Goddess, 2013. Directed by Mark Lamprell. Starring Laura Michelle Kelly, Ronan Keating, Magda Szubanski, Dustin Clare  and Hugo Johnstone-Burt. SYNOPSIS: A bored and listless mother of twin boys gets a webcam from her husband, so they can keep in touch whilst he’s at work. She starts to sing and dance on camera and becomes an […]

Bananaman is coming back, as is Danger Mouse. And now we can add another beloved 80s cartoon to that list, with the BBC announcing it is set to revive SuperTed. Original creator Mike Young is behind the new run of 26 episodes, and it is hoped that original voice actors Derek Griffiths (SuperTed) and Melvyn […]

According to THR, George Clooney has set his sights on his next project, a drug smuggling film called Coronado High. Clooney will produce the film along with Grant Heslov (The Monuments Men) and David Klawans (Argo). Grey’s Anatomy and The West Wing writer Debora Cahn will pen the screenplay, which is an adaptation of a Atavist article by Joshua […]

Back in January Quentin Tarantino was all set to follow up Django Unchained with another Western – that is until Gawker posted a leaked version of the script for The Hateful Eight online, with Quentin then deciding to take his ball home and put the brakes on the film. A few months later at Cannes, […]

Haunter, 2013. Directed by Vincenzo Natali. Starring Abigail Breslin, Sarah Manninen, David Hewlett, Stephen McHattie, Peter DaCunha, Michelle Nolden, Eleanor Zichy and Peter Outerbridge. SYNOPSIS: The ghost of a teenager who died years ago reaches out to the land of the living in order to save someone from suffering her same fate. In a genre […]

The Driver, 1978. Written and Directed by Walter Hill. Starring Ryan O’Neal, Bruce Dern, Isabelle Adjani and Ronee Blakley. SYNOPSIS: The Driver is the cat and mouse story of a professional wheelman (Ryan O’Neal) and the eccentric cop (Bruce Dern) who has become obsessed with putting his man behind bars. This was my first time […]

Video Nasties: Draconian Days, 2014 Directed by Jake West SYNOPSIS: A documentary that covers James Ferman’s run as the Head of the BBFC and the fallout from the Video Recording Act of 1984. The sequel to Jake West and Marc Morris’ Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship and Videotape sees the pair take on the James […]

On Friday, it was announced that NBC had decided to axe its female lead in the upcoming DC series Constantine, with Lucy Griffths’ (True Blood) original character Liv axed after just one episode in order to facilitate the introduction of Hellblazer regular Zed. Well, producers Daniel Cerone and David S. Goyer have wasted little time […]

Vampire Academy, 2014 Directed by Mark Waters Starring Zoey Deutch, Lucy Fry, Danila Kozlovsky, Gabriel Byrne, Dominic Sherwood, Olga Kurylenko, Sarah Hyland and Cameron Monaghan SYNOPSIS: Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, half human-half vampire, a guardian of the Moroi, peaceful, mortal vampires living discreetly within our world. Her calling is to protect the Moroi from bloodthirsty, […]

When the nominations for the Emmys were announced last week, there was one show that was seemingly missing from the list based on the reaction of its fans – Sons of Anarchy. In a guest post on NikkiFinke.com, the show’s creator Kurt Sutter went on a (fairly foul-mouthed) rant about being snubbed once again. “Honestly – […]