There’s been a lot of chatter on the Internet recently about Friends and some people have been calling for a Friends movie, but here’s why I don’t think it would be such a good idea. I loved Friends in my teenage years. I used to watch it with my own friends and oh how we…
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ArticlesGal Gadot, Wonder Woman herself, has given her thoughts on the film’s Oscar snub and it’s not all bad. Many people felt that Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman was a dead certainty for Oscar nominations this year but we were left feeling a bit bemused by its complete omission. Not one nomination! Not one! It does feel…
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Director: Nick Park Starring: Tom Hiddleston, Maisie Williams, Eddie Redmayne, Timothy Spall, Richard Ayoade, Rob Brydon Aardman is one of the most innovative entertainment studios working in the industry today. They basically shaped my childhood with the wonderful Wallace & Gromit and Creature Comforts shorts and have since moved into making fantastic feature-length animated movies…
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Director: Richard Linklater Starring: Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston, Laurence Fishburne, J. Quinton Johnson A new Richard Linklater film is always something to take notice of. Over the years he’s proven himself to be one of the most interesting directors working in Hollywood and he’s shown that he’s able to effectively work in all sorts of different…
Guillermo Del Toro’s latest picture, The Shape Of Water, received the most nominations at this year’s Academy Awards with a grand total of 13. The 90’s Academy Awards is looking to be one of the most intriguing we’ve seen for a while with no real clear-cut winner. Last year it was basically a two-film-race between…
There are rumours circling the Internet suggesting that the third Cloverfield movie might end up being a Netflix exclusive and it could be called Cloverfield Station. The upcoming Cloverfield movie has been shrouded in secrecy. The whole J.J. Abrams-produced franchise has been a mysterious one. Matt Reeves’ first movie came out of nowhere and both shocked and…
The list of nominees for this year’s Academy Awards (a.k.a. The Oscars) is in and Guillermo Del Toro’s The Shape of Water is leading the charge with 13 nominations. We’re coming into February which means that it’s that time of the year when Hollywood gives itself a big pat on the back by dishing out…
The nominees for this year’s Razzie Awards have been announced and surprise, surprise, Transformers: The Last Knight is leading the charge with The Mummy following closely behind. The nominees for this year’s Razzie Awards are in and 2017 certainly had some strong contenders to choose from. Films like Michael Bay’s Transformers: The Last Knight and the…
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Director: Guillermo Del Toro Starring: Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Doug Jones, Michael Stuhlbarg, Octavia Spencer I am a sucker for modern fairy tales, and few people tell them so well as Mexican director Guillermo del Toro. An unashamed genre fan who gleefully cribs from folk tales and classic B-movies, he can be an…
Rian Johnson has explained why he decided to tackle the mystery of Rey’s parentage the way he did in Star Wars: The Last Jedi. WARNING: There are SPOILERS for Star Wars: The Last Jedi in this article. Star Wars: The Last Jedi has sparked a lot of debate on the Internet. Before Rian Johnson’s film came…
Rian Johnson posted a series of 7 tweets the other day in an effort to silence the critics of the Luke Skywalker scene in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and he succeeded. SPOILERS for Star Wars: The Last Jedi to follow. There’s been a heck of a lot of chatter on the Internet about Star…
The director of John Wick and John Wick: Chapter 2, Chad Stahelski, has confirmed that he’ll be helming John Wick: Chapter 3 and he also revealed that Keanu Reeves wants Tidla Swinton to join the franchise. The John Wick franchise has turned out to be one of the surprise hits of the past few years…
There’s a new trailer for the upcoming Tomb Raider movie which stars Alicia Vikander as the kickass Lara Croft. Check it out here. I love the recent Tomb Raider video games. I know this might sound a bit far-fetched, but I prefer them to Naughty Dog’s Uncharted video games. There’s something very special about Lara…
Rian Johnson took some time to discuss why he decided against using the Knights of Ren in Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Turns out it was because he didn’t want to kill them off. There have been a lot of conversations surrounding Rian Johnson’s latest Star Wars movie, The Last Jedi. Some people, myself included, think…
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Director: Jaume Collet-Serra Starring: Liam Neeson, Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Sam Neill, Jonathan Banks, Elizabeth McGovern Liam Neeson is once again punching and kicking his way onto our cinema screens in The Commuter which marks the Irish actor’s fourth collaboration with Spanish director, Jaume Collet-Serra. They previously worked together on Unknown, Non-Stop and Run All Night. This…
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Director: Steven Spielberg Starring: Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk, Tracy Letts, Bradley Whitford, Bruce Greenwood, Carrie Coon, and Matthew Rhys Freedom of the press is something that’s being discussed at quite some length at the moment. With Trump starting to sound like a broken record spouting the words “fake news” every time the press writes something even slightly negative…
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Director: Scott Cooper Starring: Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike, Wes Studi, Ben Foster, Stephen Lang, Jesse Plemons, Rory Cochrane, Adam Beach, and Q’orianka Kilcher ‘The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer,’ reads the D.H. Lawrence quote that opens Hostiles, the grimly and aptly titled new western from Scott Cooper. Set in 1892 in the later years of what is still…
Gareth Edwards’ incredible debut flick, Monsters, is being adapted into a television show by British Broadcasters, Channel Four. I absolutely love Gareth Edwards’ debut film Monsters. I think it’s a sweet love story told against the backdrop of an apocalyptic world in the midst of an alien invasion. I watched it for the first time at the…
James Gunn revealed on Twitter that his third Guardians movie, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, will be hitting cinemas in 2020. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 was easily one of the best comic book movies of this year and in my opinion, James Gunn managed to improve upon what he started with the…
The Black Widow movie’s scriptwriter is reportedly meeting with Scarlett Johansson and the film is rumoured to be an all female-led team-up movie. Last week we learned that Kevin Feige has hired a scriptwriter for the much-rumoured and discussed Black Widow movie. The scriptwriter in question was the up-and-coming Jac Shaeffer, and now, according to…
