Sony has picked up the rights to The Harlem Hellfighters, an upcoming graphic novel from Max Brooks (World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, The Zombie Survival Guide). Set for publication in April, The Harlem Hellfighters tells the story of the U.S. Army’s African American 369th infantry division, who fought with distinction […]
Movie Review – 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)
300: Rise of an Empire, 2014. Directed by Noam Murro.Starring Sullivan Stapleton, Eva Green, Lena Headey, David Wenham, Rodrigo Santoro, Callan Mulvey, Jack O’Connell, and Hans Matheson. SYNOPSIS: Athenian general Themistokles leads a united Greek army against the might of the Persian Empire, and finds a formidable foe in the face of Artemisia, a powerful […]
Movie Review – Yurusarezaru Mono, a.k.a. Unforgiven (2013)
Yurusarezaru Mono a.k.a. Unforgiven, 2013 Directed by Sang il-Lee.Starring Ken Watanabe, Shiori Kutsuna and Jun Kunimura. SYNOPSIS: An aging swordsman is lured back to perform one final job. Walking into the showing of Yurusarezaru Mono, the remake of the 90s western Unforgiven, with it’s poster echoing the original directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, the […]
Fleming Episode 4 Review
Gavin Logan reviews the fourth episode of Fleming…. The War is coming to a close and so is Ian Fleming’s career as a Naval Intelligence Officer, but before he bows out he finally gets the chance to get his hands dirty. This time in near the Russian border, where he forces his superior to send […]
Vikings Season 2 – Episode 2 Recap
A Scandinavian Fast Forward… Megan Applegate recaps the second episode of Vikings Season 2…. Holy time warps! The writers wasted no time in this week’s episode and splashed a “Four Years Later” before the opening credits were cold in their graves. This week’s theme seems to be about temptation — the lusty kind, the political […]
Interview: Paul Giamatti talks about Parkland
Paul Giamatti talks about Parkland… Director Peter Landesman credits Paul Giamatti’s involvement in Parkland as one of the key reasons that Abraham Zapruder’s family – consistently silent until now – agreed to collaborate with his film. Landesman had reached out persistently to the relatives of Zapruder, the man who had witnessed the shooting of JFK […]
Comic Book Review – Rogue Trooper #1
Anghus Houvouras reviews Rogue Trooper #1… “Nu-Earth, just another planet ravaged by a galaxy-wide war, its atmosphere poisoned by chemical weapons. Created to fight in such conditions were the G.I.s – genetically engineered infantrymen. But now only one remains, the man known as… Rogue Trooper. IDW is proud to re-introduce Rogue Trooper in this all-new […]
Michael Keaton comments on the Ben Affleck casting backlash for Batman vs. Superman
The internet was sent into uproar last year when Ben Affleck was announcing as the next Dark Knight for Zack Snyder’s upcoming Man of Steel sequel Batman vs. Superman, with the backlash harking back to the late 80s when Warner Bros. received over 50,000 letters of complaint about Tim Burton hiring Beetlejuice star Michael Keaton […]
Screen Gems bringing The Last of Us to the screen
It’s been revealed that Naughty Dog’s acclaimed video game The Last of Us is getting the movie treatment courtesy of Screen Gems and Sam Raimi’s Ghost House Pictures, with the game’s Creative Director Neil Druckmann set to pen the script for the big screen adaptation. “Screen Gems’ Brian Dukes and Eric Ling brought this game […]
Michael B. Jordan discusses the backlash against his casting as Johnny Storm in The Fantastic Four
Although Fox and director Josh Trank are yet to officially confirm the recent casting news on the upcoming reboot of The Fantastic Four, it’s been the worst kept secret in Hollywood for the past few months that the film will reunite Trank with his Chronicle star Michael B. Jordan, who is set to play Johnny […]
