In Order of Disappearance, 2014. Directed by Hans Petter Moland. Starring Stellan Skarsgård, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen and Kristofer Hivju. SYNOPSIS: A grieving father hunts down those responsible for his sons death. This is a comedy. It’s got an international sensitivity so the humour, though dark and black, is tricky to navigate. In Order of Disappearance, […]

After years in front of the camera with her roles in Dawson’s Creek, The Gift and Batman Begins, Katie Holmes has now set her sights on getting behind the camera and is set to direct an adaptation of Annie Weatherwax’s debut novel All We Had, the story of a poverty-striken mother and daughter who find […]

In a strange Marvel team-up, Elizabeth Olsen (Avengers: Age of Ultron, Godzilla) has signed on to join Tom “Loki” Hiddleston (The Avengers, Only Lovers Left Alive) in the upcoming Hank Williams biopic, I Saw The Light. Olsen has been signed to play Williams’ wife, Audrey Mae, in the film, which is being co-produced by Brett […]

The Boxtrolls, 2014. Directed by Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi. Starring Isaac Hempstead-Wright, Elle Fanning, Ben Kingsley, Jared Harris, Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, Tracy Morgan, Richard Ayoade and Dee Bradley Baker. SYNOPSIS: Boxtrolls, and human-box-boy ‘Eggs’ need to stop the evil Archibald Snatcher from kidnapping their kind before it’s too late… Despicable Me has a […]

Lit Reactor today brings news that Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk’s 2007 novel Rant is to be adapted for the screen by actor/director James Franco (Spider-Man, Pineapple Express), who has picked up the rights. The author is quoted as saying: “As of last night we’ve finalized a deal for James Franco to option my novel […]

After news reached us earlier in the week that Oscar-winner Morgan Freeman is to star in Ted 2, it has emerged over the last 24 hours that the actor is keeping himself even busier, with word that the actor has become the first actor signed on to co-star ithe remake of Ben-Hur. MGM and Paramount’s upcoming […]

After their work together in The Wire, Idris Elba and Dominic West are to reunite and lend their voices to Disney and Pixar’s Finding Dory, the long-awaited sequel to 2003’s smash-hit Finding Nemo. “We’re both in the sequel to ‘Finding Nemo’” West revealed in an interview this week with Shortlist, “so we were recording that.” […]

The Flickering Myth writing team discuss the new Batmobile… After a few photos of the Batmobile for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice leaked online, a rather perturbed Zack Snyder took to Twitter and revealed the first official photo of the Batmobile in all of its glory. It seems to have split opinion among the […]

Luke Owen reviews the fifth episode of The Monday Night War on the WWE Network… Read the previous episode review here. Following the rather preposterous previous episode that claimed silly things about the influence D-Generation X had on the ratings war between WWF and WCW, we get a rather sweet look back at the career of […]

Oliver Davis reviews East of West #15… “THE GREAT BEAST” The son of Xiaolain and Death faces the Horsemen and becomes everything that the Message foretold. Apocalypse: Year One concludes with EAST OF WEST #15.” And just when you thought an epic battle was about to be waged between Texas and The Endless Nation…East of […]