […]
TIFF 2014 Review – Red Army (2014)
Red Army, 2014. Directed by Gabe Polsky. Starring Slava Fetisov, Vladislav Tretiak, Scotty Bowman, and Vladimir Pozner. SYNOPSIS: Following the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War, Red Army tells the story of the nation’s famed Red Army hockey team through the eyes of its captain Slava Fetisov. During the Cold War the Soviet […]
Karl Urban says Dredd Origins is a “definite possibility”
Over the past year and a half we’ve heard on several occasions that writer-producer Alex Garland and star Karl Urban have ambitions about returning to the world of Judge Dredd, despite the box office failure of 2012’s fan-pleasing reboot. Although producer Adi Shankar previously has stated that there’s a big question mark over a Dredd […]
TIFF 2014 Review – ’71 (2014)
’71, 2014. Directed by Yann Demange. Starring Jack O’Connell, Paul Anderson, Richard Dormer, Sean Harris, Barry Keoghan, Martin McCann, Charlie Murphy, and Sam Reid. SYNOPSIS: In the divided city of Belfast at the height of The Troubles, a rookie British soldier finds himself separated from his unit and lost in IRA-controlled territory. British soldiers are put […]
Robert Downey Jr. says there are no plans for Iron Man 4
Aside from Ant-Man, Captain America 3 and Guardians of the Galaxy 2, we’re still waiting for confirmation on the rest of the Phase Three line-up for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. We know that Doctor Strange and Thor 3 are both all but confirmed, but it seems we can rule out any possibility of a fourth […]
Movie Review – Before I Go to Sleep (2014)
Before I Go to Sleep, 2014. Directed by Rowan Joffe. Starring Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth, Mark Strong and Anne-Marie Duff. SYNOPSIS: A woman wakes up every day, remembering nothing as a result of a traumatic accident in her past. One day, new terrifying truths emerge that force her to question everyone around her. Here’s a […]
Are Americans too stupid for subtitles?
Anghus Houvouras on whether Americans are too stupid for subtitles… Recently Helen Mirren stirred some controversy while discussing her latest film, The Hundred-Foot Journey. Mirren was hoping for the movie to be filmed in French, the native language of where the story is set. Sadly, that was not to be. As the lovely Ms. Mirren […]
Go behind the scenes of Disney’s unmade Roger Rabbit movie
Before director Robert Zemeckis, animation director Richard Williams and company brought Roger Rabbit to the screen with 1988’s Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Walt Disney Productions spent two years between 1981 and 1983 attempting to adapt Gary K. Wolf’s novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?. During that time, Disney developed test footage under animation director Darrell Van […]