With the death of Tony Scott last August, question marks have been hanging over the status of the long-rumoured sequel to his 1986 blockbuster Top Gun, which would have reteamed the director with producer Jerry Bruckheimer and star Tom Cruise. However, speaking at the 2013 Produced By conference on Sunday, Bruckheimer revealed that Top Gun […]
DVD Review – Blood (2012)
Blood, 2012. Directed by Nick MurphyStarring Paul Bettany, Stephen Graham, Mark Strong and Brian Cox. SYNOPSIS: Thriller charting the moral collapse of a police family. Two cop brothers, smothered by the shadow of their former police chief father, must investigate a crime they themselves have committed. A young girl lies murdered inside two pools: one […]
Blu-ray Review – Django, Prepare a Coffin (1968)
Django, Prepare a Coffin (Italian: Preparati la bara!), 1968. Directed by Ferinando Baldi. Starring Terence Hill, Horst Frank, George Eastman, Jose Torres and Pinuccio Ardia. SYNOPSIS: A mysterious gunfighter named Django is employed by a local crooked political boss as a hangman to execute innocent locals framed by the boss, who wants their land. In […]
DVD Review – Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope (2011)
Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope, 2011. Directed by Morgan Spurlock.Featuring Stan Lee, Jos Whedon, Kevin Smith, Eli Roth, Seth Green and a few hundred thousand extras. SYNOPSIS: Have you ever imagined a place where Vulcans and Vampires get along? Where Wizards and Wookies can be themselves? …Welcome to Comic-Con San Diego. Comic-Con Episode IV: […]
Second Opinion – Populaire (2012)
Populaire, 2012. Directed by Regis Rosinard.Starring Romain Duris, Deborah Francois, Berenice Bejo and Shaun Benson. SYNOPSIS: 1958. Rose is a terrible secretary but a demon typist. Her handsome boss resolves to turn her into the fastest girl in the world. Populaire is a delightfully fresh, fun, and light French comedy, the kind of which Hollywood […]
Writing the Wrongs of Rhys Ifans
Commenting on the Critics with Simon Columb… Peter Preston writes for The Guardian about the “train-wreck” of an interview Janice Turner conducted for The Times with Rhys Ifans: “News is a train wreck rather than the 3.35 from Bournemouth arriving on time; so Janice Turner’s train wreck of a Times interview with antibiotically challenged actor […]
Rory Kinnear to replace Matt Smith in Doctor Who?
According to the British newspaper The Telegraph, the BBC has made an offer to Rory Kinnear to replace Matt Smith as the next incarnation of the Time Lord in the long-running sci-fi series Doctor Who. According to The Telegraph’s source, Kinner – who portrayed MI6 officer Bill Tanner in the Bond films Quantum of Solace […]
Leonardo DiCaprio to play Rasputin for Warner Bros.
Leonardo DiCaprio is set to portray Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin, the infamous Russian mystic, healer and prolific womaniser who rose to become one of the most influential advisors to the Russian Imperial family the Romanovs in the early 20th century before being poisoned, shot, beaten, shot, strangled, clubbed, shot, castrated and then shot again by his […]
The Week in Spandex – Man of Steel, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, The Avengers 2, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Justice League and more
Our weekly round up of all the latest stories from the world of screen superheroes, including Man of Steel, Justice League, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy, Thor: The Dark World, The Avengers 2, Kick-Ass 2, X-Men: Days of Future Past, The Wolverine, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Phineas […]
Second Opinion – After Earth (2013)
After Earth, 2013. Directed by M. Night ShyamalanStarring Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Isabelle Fuhrmann, Sophie Okonedo, Zoe Kravitz, David Denman, and Kristofer Hivju. SYNOPSIS: A crash landing leaves Kitai Raige and his father Cypher stranded on Earth, a millennium after events forced humanity’s escape. With Cypher injured, Kitai must embark on a perilous journey to […]
