With Megalodon: The Frenzy available on digital platforms now and set to swim into select U.S. cinemas this Friday, a poster and trailer have been released for The Asylum’s latest sharksploitation mockbuster. Directed by Brendan Petrizzo (Monster Hunters), the action thriller stars Eric Roberts, Caroline Williams, Diana Prince, Jessica Chancellor, and Alex Trumble. Watch the […]
Demonic horror Night of the Caregiver unleashes its trailer
With less than a week to go until its release, a poster and trailer have arrived online for director Joe Cornet’s upcoming horror Night of the Caregiver. The film stars Natalie Denise Sperl as Julia, a woman hired to take care of Lillian (Eileen Dietz), a terminally ill elderly woman, but she soon finds that […]
Movie Review – Babylon (2022)
Babylon, 2022. Written and Directed by Damien Chazelle. Starring Diego Calva, Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt, Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li, Jean Smart, Tobey Maguire, Olivia Wilde, Samara Weaving, Eric Roberts, Katherine Waterston, Flea, Max Minghella, Lukas Haas, Spike Jonze, Lewis Tan, Jeff Garlin, P.J. Byrne, Sarah Ramos, Olivia Hamilton, Troy Metcalf, John Kerry, Anna Chazelle, […]
Movie Review – Sweetwater (2023)
Sweetwater, 2023. Written and Directed by Martin Guigui. Starring Everett Osborne, Cary Elwes, Jeremy Piven, Eric Roberts, Jim Caviezel, Richard Dreyfuss, Kevin Pollak, Emmaline, Mike Starr, Jim Meskimen, Jason Sklar, Ashani Roberts, Robert Ri’chard, Paul Hipp, Eric Etebari, Gary Clark Jr., Ernest Harden Jr., Wayne Federman, Billy Malone, Dahlia Waingort, Tim Kavanagh, Ca’Ron Jaden Coleman, […]
Movie Review – Babylon (2022)
Babylon, 2022. Written and Directed by Damien Chazelle. Starring Diego Calva, Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt, Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li, Jean Smart, Tobey Maguire, Olivia Wilde, Samara Weaving, Eric Roberts, Katherine Waterston, Flea, Max Minghella, Lukas Haas, and Spike Jonze. SYNOPSIS: A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall […]
Babylon trailers go ‘Naughty’ and ‘Nice’
Ahead of its US theatrical release this coming Friday, Paramount Pictures has revealed new ‘naughty’ and ‘nice’ trailers for Damien Chazelle’s 1920s-set star-studded epic Babylon; watch them below… From Damien Chazelle, BABYLON is an original epic set in 1920s Los Angeles led by Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie and Diego Calva, with an ensemble cast including […]
Runaway Train: From Russian Arthouse to The Cannon Group
Tom Jolliffe takes a look back at one of Cannon’s finest, Runaway Train… If you’re not familiar with the output of a certain iconic independent studio that were prolific in the 80’s, then chances are, of a certain age you probably saw or heard about a number of their films. It might be Masters of […]
A Look Back at The Expendables Franchise (And a Look Forward…)
Ten years on from the release of the first movie, Tom Jolliffe looks back at the Expendables franchise and then looks at where it can go now (and who needs to join the crew)… When The Expendables was first announced in late 2009, my excitement levels went through the roof. Initially it was Sylvester Stallone, […]
DVD Review – A Hitman in London (2015)
A Hitman in London, 2015. Directed by Ara Paiaya. Starring Gary Daniels, Mickey Rourke, Eric Roberts, Michael Madsen and Darryl Hannah. SYNOPSIS: This dark tale of redemption set amongst the denizens of London’s underworld, pits one man’s angst against those who would destroy him. Gary Daniel’s is that man. Can he get to the truth […]
Babylon: A Dazzling Throwback to Classic Cinema?
Tom Jolliffe looks ahead to Babylon, the star-studded upcoming film from Damien Chazelle, and wonders if it might be a movie like they used to make… When Martin Scorsese bemoaned an evolution in cinema that was leading to a dearth in the cinematic style of old, he caused something of an uproar. Increasingly, others have […]