Yesterday, we received a rather nasty email from a legal representative from 20th Century Fox demanding that we remove the “purported plot details” regarding the studio’s upcoming reboot of The Fantastic Four, despite the fact that director Josh Trank had previously debunked a synopsis (which we can’t show you here, but a quick Google search […]

Bronies: The Extremely Unexpected Adult Fans of My Little Pony, 2012. Directed by Laurent Malaquais. SYNOPSIS: A film profiling the unusual cross-demographic fandom of the ostensibly girl oriented television series, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. History has shown us that the Internet and the media can be pretty cruel when it comes to fads and […]

After bagging a pair of Oscar nominations for Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill look set to reunite for the tale of Richard Jewell, a security guard whose life was torn apart by the media after discovering a bomb in the Olympic compound in Atlanta back in 1996 and […]

Having secured Jesse L. Martin (Law & Order) for the role of Detective West, The CW’s upcoming pilot The Flash has now found its Iris West, with Candice Patton (The Game) set to link up with Grant Gustin’s Barry Allen in the planned Arrow spin-off. Patton becomes the latest name to join the cast after […]

Leon: The Professional, 1994. Directed by Luc Besson.Starring Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, Natalie Portman, and Danny Aiello. SYNOPSIS:Leon (Jean Reno) is a solitary assassin living under the employ of Italian gangster Tony (Danny Aiello). After hideously corrupt DEA agent Norman Stansfield (Gary Oldman) slaughters a mostly innocent family on his floor, he’s forced to take […]

Anghus Houvouras on Woody Allen, Philip Seymour Hoffman and the concept of letting go… The concept of separating the art from the artist is one I’ve wrestled with for a long time. I can recall conversations on this very topic dating back to the days before the internet. Back when collections of film fans gathered […]

Anghus Houvouras on X-Men: Days of Future Past… I doubt I’m alone on this. I can’t be. This sickness, this palatable level of nausea I feel with every subsequent piece of marketing associated with the film. This sense of dread that creeps in with every photo that hits Twitter. I say to myself ‘they’re set […]

The LEGO Movie, 2014. Directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller.Featuring the voice talents of Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Nick Offerman, Alison Brie, Charlie Day, Liam Neeson, Morgan Freeman, Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill and Cobie Smulders. SYNOPSIS: An ordinary LEGO minifigure, mistakenly thought to be the extraordinary MasterBuilder, is recruited to […]

Tori Brazier continues our Al Pacino Retrospective with a look at The Godfather… Regularly topping polls as one of the greatest and most influential films ever made, Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 masterpiece The Godfather needs very little introduction. Suffice it to say, the film deserves every one of its accolades (including three Academy Award wins […]

Lift to the Scaffold aka Elevator to the Gallows (France: Ascenseur pour l’échafaud), 1958. Directed by Louis Malle.Starring Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly, Jean Wall and Yori Bertin. SYNOPSIS: A self-assured business man murders his employer, the husband of his adulterer, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events. The stuck-in-a-lift plot device grabs […]