Tom Jolliffe looks back at a couple of video era films about nefarious hitchhikers, The Nature of The Beast and Midnight Ride… ‘My mother told me never to do this.’ Words of wisdom foolishly ignored by Jim Halsey (C. Thomas Howell) in the 1986 Rutger Hauer classic, The Hitcher. Halsey picked up a hitchhiker and […]
Movie Review – Doctor Who Am I (2022)
Doctor Who Am I, 2022. Directed by Matthew Jacobs, Vanessa Yuille. Featuring Matthew Jacobs, Paul McGann, Daphne Ashbrook, Philip David Segal, Eric Roberts, Vanessa Yuille, Nicholas Briggs, and Paul Salamoff. SYNOPSIS: An infamous Doctor Who screenwriter is dragged back into the American Whoniverse, in this funny and moving documentary about finding family in the unlikeliest […]
Michael Flatley vanity project Blackbird gets a trailer and September release
Having sat on the shelf for four years since its world premiere back in 2018, Blackbird, the self-financed espionage thriller from Lord of the Dance’s Michael Flatley, is finally set for release this September. The film sees Flatley swapping his dancing shoes for handguns and Bond impersonations as he writes, directors and stars as Victor […]
Weaponised dinosaurs are unleashed in trailer for Jurassic Domination
If you thought The Asylum had passed up the opportunity to churn out a tie-in mockbuster following Jurassic World Dominion’s release earlier this month then think again, as we now have the official poster and trailer for Jurassic Domination! Starring Eric Roberts, Jack Pearson and Jamie Bernadette, the film sees a small mountain town terrorised […]
The Asylum unleashes latest creature feature Megaboa
Coinciding with its release this week, a poster and trailer have landed online for The Asylum’s latest creature feature Megaboa which sees a group of college students terrorised by a giant boa constrictor in a Columbian rainforest; check them out here… On a trip to Colombia, a group of college students head into the rainforest […]
Movie Review – Hard Luck Love Song (2021)
Hard Luck Love Song, 2021. Directed by Justin Corsbie. Starring Michael Dorman, Sophia Bush, RZA, Dermot Mulroney, Eric Roberts, and Brian Sacca. SYNOPSIS: A gritty love story about a charismatic but down-on-his-luck troubadour living out of cheap motels and making bad decisions. Hard Luck Love Song opens up on Michael Dorman’s, a bloodied and beaten […]
Female-fronted action thriller Unchained gets a trailer, poster and images
A trailer, poster and images have been released for the upcoming action thriller Unchained which stars Mair Mulroney as Aella, a young woman who is kidnapped and forced to fight for her life every night in an underground fight ring; take a look here… An idealistic woman is kidnapped and forced to compete in an […]
Damien Chazelle’s Babylon adds Max Minghella, Samara Weaving, Flea and more
Hot off the heels of Katherine Waterson’s casting, Damien Chazelle’s Babylon has added several more actors to its cast. Joining the upcoming film are Max Minghella (The Handmaid’s Tale), Samara Weaving (Ready or Not), the Red Hot Chilli Peppers’ bassist Flea, Lukas Haas (The Violent Heart), Rory Scovel (Physical), Eric Roberts (The Dark Knight), P.J. Byrne (Big […]
Jason Schwartzman, Eric Roberts and Eric Andre join The Righteous Gemstones Season 2
The second season of HBO’s The Righteous Gemstones has added Jason Schwartzman (Fargo), Eric Roberts (The Dark Knight) and Eric Andre (Bad Trip) to its cast. The Righteous Gemstones is the third HBO series from McBride, Hill and Green after Eastbound & Down and Vice Principals, and revolves around the Gemstones, a world-famous televangelist family with a long tradition of deviance, […]
Trailer for prison action thriller Night Walk starring Mickey Rourke, Eric Roberts and Sean Stone
Lionsgate has released a trailer, poster and images for writer-director Aziz Tazi’s upcoming action thriller Night Walk which stars Sean Stone as a man on a quest for justice after he was framed for the murder of his girlfriend and also stars Mickey Rourke and Eric Roberts; take a look here… Mickey Rourke stars in […]
