When Ava DuVernay was tasked with directing duties for Disney’s A Wrinkle in Time, it was a ground-breaking moment for cinema as this would represent the first time that a black woman would be handed a project of this scale and budget (reportedly around $130 million). It’s an incredible step up for diversity from the studio and showed immense faith …
The second trailer for Disney and Ana DuVernay's incredible looking sci-fi epic has dropped and takes us further into the incredible world and story that they have created for this film.
Better Watch Out is the upcoming horror/thriller/comedy that puts a unique spin on Christmas-set movies. Two teenage boys are under the watchful eye of their babysitter when things take a turn for the worse when her ex-boyfriend turns up to terrorise them, and a turn for the weird when one boy discovers his own taste for blood.
There’s an opulent pageantry to Pan that is hard to deny. Director Joe Wright’s (Hanna, Atonement, Anna Karenina) reworking of Peter Pan’s classic origin story may be telling a tale that nobody really asked for, but when Hugh Jackman’s ludicrously coiffed villain Captain Blackbeard stalks, stomps and sneers his way through his dialogue, chewing the Crayola-coloured scenery with lip-smacking relish, …
The first time I saw the teaser trailer for the new Joe Wright movie Pan I wasn’t convinced it would appeal to audiences today. How wrong I think I was. After this official trailer I think this is going to be a really fun and visually spectacular movie. It is certainly a different take on the original story, set before Hook became Pan’s …
When Hollywood jumps on a bandwagon, they make sure they land. Not only are we getting the musical Peter Pan Live! (starring Christoper Walken as Hook) on 14 December 2014, there’s also the modern day take on Peter Pan and the Lost Boys TV series tentatively titled League of Pan in development; but wait, there’s more! There’s the feature movie simply …
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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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