Deadline is today reporting that Scarlett Johansson is in talks with Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment to star in The Psychopath Test, an adaptation of the novel by Jon Ronson. Austin Powers director Jay Roach is set to direct the adaptation, which is being written by Kristen Gore (Accidental Love) and produced by Oscar winner […]
Agent Carter Season 1 Episode 7 Review – ‘Snafu’
Amy Richau reviews the seventh episode of Agent Carter… This week’s episode of Agent Carter, “Snafu”, was a bit of a bust for me until the last 10 minutes. While there were a lot of things going on in the episode, I felt that the show was going through the motions more than truly entertaining […]
Across the Pondcast: What ever happened to Johnny Depp making good movies?
Across the Pondcast discusses… This week, the Across the Pondcast looks at the career of Johnny Depp and asks where it started to derail. Anghus (US) and Rohan (UK) pick out their favourite of Depp’s performances and then discuss what he can do to try and revive his flailing career in the wake of his latest […]
Amazon Studios orders five pilots to series
Amazon has today announced that based upon customer feedback on its 2015 pilots, it has placed orders for full seasons of The Man in the High Castle (which happens to be Amazon’s most-viewed pilot of all-time), Mad Dogs, The New Yorker Presents, Just Add Magic and The Stinky & Dirty Show. “During the latest pilot […]
Comic Book Review – IXth Generation #2
Villordsutch reviews IXth Generation #2… Aphrodite IX has the Witchblade and several other Artifacts have also appeared, destroying the delicately balanced utopia. Who is wielding the Darkness and why is it so hellbent on killing all of the IXs? To start on a positive with IXth Generation #2, the art from Stjepan Sejic is absolutely […]
Comic Book Review – 13 Coins #5
Villordsutch reviews 13 Coins #5… With Armageddon just around the corner, it’s time for John Pozner – our planet’s only hope against the coming holy skirmish – to step up and prove his worth in the eyes of the angels. But will he survive the trials ahead of him or be cast into bloody oblivion? […]
Movie Review – The Duke of Burgundy (2014)
The Duke of Burgundy, 2014. Directed by Peter Strickland. Starring Sidse Babett Knudsen, Chiara D’Anna, Fatma Mohamed, Eugenia Caruso and Monica Swinn. SYNOPSIS: Two lovers engage in a ritualistic passage of behaviour that brings one close to obsession and one looking for a way out… Peter Strickland is without a shadow of a doubt one of the […]
Movie Review – The Wedding Ringer (2015)
The Wedding Ringer, 2015 Directed by Jeremy Garelick Starring Kevin Hart, Josh Gad, Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting, Olivia Thirlby, Alan Ritchson, Josh Peck, Cloris Leachman and Jorge Garcia SYNOPSIS: Two weeks shy of his wedding, a socially awkward guy enters into a charade by hiring the owner of a company that provides best men for grooms in […]
Dan Aykroyd defends Ghostbusters remake, “I believe in female empowerment”
Paul Feig’s all-female Ghostbusters remake is really facing an uphill struggle if the comments from the more vocal fans are anything to go by. We’ve already heard Ernie Hudson denounce the movie and then change his mind, but we’ve also heard more positive thoughts from original Ghostbusters co-writer and star Dan Aykroyd. “The Aykroyd family […]
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales goes into production; synopsis and cast revealed
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales has officially gone into production and Disney has now revealed the official synopsis and cast for the fifth instalment of the blockbuster franchise… Thrust into an all-new adventure, a down-on-his-luck Captain Jack Sparrow finds the winds of ill-fortune blowing even more strongly when deadly ghost pirates […]
