Tallulah, 2016. Written and directed by Sian Heder. Starring Ellen Page, Allison Janney, Tammy Blanchard, Zachary Quinto, John Benjamin Hickey and Uzo Aduba. SYNOPSIS: Tallulah tells the story of young vagabond, Lu (Ellen Page), who lives in a van and is fiercely independent in her hand-to-mouth existence. When a chance encounter incites her to impulsively […]
6 Very Different Choices For Who Should Play Lisbeth Salander
Ben Robins with six very different choices for who should play Lisbeth Salander in The Girl in the Spider’s Web… Hollywood has spoken and whether we like it or not, the Millennium series is getting a facelift. The original Swedish-language The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo famously kickstarted the career of Prometheus’ Noomi Rapace, whilst David […]
X-Men: The real Apocalypse is its continuity!
Tony Black attempts to make sense of the continuity of the X-Men franchise… Have you ever attempted to make sense of the X-Men movie continuity? As in pick apart the entire timeline of events across the eight, soon to be nine films in the franchise? Of course not, you all have lives. You have friends […]
Movie Review – Freeheld (2016)
Freeheld, 2016. Directed by Peter Sollett. Starring Julianne Moore, Ellen Page, Michael Shannon, Steve Carell and Josh Charles. SYNOPSIS: After New Jersey detective, Laurel Hester gets diagnosed with terminal cancer, her domestic partner, Stacie Andree both fight to allow Stacie to receive Laurel’s pension benefits. The term ‘Made for TV movie’ is often used to […]
Movie Review – Freeheld (2016)
Freeheld, 2016. Directed by Peter Sollett. Starring Julianne Moore, Ellen Page, Michael Shannon and Steve Carrell. SYNOPSIS: Based on a true story, Freeheld tells us of Laurel Hester, a veteran police officer who has cancer and only wishes for her state pension to be passed to her civil-partner, Stacie. Freeheld, and the gay rights it supports isn’t set in […]
Ellen Page set to take on Flatliners remake
Variety are reporting that Ellen Page (Juno) could be set to join the remake of classics 1990 sci-fi thriller Flatliners. Sony have the project all set for the remake treatment, with acclaimed director Niels Arden Oplev (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo) on board to direct. The original film centered around a group of medical students […]
The Biggest Oscar Snubs
Henry Bevan on the biggest Oscar snubs… You can never escape the Oscars. Even once the winner has been crowned, publications start talking about the next crop of hopefuls. There have already been vague articles on this already and people are already talking about Black Panther’s chances at becoming the first superhero movie to get […]
Ellen Page would “love” to reprise Kitty Pryde role for Tim Miller’s X-Men spinoff movie
Despite an impending takeover by Disney, 20th Century Fox continues to press ahead with its plans for the X-Men movie universe, with the studio announcing last month that Deadpool director Tim Miller and comic book writer Brian Michael Bendis are developing a new spinoff movie, thought to focus on the character of Kitty Pryde. Kitty […]
Movie Review – The Cured (2018)
The Cured, 2018. Directed by David Freyne. Starring Ellen Page, Sam Keeley, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Stuart Graham, Hilda Fay, and Paula Malcolmson. SYNOPSIS: A disease that turns people into zombies has been cured. The once-infected zombies are discriminated against by society and their own families, which causes social issues to arise. This leads to militant government […]
Movie Review – The Cured (2017)
The Cured, 2017. Directed by David Freyne. Starring Ellen Page, Sam Keeley, Tom Vaughn-Lawlor, and Paula Malcolmson. SYNOPSIS: In a sub-genre that has swallowed up contemporary culture in a way that nobody saw coming when George A. Romero’s groundbreaking films captured the Vietnam or consumerist zeitgeist of their respective eras, David Freyne’s contribution to the […]
