Rush, 2013. Directed by Ron Howard.Starring Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Brühl , Alexandra Maria Lara, Olivia Wilde, and Natalie Dormer. SYNOPSIS: Rush depicts the true story of the rivalry between Formula 1 drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda, largely focusing on the 1976 season where both men were willing to risk everything to win. With Rush, […]
Linda Hamilton and Michael Biehn rumoured for Terminator reboot
Now considering the source, I’d get your pinch of salt ready here, but according to British newspaper The Mirror, director Alan Taylor (Game of Thrones, Thor: The Dark World) could be set to reunite The Terminator stars Linda Hamilton (Sarah Connor) and Michael Biehn (Kyle Reese) with Arnold Schwarzenneger for 2015’s reboot of James Cameron’s […]
Paul Giamatti teases The Sinister Six for The Amazing Spider-Man 3
A few days ago we heard from The Amazing Spider-Man 2 star Paul Giamatti about hamming it up as the Russian gangster Aleksei Sytsevich – a.k.a. The Rhino – in Sony’s forthcoming superhero sequel, and now the actor has been speaking more about his role as one of several villains going up against Andrew Garfield’s […]
TIFF Movie Review – Enemy (2013)
Enemy, 2013. Directed by Denis Villeneuve. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Mélanie Laurent, Isabella Rossellini, Sarah Gadon, Stephen R. Hart, Jane Moffat, Joshua Peace and Tim Post. SYNOPSIS:A university lecturer seeks out an actor who looks exactly like him. Timid and distracted academic Adam is advised to watch a movie by a colleague and in doing so discovers his doppelganger named Anthony; curiosity goes […]
TIFF Movie Review – Half of a Yellow Sun (2013)
Half of a Yellow Sun, 2013. Directed by Biyi Bandele. Starring Thandie Newton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Joseph Mawle, Anika Noni Rose, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, John Boyega, Rob David, Babou Ceesay, O.C. Ukeje, and Paul Hampshire. SYNOPSIS: The privileged life of twin sisters gets thrown into turmoil when civil war threatens the newly independent Nigeria. At a family dinner the established order is disrupted when twin daughters […]
Hugh Jackman talks X-Men: Days of Future Past and Bryan Singer
The dust may have just settled on his latest solo outing The Wolverine, but Hugh Jackman will be donning the adamantium claws once more in just under nine months time as he reunites with the majority of the cast from the previous X-Men films for Bryan Singer’s eagerly-awaited sequel X-Men: Days of Future Past. Access […]
DVD Review – Eden (2012)
Eden, 2012. Directed by Megan Griffiths.Starring Jamie Chung, Beau Bridges, Matt O’Leary, Eddie Martinez, Tantoo Cardinal and Tracey Fairaway. SYNOPSIS: A young Korean-American girl, abducted and forced into prostitution by domestic human traffickers, joins forces with her captors in a desperate plea to survive. In recent years the subject of human sex trafficking has become […]
Josh Brolin confirms he was in the running for Batman
After the announcement at San Diego a couple months back, there was a lot (and we mean a lot) of speculation from “reputable sources” about who might take on the role of The Dark Knight for Zack Snyder’s Batman vs. Superman. As we all now know it will be Ben Affleck putting on the cowl, but […]
DVD Review – Suspension of Disbelief (2012)
Suspension of Disbelief, 2012. Directed by Mike Figgis.Starring Sebastian Kock, Lotte Verbeek, Emilia Fox, Rebecca Night, Eoin Macken, Lachlan Nieboer, Frances de la Tour, Julian Sands, and Kenneth Cranham. SYNOPSIS: Suspension of Disbelief is the story of Martin, a talented screenwriter and novelist currently going through a difficult patch in his career. But after the […]
DVD Review – Breakout (2011)
Breakout aka Ticket Out, 2011. Directed by Doug Lodato.Starring Ray Liotta, Alexandra Breckenridge, Colin Ford, Ciara Bond, Billy Burke, Scott Michael Campbell, Joel David Moore, and Christopher B. Duncan. SYNOPSIS: A mother takes her children and flees an abusive ex-husband. Also known as Ticket Out, Breakout is one of an array of straight to video […]
