Australian actor Brenton Thwaites is set to star in Ghosts of War, a new supernatural thriller from writer-director Eric Bress (The Butterfly Effect, The Final Destination), Variety has revealed.The film will follow “five battle-hardened American soldiers assigned to hold a French chateau near the end of World War II. Formerly occupied by the Nazi high […]
Movie Review – Gods of Egypt (2016)
Gods of Egypt, 2016.Directed by Alex Proyas. Starring Brenton Thwaites, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Gerard Butler, Courtney Eaton, Chadwick Boseman, Elodie Yung, Rufus Sewell, and Geoffrey Rush.SYNOPSIS:Ancient Egypt, a world where the Gods live among mortals. Osiris, King of all Egypt, prepares to crown his dutiful son Horus as his successor, but doesn’t count on his power […]
Movie Review – Gods of Egypt (2016)
Gods of Egypt, 2016Directed by Alex Proyas. Starring Brenton Thwaites, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Gerard Butler, Courtney Eaton, Chadwick Boseman, Elodie Yung, Rachel Blake, Bryan Brown, Emma Booth, Alexander England, Rufus Sewell, and Geoffrey Rush.SYNOPSIS:Mortal hero Bek teams with the god Horus in an alliance against Set, the merciless god of darkness who has usurped Egypt’s throne, […]
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales goes into production; synopsis and cast revealed
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales has officially gone into production and Disney has now revealed the official synopsis and cast for the fifth instalment of the blockbuster franchise… Thrust into an all-new adventure, a down-on-his-luck Captain Jack Sparrow finds the winds of ill-fortune blowing even more strongly when deadly ghost pirates […]
Movie Review – Son of a Gun (2014)
Son of a Gun, 2014.Directed by Julius Avery. Starring Ewan McGregor, Brenton Thwaites, Alicia Vikander, Jacek Koman, Matt Nable, Tom Budge and Nash Edgerton.SYNOPSIS:JR busts out of prison with Brendan Lynch, Australia’s most notorious criminal, and joins Lynch’s gang for a gold heist that soon pits the two men against one another.Sound the alarm; it’s […]
Second Opinion – Son of a Gun (2014)
Son of a Gun, 2014. Directed by Julius Avery. Starring Ewan McGregor, Brenton Thwaites, Alicia Vikander, Jacek Koman, Matt Nable, Tom Budge and Nash Edgerton. SYNOPSIS: JR busts out of prison with Brendan Lynch, Australia’s most notorious criminal, and joins Lynch’s gang for a gold heist that soon pits the two men against one another. […]
Movie Review – Son of a Gun (2014)
Son of a Gun, 2014. Directed by Julius Avery. Starring Ewan McGregor, Brenton Thwaites, Alicia Vikander, Jacek Koman, Matt Nable, Tom Budge and Nash Edgerton. SYNOPSIS: JR busts out of prison with Brendan Lynch, Australia’s most notorious criminal, and joins Lynch’s gang for a gold heist that soon pits the two men against one another. […]
Brenton Thwaites circles Pirates of the Caribbean 5
By this point, we’ve come to expect that every Pirates of the Caribbean movie needs a milquetoast hero at its center, to balance out the quirkiness of Johnny Depp’s Jack Sparrow. Orlando Bloom fit that mold in the first three films, and was replaced by The Hunger Games: Catching Fire‘s Sam Claflin in the fourth film, and now […]