Over the past few months we’ve heard lots of speculation / guesswork as to when we can expect to see the trailers for Warner Bros.’ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and 20th Century Fox’s The Fantastic Four, and now a new report claims we’ll get our first look at both movies next month. According […]
Eddie Redmayne on his Razzie-winning Jupiter Ascending role
In the same year that Eddie Redmayne received the Academy Award for his turn as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, the British actor was also stinking up the screen as the villain Balem Abrasax in the Wachowskis’ box office turkey Jupiter Ascending. Now, during an interview with GQ (via AV Club) to promote his […]
Good Concept, Bad Delivery
Tom Jolliffe takes a look at when good concepts are badly executed… Occasionally you’ll see a film or a TV show and you wonder why they bothered at all. Everything goes wrong. Sometimes it starts from the very concept. In the case of remakes for example, you know right off the bat that some films […]
10 Box Office Flops From 2015
Luke Owen looks at a few box office flops… It has been a very successful year at the box office for most of the major studios (Disney and Universal have done particularly well), but that doesn’t mean we’ve had a few duds along the way. Not just from a critical standpoint, but also from a […]
The Big Risks: Hollywood’s big gambles in 2015
Anghus Houvouras on Hollywood’s big gambles of 2015… 2015 has the potential to be a landmark year for film. By now you’re familiar with the slew of big budget blockbusters being lined up at theaters this year. There’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ant-Man, Jurassic World, as well as new installments […]
Why Original Science Fiction is Dead
Anthony Stokes on the death of original science fiction… Jupiter Ascending has arrived and is pretty much been the bust we all thought it would be. Needless to say I doubt it will even come close to breaking even, and I’m not shedding a single tear for the Wachowski siblings who should have learned better […]
Fantastic Four, Pixels, Jupiter Ascending and Fifty Shades of Grey lead Razzie nominations
Following the Golden Globes and ahead of the Oscar nominations, the annual Razzies have released their nominations this year for the ‘worst of the worst’ of cinema. This year, unsurprisingly, Fantastic Four, Pixels, Jupiter Ascending and Fifty Shades of Grey lead the charge with several nominations each in several categories. Other heavily-nominated films include Mortdecai, Paul […]
Jupiter Ascending debuts at Sundance to negative response
In a somewhat strange decision by Warner Bros., last night saw the first public screening of the upcoming blockbuster Jupiter Ascending at the Sundance Film Festival, which was met with a muted reaction, reports Variety. In a “surprise screening” at the indie film festival, the Wachowski sibling’s film was not billed as a premiere but […]
