Shaun Munro reviews the first season of Netflix’s The Addams Family spinoff series Wednesday… As streaming services continue their industrious quest to plumb every last viable “IP” ripe for its own series treatment, in the very least a contemporary live-action adaptation of The Addams Family feels like a fairly natural eventuality. After all, little truly […]
4K Ultra HD Review – The Limey (1999)
The Limey, 1999. Directed by Steven Soderbergh. Starring Terence Stamp, Lesley Ann Warren, Luis Guzmán, Barry Newman, and Peter Fonda. SYNOPSIS: Steven Soderbergh’s minor classic The Limey arrives on 4K courtesy of Lionsgate, which included the film on Blu-ray and tossed in a code for a digital copy too. The extras are sparse and were […]
Tim Burton’s Addams Family spinoff Wednesday gets a kooky first trailer
Netflix has debuted the first trailer for Wednesday, the upcoming Tim Burton-produced Addams Family spinoff. The supernatural mystery series stars Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams and focuses on her time as a student at Nevermore Academy as she navigates her emerging abilities and new relationships; watch it below… The series is a sleuthing, supernaturally […]
Meet the new Addams Family from Netflix’s Wednesday
After dropping a teaser during Geeked Week back in June, Netflix has now shared a new family photo from director Tim Burton’s upcoming Addams Family spin-off series Wednesday, which sees Jenna Ortega’s title character joined by parents Morticia (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and Gomez (Luis Guzmán) and brother Pugsley (Isaac Ordonez). The series is a sleuthing, supernaturally […]
Netflix announces cast of new Adam Sandler film You Are SO Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah!
Production is now underway on Adam Sandler’s next Netflix film, You Are SO Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah!. Starring alongside Sandler will be his Uncut Gems co-star Idina Menzel, Sarah Sherman (Saturday Night Live) and Luis Guzmán (Wednesday) with Sammi Cohen (Crush) directing. You Are SO Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah! is how “a girl’s […]
Movie Review – Lady of the Manor (2021)
Lady of the Manor, 2021. Written and Directed by Justin Long and Christian Long. Starring Melanie Lynskey, Judy Greer, Justin Long, Luis Guzmán, Ryan Phillippe, Angela Alise, Nick Morgulis, Patrick Duffy, Cassidy Reyes, Wallace Jean, Lindsay Lamb, Andi Matheny, and Alex Klein. SYNOPSIS: An aimless ne’er-do-well becomes a tour guide in a historic estate and […]
Luis Guzman to play Gomez in Tim Burton’s Addams Family series Wednesday
Netflix found its Gomez for the upcoming Addams Family spinoff Wednesday, with Variety reporting that veteran actor Luis Guzman is set to follow in the footsteps of the likes of John Astin, Raul Julia, Tim Curry and Oscar Isaac by taking on the patriarch of the kooky Addams clan. The Netflix series has been created […]
Movie Review – The Birthday Cake (2021)
The Birthday Cake, 2021. Directed by Jimmy Giannopoulos. Starring Shiloh Fernandez, Ewan McGregor, Val Kilmer, Lorraine Bracco, William Fichtner, Aldis Hodge, Penn Badgley, Jeremy Allen White, Ashley Benson, Luis Guzmán, John Magaro, Paul Sorvino, David Mazouz, Jake Weary, Emory Cohen, Vincent Pastore, Marla Maples, Franky G, Joseph D’Onofrio, Emily Tremaine, Nick Vallelonga, Jordan Lane, Price […]
First trailer and images for mob drama The Birthday Cake starring Val Kilmer, Ewan McGregor and Shiloh Fernandez
Ahead of its release this June, a trailer and images have been released for the upcoming crime drama The Birthday Cake which follows Gio (Shiloh Fernandez) as he attends a memorial held for the 10th anniversary of his father’s death, hosted by his mafia boss uncle (Val Kilmer), and finds his life changed forever when […]
A Turn of the Century Cockney Gangster Double Bill
Tom Jolliffe double bills two cockney gangster films from the turn of the century in The Limey and Sexy Beast… Toward the end of the last century, leading into the new one, the British gangster film really seemed to take off again. We saw the emergence of a number of significant exponents of the genre, […]
