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 […]
Movie Review – The Purge: Election Year (2016)
The Purge: Election Year, 2016. Written and Directed by James DeMonaco. Starring Frank Grillo, Elizabeth Mitchell, Mykelti Williamson, Joseph Julian Soria, Betty Gabriel, Terry Serpico, Edwin Hodge, and Kyle Secor. SYNOPSIS: Two years after choosing not to kill the man who killed his son, former police sergeant Barnes has become head of security for Senator […]
The Purge 3 gets six new cast additions
As they gear up for production on The Purge 3, Universal and Blumhouse productions have been filling out the supporting cast for the next instalment of the low budget horror series. Deadline is reporting that Betty Gabriel (Experimenter), Edwin Hodge (Chicago Fire), Kyle Secor (Resurrection), JJ Soria (American Crime), Mykelti Williamson (Justified) and Elizabeth Mitchell […]
The Purge TV series in development, fourth movie will likely be a prequel
Fresh from the box office success of the third instalment, The Purge: Election Day, writer-director James DeMonaco has revealed to CinemaBlend that he plans on bringing the franchise to the small screen for “an interwoven anthology” series. “My idea is that you do six or seven storylines and I would kind of intercut them, use […]
Frank Grillo to return for The Purge 3
Actor Frank Grillo (The Grey) is in final talks to reprise his role as Sergeant from The Purge: Anarchy in The Purge 3. Variety reported that Grillo almost didn’t return because of scheduling conflicts with his DirecTV show Kingdom, but everything was worked out, and The Purge 3 will start shooting in September. Very little […]
The Purge TV series finds its leads
Casting is underway on Blumhouse’s small screen spinoff of the hit movie franchise The Purge, with Deadline reporting that Gabriel Chavarria (East Los High) and Jessica Garza (Six) have been cast as the male and female leads in the USA Network and Syfy series. Chavarria will play Miguel, “a US Marine with a hard edge […]
Boogeymen, Box Office, and Best Picture: The Blumhouse Effect
Matt Rodgers on the rise of Blumhouse Productions… If you peek through the window at Blumhouse Productions, past the levitating chair in the middle of the room, and the dank haired girl performing a spasmodic rendition of the robot to creepy effect, you’ll see an empty shelf, suspended by cobwebs, on a wall with an […]
The First Purge gets an announcement promo
Following yesterday’s poster [check it out here], Universal Pictures has now released an announcement video for the fourth instalment of The Purge series, the prequel The First Purge; take a look here… https://youtu.be/rhcS0tFn3ho Behind every tradition lies a revolution. Next Independence Day, witness the rise of our country’s 12 hours of annual lawlessness. Welcome to the movement that […]
The First Purge gets a teaser poster and synopsis
The Purge franchise is coming back this summer by taking fans back to the very beginning. The First Purge, previously titled The Purge: The Island, is coming July 4th and Universal and Blumhouse have released the first teaser poster for the film that overtly touches on the current political climate in the U.S. Check it out below, along […]
