Having portrayed Nite Owl in Zack Snyder’s Watchmen, Patrick Wilson is set for a return to the DC universe, although this time he’ll be playing a supervillain. Deadline is reporting that Wilson has signed on to James Wan’s Aquaman movie, and will be playing the character of Orm, a.k.a Ocean Master, half brother to Jason Momoa’s […]
Movie Review – The Conjuring 2 (2016)
The Conjuring 2, 2016. Directed by James Wan. Starring Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Frances O’Connor, Madison Wolfe, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Simon Delaney, Franka Potente, Simon McBurney, Lauren Esposito, Patrick McAuley and Benjamin Haigh. SYNOPSIS: Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits. […]
DVD Review – Reckless (2015)
Reckless, 2015. Directed by Mora Stephens. Starring Patrick Wilson, Ray Winstone, Lena Headey, Richard Dreyfuss, John Cho, Alexandra Breckenridge, Christopher McDonald and Dianna Agron. SYNOPSIS: A successful family man with a blossoming political career loses all sense of morality when he becomes addicted to using an escort agency. Thankfully changed from its original title of […]
Movie Review – The Conjuring 2 (2016)
The Conjuring 2, 2016. Directed by James Wan. Starring Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Madison Wolfe, Frances O’Connor and Simon McBurney. SYNOPSIS: Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits. Following up 2013’s supremely chilling The Conjuring was always going […]
Second Opinion – The Conjuring 2 (2016)
The Conjuring 2, 2016. Directed by James Wan. Starring Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Frances O’Connor, Madison Wolfe, Simon McBurney and Franke Potente. SYNOPSIS: Enfield, North London, 1977. The Hodgson family are plagued by a terrifying poltergeist, attracting the attention of American paranormal investigators, Ed & Lorraine Warren, who must take a leap of faith to […]
Movie Review – Bone Tomahawk (2015)
Bone Tomahawk, 2015. Directed By S. Craig Zahler. Starring Kurt Russell, Matthew Fox, Patrick Wilson, Richard Jenkins, Lili Simmons, David Arquette and Sid Haig. SYNOPSIS: Four men embark on a dangerous journey to rescue one of their womenfolk from a tribe of native cannibals. Taking cues from John Ford’s classic The Searchers, S. Craig Zahler’s […]
Fargo Season 2 Episode 1 Review – ‘Waiting For Dutch’
James Garcia reviews Fargo season 2 episode 1, ‘Waiting for Dutch’… Last year, Noah Hawley took it upon himself to do what, on paper, seemed outlandish – create a television series based around the 1996 Coen Brothers masterpiece, Fargo. Hawley’s ambitious ten-hour opus – which he wrote every episode of – was a great success and exceeded […]
Movie Review – The Commuter (2018)
The Commuter, 2018. Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. Starring Liam Neeson, Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Sam Neill, Florence Pugh, Elizabeth McGovern, and Jonathan Banks. SYNOPSIS: An insurance salesman loses his job but, on his usual train home, he’s approached by an attractive woman offering him a lot of money in return for doing one small job. […]
Movie Review – The Commuter (2018)
The Commuter, 2018. Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. Starring Liam Neeson, Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Sam Neill, and Jonathan Banks. SYNOPSIS: A man gets caught in a criminal conspiracy on his usual commuter route home. I’m going to assume that everyone opening this review is asking the same question. Is this just Taken on a train? A fair […]
James Wan says Aquaman movie does not have three villains
If you’re going into Aquaman expecting to see Jason Momoa’s Arthur Curry battling three villains in Patrick Wilson’s Orm (a.k.a. Ocean Master), Yahya Abdul-Mateen II’s Black Manta, and Dolph Lundgren’s King Nereus, then think again as director James Wan has told Entertainment Weekly it’s “ridiculous” to cram so many bad guys into an origin movie. […]
