Off the back of its 3D re-release, George Lucas’ fan-derided opening chapter of his epic space opera, Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menance, has now crossed $1 billion dollars at the global box office, becoming only the eleventh film in history to do so. According to THR, The Phantom Menace reached the landmark […]
Before They Were Famous… They Were in The X-Files
Gary Collinson with a selection of star names who made an early ‘before they were famous’ appearance in The X-Files… Over the past few months I’ve been revisiting Chris Carter’s classic science fiction TV series The X-Files and besides jogging my memory as to just how good of a pairing David Duchovny’s Fox Mulder and […]
Edgar Wright to direct Johnny Depp in The Night Stalker
Edgar Wright (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead) is set to direct a movie remake of the cult 1970’s telemovie and TV series The Night Stalker. Disney Pictures is developing the film as a potential star vehicle for Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean, Alice in Wonderland), who will be […]
Idris Elba confirmed for Nelson Mandela biopic
Well, we first broke the news way back in December and now Idris Elba (The Wire, Thor, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance) has finally confirmed that he’s set to play former South African leader Nelson Mandela in a biopic based upon Mandela’s 1995 autobiographical book Long Walk to Freedom, with cameras set to roll on […]
Silence is Golden: The Making of The Artist
Trevor Hogg explores the making of Michel Hazanavicius’ Best Picture contender, The Artist… “The first person I had to convince was me, and think, ‘Okay, even if everybody thinks it is undoable, I am going to try because I really want to do it’,” stated French filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius who began developing The Artist (2011) […]
Jim Caviezel joins Schwarzenegger and Stallone in The Tomb
300 producer Mark Canton’s testosterone-fest The Tomb has found its bad guy, JoBlo are reporting, and it’s none other than Christ himself, Jim Caviezel. He’ll be providing the foil to the fearsome Arnold Schwarzenegger / Sylvester Stallone combo, who are playing against type as Ray Breslin and Church, hard-men inmates attempting to escape from a […]
Holy Franchise, Batman! – Now available for pre-order…
Just a quick update to let you know that my book, Holy Franchise, Batman! Bringing the Caped Crusader to the Screen – which charts the entire live-action and animated history of Gotham City’s Grim Avenger, from the 1943 Batman movie serial through to The Dark Knight Rises and beyond – is now available to pre-order […]
DVD Review – Caprice (1967)
Caprice, 1967. Directed by Frank Tashlin. Starring Doris Day and Richard Harris. SYNOPSIS: A female spy (Doris Day) working for a cosmetics company gets caught up in a complex plot to discover the formula to a new hairspray. Teaming up with a fellow spy (Richard Harris) they discover an underworld involving more than just beauty […]
DVD Review – Miss Bala (2011)
Miss Bala, 2011. Directed by Gerardo Naranjo. Starring Stephanie Sigman, Noe Hernandez, Irene Azuela, Miguel Couturier, Gabriel Heads, Jose Yenque and James Russo. SYNOPSIS: An aspiring beauty queen is kidnapped by a Mexican drug cartel and quickly finds herself sucked into the vicious world of South American drug trafficking. Films about the South American drug […]
DVD Review – Demons Never Die (2011)
Demons Never Die, 2011. Directed by Arjun Rose. Starring Robert Sheehan, Ashley Walters and Tulisa Contostavlos. SYNOPSIS: A group of troubled teens make a suicide pact after a classmate takes her own life. But all is not what it seems. The best way to describe Demons Never Die is to call it an ‘urban horror’. […]
