Last month, comedian-turned-actor-turned director Jordan Peele announced that he was quitting acting, preferring instead to focus on his career behind the camera after enjoying huge critical success with his feature directorial debut Get Out. Attending the Directors Guild of America Awards this past weekend, where he was honoured with the First Time Feature Award for Get […]
2017 Has Been A Bad Year For Blockbusters, And That’s No Surprise
If Hollywood had stopped making bad films, they would have made more money… 2017 probably isn’t the year to say that the HL Mencken line about nobody losing money underestimating the public isn’t true, but it certainly looks like it no longer holds for the film industry. Amidst the wailing and gnashing of teeth from […]
Second Opinion – The Emoji Movie (2017)
The Emoji Movie, 2017. Directed by Tony Leondis. Starring T. J. Miller, James Corden, Anna Faris, Maya Rudolph, Steven Wright, Rob Riggle, Jennifer Coolidge, Christina Aguilera, Sofía Vergara, Sean Hayes and Patrick Stewart. SYNOPSIS: Gene, a multi-expressional emoji, sets out on a journey to become a normal emoji. By the time my viewing experience of […]
Movie Review – The Emoji Movie (2017)
The Emoji Movie, 2017. Directed by Tony Leondis. Featuring the voice talents of T.J. Miller, James Corden, Anna Faris, Maya Rudolph, Steven Wright, Sofia Vergara, Patrick Stewart, Jennifer Coolidge, Christina Aguilera, Sean Hayes, Tati Gabrielle, and Sean Giambrone. SYNOPSIS: A multi-expressional Meh emoji sets out on a quest to become a normal Meh emoji. To best understand […]
The Emoji Movie featurette introduces Patrick Stewart’s Poop
With less than a month to go until the release of The Emoji Movie, a new promo has arrived online for the upcoming animated comedy focusing on Patrick Stewart’s character, Poop; check it out here… SEE ALSO: Watch the latest trailer for The Emoji Movie here THE EMOJI MOVIE unlocks the never-before-seen secret world inside your […]
2017 Summer Movie Preview
Liam Hoofe looks the summer’s big movie releases… While the rest of the world continues to go a little mad, movies fan the world over are super excited about what looks to be one of the biggest summers in the history of cinema. Several big franchises are releasing sequels/prequels/spin-offs and several new franchises are bringing […]
Patrick Stewart to voice Poop in Sony’s The Emoji Movie
Sony Pictures Animation has announced new additions to the cast of The Emoji Movie, with Sir Patrick Stewart set to lend his voice to the character of Poop alongside Maya Rudolph as Smiler, Jake T. Austin as Alex and Jennifer Coolidge as Mary Meh. The Emoji Movie is being directed by Tony Leondis from a […]
T.J. Miller to voice a character in The Emoji Movie
A recent video posted online by Sony Pictures Animation, the production company behind such kid-friendly animated mega-hits as The Smurfs and Hotel Transylvania, has revealed that T.J. Miller is the first to join the cast of Emojimovie: Express Yourself. In the video, Miller auditions for a role in the movie by testing out his best emoji […]
Sony sets release dates for The Emoji Movie and Peter Rabbit, delays animated Spider-Man film
Sony Pictures Animation has announced release dates for three of its upcoming projects, with The Emoji Movie set to land on August 11th 2017, followed by Peter Rabbit on March 23rd 2018 and the animated Spider-Man feature on December 21st 2018. The Spider-Man movie – which will be based on a treatment by The LEGO Movie’s […]
