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 […]
Hannibal – Episode 11 Review
John Lucking reviews the eleventh episode of Hannibal…. “Directed by Guillermo Navarro”; and with that you know you’re going to be watching Hannibal at its best, both visually and thematically. Navarro’s imagination has lent itself beautifully to Will’s mental state and the various grisly goings on, and ‘Rôti’ was no exception to this rule. The […]
Turning The Page: Inferno by Dan Brown
A mentally unstable individual who calls himself “the shade” runs from an unseen pursuer and concludes the chase by making a suicide jump from a bridge. A patient wakes up in a hospital with what is thought to be gunshot wound to the head and suffering from amnesia. The head of a covert organization attempts […]
OUTRAGE: “Superman isn’t being played by an American”
With Man of Steel set to arrive in cinemas next week, Anghus Houvouras looks at the ‘controversy’ surrounding the casting of a British actor as the iconic superhero… Americans are a xenophobic lot. I know this because I’m one of them. And while I don’t share my fellow countrymen’s blind fear of the unknown, I […]
Comic Book Review – Thanos Rising #3
Robb Ghag reviews Thanos Rising #3… “The Mad Titan flees his home in search of true love.But how many lives will he have to take to find it?The book so blood-soaked you’ll be glad it’s a mini-series.” This book is progressively getting better. In the Marvel Universe where everyone is an Avenger or battling their […]
