The highly successful The Hunger Games story will be coming to an end this November. The franchise has certainly been extremely popular among movie goers and has earned its creators plenty of cash along the way. I have enjoyed the journey so far and am really looking forward to The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 and with the imminent …
NBC studios are setting up to take a gamble on the popularity of the 1999 hit Cruel Intentions and according to Variety have already picked up a script for a new TV series adaptation, that will act as a sorta- sequel to the movie. The original movie starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon, and Selma Blair garnered a …
According to the Hollywood Reporter Ant-Man director Peyton Reed (don’t you think he sounds like a superhero?) is currently in negotiations to return to helm the recently announced superhero sequel and this makes me all kinds of happy! If all works out well, Reed (who almost also directed my favourite Marvel film, Guardians of the Galaxy) would bring Ant-Man and the Wasp to …
When it comes to the messy production of Natalie Portman’s long-embattled western Jane Got a Gun, you could make a movie about the making of this movie. I’ve written all about its woes a few times previously, but here’s the Readers’ Digest version: Micheal Fassbender was originally cast opposite Portman as her titular Jane’s ex-lover who she has to turn …
Another year, another opportunity for Jennifer Lawrence and David O. Russell to make a new addition to their burgeoning Oscar statue trophy case. The actress and filmmaker have teamed up twice before on Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle, with both times resulting in awards gold. Now they’re trying to make it 3 for 3 with Joy aka that movie …
“I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in joy and kept on hootin’ and hollerin’ about getting some tickets!” Star Wars is practically a religion. Hell, for just under 400 000 people in the UK, it officially is a religion. So when ticket sales opened worldwide on Monday morning, herded on …
With 2015 coming to an end we are in store for an impressive line up of movies to look forward, with some of the bigger of these scheduled for a December release – which is perfect for studios to cash when attendance numbers naturally start to increase. Two of these movies that are expected to top the box office ranking …
In what is sure to be a movie that is forgotten as soon as the credits roll, actor turned director Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen, Little Children) has teamed up with quite the cast for a thriller/comedy I think I’ve seen about 5 times before. Starring John Travolta as one of his go-to-characters; we’ve seen him as a bad-boy mobster with a …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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