The Last Keepers, 2013. Directed by Maggie Greenwald. Starring Aidan Quinn, Virginia Madsen, Olympia Dukakis and Zosia Mamet. SYNOPSIS: A young woman and her family discover she has magical powers, possibly fulfilling a prophecy that has been in their family for years. She must negotiate that with the everyday tribulations of school and growing up. […]

Cult Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike (Audition, Ichi the Killer) is heading back to his exploitation roots for a yakuza vampire movie entitled Yakuza Apocalypse: The Great War of the Underworld. “Say good-bye to wimpy and boring Japanese movies,” said Miike in a statement announcing the new film. “Nobody asked me, but I’ve decided on my […]

Back in February it was reported that the cult sci-fi series Farscape is set to return with a new TV movie from director Brian Henson (executive producer of the original show) and screenwriter Justin Monjo. Well, now we have confirmation from Farscape creator  Rockne O’Bannon, who had this to say at WonderCon over the weekend: […]

The Patrol, 2013. Written and Directed by Tom Petch. Starring Owain Arthur, Nicholas Beveney, Daniel Fraser, Alex McNally, Oliver Mott, Ben Righton and Nav Sidhu. SYNOPSIS: When a Special Forces Operation prompts a Taliban counter attack in Helmand Province, the unit’s three-day patrol hits double figures. Faced with low ammunition, injury and rising tensions under […]

Leave The World Behind, 2014. Directed by Christian Larson. Starring Axel Hedfors, Sebastian Ingrosso, Steve Angello. SYNOPSIS: A documentary from Christian Larson following Swedish House Mafia on ‘One Last Tour’ before the band split up as they had previously announced. Like John Travolta, I got chills and they’re multiplying. It was not the sight of Olivia […]

Writer-producer Simon Kinberg was at WonderCon in Anaheim yesterday to talk about the upcoming mutant superhero sequel X-Men: Days of Future Past, but with Fox’s reboot The Fantastic Four due to kick off production this month, he also offered up a few words about the studio and director Josh Trank’s (Chronicle) plans for Marvel’s First […]

Commenting on the Critics with Simon Columb… This week had a free-for-all on Pierce Brosnan’s tenure as James Bond after he, himself, revealed it wasn’t “good enough”. Horatio Harrod conducted the interview for The Telegraph… “His feelings towards the role are equivocal. “I felt I was caught in a time warp between Roger and Sean,” […]

If you’re yet to see The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and really don’t want to be spoiled, then you ought to stop reading and turn back now. Seriously. Major spoilers follow. You have been warned… Well, after a couple of years of rampant speculation, and a marketing campaign that pretty much gave it away anyway, Sony […]

Back in January, a depressed Quentin Tarantino announced that he’d decided to shelve his next project The Hateful Eight after the script for the Western leaked online. Well, it seems he may not have given up on the project after all, with the director revealing last night at a live script read in Los Angeles […]

Villordsutch chats to Tom Petch, writer-director of The Patrol… Tom Petch  is both writer and director of The Patrol (Soda Pictures),  which follows a physically and mentally exhausted British Patrol in Afghanistan as both ammunition and morale run dangerously low.  Tom himself spent 8 years within the British armed forces and later the Special Forces, […]