Arsenal, 2017. Directed by Steven C. Miller. Starring Nicolas Cage, Adrian Grenier, John Cusack, and Johnathon Schaech. SYNOPSIS: A Southern mobster attempts to rescue his kidnapped brother. Is there a better way to ring in a new year of movies with some more material to add to the Nicolas Cage ‘Losing His S*** Montage’? The […]
Movie Review – Chi-Raq (2015)
Chi-Raq, 2015. Directed by Spike Lee. Starring Nick Cannon, Teyonah Parris, Wesley Snipes, Angela Bassett, Jennifer Hudson, John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson. SYNOPSIS: A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago. Evidently, Chi-Raq – a loose adaptation of the ancient Greek play […]
Second Opinion – Love & Mercy (2015)
Love & Mercy, 2015. Directed by Bill Pohlad. Starring Paul Dano, John Cusack, Elizabeth Banks and Paul Giamatti. SYNOPSIS: In the 1960s, Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson struggles with emerging psychosis as he attempts to craft his avant-garde pop masterpiece. In the 1980s, he is a broken, confused man under the 24-hour watch of shady […]
Love and Mercy press conference
david j. moore reports from the Love and Mercy press conference… Love and Mercy, the new film from Lionsgate, tells the story of two separate eras of the life of Brian Wilson, of the Beach Boys. One period is set during Brian’s creative strides in the 1960’s as he creates the albums Pet Sounds and […]
Movie Review – Dragon Blade (2015)
Dragon Blade, 2015. Directed by Daniel Lee. Starring Jackie Chan, John Cusack and Adrien Brody. SYNOPSIS: Set in China during the Han dynasty (206-220 AD), Dragon Blade follows Huo An (Chan), an official framed and enslaved for a crime he didn’t commit. Soon thereafter, however, he meets a Roman soldier in Cusack’s Lucius and the […]
Spike Lee’s Chi-raq to be first original Amazon film
With rumours doing the rounds over the past few weeks, it has now officially been announced that Spike Lee’s new film Chi-raq will be the first original movie to debut on Amazon. The film, which looks at inncer-city gun-violence in Chicago, was shot entirely in Chicago and has recently finished shooting, will be the very […]
Movie Review – Love & Mercy (2015)
Love & Mercy, 2015. Directed by Bill Pohlad. Starring John Cusack, Paul Dano, Elizabeth Banks and Paul Giamatti. SYNOPSIS: In the 1960s, Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson struggles with emerging psychosis as he attempts to craft his avant-garde pop masterpiece. In the 1980s, he is a broken, confused man under the 24-hour watch of shady […]
Greed has a price in first trailer for thriller Blood Money
Ahead of its theatrical and VOD release next month, a poster and trailer have arrived online for director Lucky McKee’s upcoming thriller Blood Money which stars John Cusack, Ellar Coltrane, Willa Fitzgerald, and Jacob Artist; take a look below… Three friends on a wilderness excursion must outrun a white collar criminal hell-bent on retrieving his […]
