With Warner Bros. and DC Films looking at a January production start for Birds of Prey, it seems we may soon learn who’ll be joining Margot Robbie in the cast of the Harley Quinn-led girl gang movie. According to various reports in the trades, Warner Bros. and director Cathy Yan are currently testing a number […]
Chicago Critics Film Festival 2018 Capsule Review – Fast Color
It is movingly fitting that one of the only superhuman-based films centered on women (in this case, generations of women with Gugu Mbatha-Raw and her growing star power, underrated television character actor Lorraine Toussaint, and youngster Saniyya Sidney bonding and making amends while also going even further back reading ancestral passages from a handed diary) focuses […]
Movie Review – A Wrinkle in Time (2018)
A Wrinkle in Time, 2018. Directed by Ava DuVernay. Starring Storm Reid, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Chris Pine, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Levi Miller, Deric McCabe, Andre Holland, Rowan Blanchard, Michael Peňa, Zach Galifianakis, and David Oyelowo. SYNOPSIS: After the disappearance of her scientist father, three peculiar beings send Meg, her brother, and her friend […]
SXSW Review – Fast Color (2018)
Fast Color, 2018. Directed by Julia Hart. Starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, David Strathairn, Lorraine Toussaint, Christopher Denham, and Saniyya Sidney. SYNOPSIS: A woman is forced to go on the run when her superhuman abilities are discovered. Years after having abandoned her family, the only place she has left to hide is home. You’ll be hearing from […]
Movie Review – A Wrinkle in Time (2018)
A Wrinkle in Time, 2018. Directed by Ava DuVernay. Starring Storm Reid, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Chris Pine, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Levi Miller, Deric McCabe, Andre Holland, Rowan Blanchard, Michael Peňa, Zach Galifianakis, and David Oyelowo. SYNOPSIS: After the disappearance of her scientist father, three peculiar beings send Meg, her brother, and her friend […]
Second Opinion – The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)
The Cloverfield Paradox, 2018. Directed by Julius Onah. Starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Daniel Brühl, Elizabeth Debicki, Chris O’Dowd, David Oyelowo and Zhang Ziyi. SYNOPSIS: Orbiting above a planet on the brink of war, scientists test a device to solve an energy crisis and end up face-to-face with a dark alternate reality. It goes without saying that The Cloverfield Paradox is […]
Bruce Willis, Alec Baldwin and Gugu Mbatha-Raw join Motherless Brooklyn
A couple of days ago it was reported that Willem Dafoe has signed on to star alongside Edward Norton in an adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s novel Motherless Brooklyn, and now The Wrap brings word of three more additions to the cast. According to the site, Bruce Willis (Death Wish), Alec Baldwin (Mission: Impossible – Fallout) […]
Movie Review – The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)
The Cloverfield Paradox, 2018. Directed by Julius Onah. Starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Daniel Bruhl, Elizabeth Debicki, David Oyelowo, Chris O’Dowd, Roger Davies, John Ortiz, Ziyi Zhang, Aksel Hennie, and Simon Pegg. SYNOPSIS: After a scientific experiment aboard the space station involving a particle accelerator has unexpected results, the astronauts find themselves isolated. Following their horrible discovery, […]
Netflix releases poster and trailer for Irreplaceable You
With just two weeks to go until it arrives on Netflix, the streaming service has released a poster and trailer for Stephanie Laing’s feature directorial debut Irreplaceable You. The romantic comedy drama features a cast that includes Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Michiel Huisman, Steve Coogan, Tim Simons, Jacki Weaver, Kate McKinnon, Christopher Walken, and Brian Tyree Henry; take a […]
A Wrinkle in Time gets a new international trailer
With its March release fast approaching, a new international trailer has arrived online for Disney’s upcoming big screen adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s fantasy novel A Wrinkle in Time; watch it here… “Meg Murry and her little brother, Charles Wallace, have been without their scientist father, Mr. Murry, for five years, ever since he discovered a new […]