UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 16th August to Sunday 18th August 2015… Adam Sandler’s sci-fi comedy Pixels topped the UK box office chart with £2,660,772 from its opening “weekend”, which happens to include four days of previews, which accounted for £1.33 million of that figure.If it wasn’t for […]
Comic Book Review – Doctor Who: Four Doctors #2
Villordsutch reviews Doctor Who: Four Doctors #2…As any Who fan – old or new – will be aware Doctor Who can often involve a lot of running. Generally it involves getting from A to B whilst rapidly explaining the situation and how the Doctor and present company will eventually get out of their sticky conundrum. […]
Anne Hathaway heading to the small screen for limited series The Ambassador’s Wife
Variety is reporting that Oscar winner Anne Hathaway is making the move to the small screen and is set to star in limited series The Ambassador’s Wife for eOne.Based on the novel by Jennifer Steil, which has only recently been published, The Ambassador’s Wife tells the story of a “British woman who is kidnapped in […]
R.I.P Yvonne Craig (1937 – 2015)
We are sad to report this morning the passing of Yvonne Craig, who has died at the age of 78. Her official website broke the news.Craig was perhaps best known for her role as Batgirl in the 1960’s Batman TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward. She also featured in the Star Trek episode […]
Original version of Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four had Galactus, Mole Man, Herbie the Robot, the Fantasticar and Doctor Doom as a Latverian dictator
Like Tim Burton’s Superman Lives or James Cameron’s Spider-Man, we will never see the true version of Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four. Among the many public problems the film has had in the last couple of weeks (see here, here, here, here, here and here), it was revealed by screenwriter Jeremy Slater that not much of his script was […]
Comic Book Review – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #49
Chris Cooper reviews Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #49…“A final battle looms as Karai decrees a “Gauntlet” battle between ancient foes Splinter and Shredder but first the Turtles must defeat the Foot mutants— Koya, Bludgeon, Bebop & Rocksteady!”Though this issue is hugely riveting, with great art and a thrilling conclusion, I couldn’t help but come away […]
Rebecca Ferguson to star in The Girl On the Train, out of the running for Gambit
After her stellar break-out performance in this summer’s Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, actress Rebecca Ferguson is in talks to star in The Girl On the Train, reports Deadline.Tate Taylor (The Help) is directing the film based on the novel by Paula Hawkins, and Ferguson will take on one of three main female roles in […]
Ving Rhames joins ensemble comedy Bastards
Deadline is reporting that Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation star Ving Rhames is set to join the ever-expanding cast of new film Bastards.The comedy, which will see cinematographer Lawrence Sher (Garden State) make his directorial debut, has already secured the talents of Ed Helms (Vacation), Owen Wilson (Zoolander 2) and J.K. Simmons (Whiplash).The site says […]
Sharon Stone joins Running Wild
ESX Entertainment has announced that Sharon Stone (Basic Instinct, Casino) has signed on to appear in the drama Running Wild, which is to be directed by Alex Ranarivelo (The Wrong Side of Right). Running Wild tells the story of Stella Davis, a widow who saves her ranch by working with convicts to rehabilitate a herd […]
Leonardo DiCaprio’s Finest Roles
This year marks over 25 years since Hollywood superstar Leonardo DiCaprio made his acting debut. As a fresh faced, ambitious teen, DiCaprio appeared in several family soap operas in the early 1990s that had decent runs, including Parenthood and Growing Pains. A quarter of a century later and two Golden Globe wins for Best Actor […]
