On The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, a different guest drops in every week to chat about their favourite movie. This week, the star and co-writer of Gloves Off, Brad Moore, comes in to discuss One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest…This week, actor Brad Moore comes in for a chat about his new movie as […]
Toni Erdmann remake loses Jack Nicholson, but finds a director
Back in February of last year it was reported that Jack Nicholson was circling Paramount Pictures’ planned remake of the hit German comedy Toni Erdmann, which would have marked the screen icon’s first role since 2010’s How Do You Know.Well, according to Deadline, Nicholson has now decided to pass on the project and is no […]
Willem Dafoe reveals that he had early talks to play The Joker in Batman ’89
Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman film is regarded as one of the best comic book films ever made. While Christopher Nolan reached staggering heights with his Dark Knight Trilogy, plenty feel that the Gothic world that Burton created is far superior. Burton’s film still looks good today, and truly does feel like a comic-book brought to […]
Blu-ray Review – Prizzi’s Honor (1985)
Prizzi’s Honor, 1985.Directed by John Huston. Starring Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, Anjelica Huston, Robert Loggia, John Randolph, William Hickey, and Lee Richardson.SYNOPSIS:John Huston’s penultimate movie, Prizzi’s Honor, arrives on Blu-ray, but the bonus features leave a bit to be desired. You get trailers for five other movies and a commentary track featuring film historians Howard […]
John Lithgow regrets turning down The Joker in Tim Burton’s Batman
Along with Robin Williams, Tim Curry, David Bowie and Brad Dourif, notable character actor John Lithgow was in the running to play The Joker in Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman, which of course went to Jack Nicholson.Speaking to Vulture, Lithgow has admitted that he regrets passing on the role. “My worst audition was for Tim Burton for Batman, […]
Jack Nicholson reportedly returning to acting for Toni Erdmann remake
Jack Nicholson didn’t really walk away from acting on a grand note with 2010’s How Do You Know, but after seven years he’s reportedly making a comeback by starring in the American remake of Germany’s 2016 Oscar-nominated comedy Toni Erdmann. Kristen Wiig is also set to star opposite Jack Nicholson.Variety’s sources broke the news, mentioning Paramount Pictures […]
Movie Review – The Shining Extended Cut (1980)
The Shining, 1980.Directed by Stanley Kubrick Starring Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Scatman Crothers, Danny Lloyd.SYNOPSIS:A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is a classic […]
October Horrors Day 22 – The Shining (1980)
The Shining, 1980. Directed by Stanley Kubrick Starring Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Scatman Crothers and Danny Lloyd. SYNOPSIS: Jack Torrance is a struggling writer who takes a job as the winter caretaker of the Overlook Hotel, located deep in the mountains and often snowed in during the winter months, bringing along his wife Wendy and […]
Blu-ray Review – Six Gothic Tales
Robert W Monk reviews Six Gothic Tales, a Blu-ray collection of the Roger Corman directed and produced adaptations of the Edgar Allen Poe stories The Fall of the House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum, Tales of Terror, The Raven, The Haunted Palace, The Tomb of Ligeia, starring Vincent Price, Barbara Steele, Peter Lorre, […]
