Having signed a first-look deal with Netflix, Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way production company looks to have found its first project for the streaming giant, with The Tracking Board reporting that the Oscar-winner is set to produce the action thriller The Outlaw Ocean. Based on a series of articles by reporter Ian Urbina for The New […]
The Oscars don’t matter and we all need to stop caring
Luke Owen on last night’s Oscars… If Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year, then Awards Season is the most loathsome as a film fan. It’s the time of year that a group of out-of-touch Hollywood professionals all gather round to lay their hand down on what they think was the best film released […]
Leonardo DiCaprio to produce YA adaptation The Sandcastle Empire
The Hollywood Reporter has announced that Paramount Pictures has snapped up the rights to Kayla Olson’s as-yet-unpublished YA novel The Sandcastle Empire, with Leonardo DiCaprio on board to produce through his Appian Way production company. The Sandcastle Empire “is set in 2049 when the Earth is at a breaking point due to climate change, coastal […]
Movie Review – The Revenant (2016)
The Revenant, 2016. Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Will Poulter, Domhnall Gleeson, Paul Anderson, Lukas Haas, Brendan Fletcher, Forrest Goodluck, and Grace Dove. SYNOPSIS: In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling. You […]
Second Opinion – The Revenant (2016)
The Revenant, 2015. Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Will Poulter, Domhnall Gleeson and Forest Goodluck. SYNOPSIS: A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820’s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team. To say that The […]
Movie Review – The Revenant (2015)
The Revenant, 2015. Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Will Poulter and Domhnall Gleeson. SYNOPSIS: A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820’s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team. Cinema can be a beguiling, beautiful […]
And the winners of the 73rd Golden Globes are…
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association never ceases to surprise and go against the grain. Only a select few categories in film lined up with the predictions of professional analysts, while all of television was completely out of left field. That’s not to say anything here isn’t well deserved. Except for The Martian anyway, which was […]
Leonardo DiCaprio on turning down the role of Anakin Skywalker in the Star Wars prequels
During an interview with Shortlist, Leonardo DiCaprio has been speaking about some of the roles that he passed on his career, revealing that George Lucas wanted him to play Anakin Skywalker in the Star Wars prequels, but he decided to turn the offer down. “I did have a meeting with George Lucas about [the Star […]
Movie Review – The Revenant (2015)
The Revenant, 2015. Directed by Alejandro G. Inarritu. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Will Poulter, Domhnall Gleeson, Paul Anderson, Lukas Haas, Brendan Fletcher, Forrest Goodluck, and Grace Dove. SYNOPSIS: In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling. Production […]
Leonardo DiCaprio’s Finest Roles
This year marks over 25 years since Hollywood superstar Leonardo DiCaprio made his acting debut. As a fresh faced, ambitious teen, DiCaprio appeared in several family soap operas in the early 1990s that had decent runs, including Parenthood and Growing Pains. A quarter of a century later and two Golden Globe wins for Best Actor […]
