DUNCAN JONES, the director of Moon, Source Code, Warcraft and Mute, has revealed what his next project will be. He’s going to direct a comic book movie – an adaptation of 2000AD’s Rogue Trooper. Duncan Jones has already proven what a promising director he is. His debut film, Moon, was a triumph and quickly became…
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Director: Ari Aster Starring: Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, Milly Shapiro, Ann Dowd, Gabriel Byrne That a film deserves to be ‘treated with the same respect we have for The Exorcist, The Shining, and Psycho’ is a bold claim, but that is the quote (courtesy of Dazed and Confused) emblazoned across the poster for Ari Aster’s debut feature, Hereditary. Indeed, the…
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Director: J. A. Bayona Starring: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, B. D. Wong, Rafe Spall, Justice Smith, Daniella Pineda, James Cromwell, Toby Jones, Ted Levine, Jeff Goldblum After 25 years and several sequels of, shall we say, variable quality, some of the novelty has started to wear off the dinosaur-delivering Jurassic franchise. Sadly, this latest entry sees the series continue to teeter towards extinction: though director J….
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Director: Marc Meyers Starring: Ross Lynch, Alex Wolff, Dallas Roberts, and Anne Heche What if someone you knew at school grew up to be a serial killer? This was what happened to John ‘Derf’ Backderf, whose award-winning 2012 graphic novel My Friend Dahmer told the tale of a teenage Backderf’s acquaintance with a young man called Jeffrey Dahmer, who would ultimately become…
Jeff Goldblum has been talking about whether The Grandmaster will turn up again in the MCU after the event of Avengers: Infinity War, and he’s pretty confident he will. Who doesn’t love Jeff Goldblum, right? He’s just so easy to love, and whoever came up with the idea of bringing the iconic actor into the…
There’s a new rumour suggesting (once again) that Ben Affleck may leave the Batman role and therefore won’t be in Matt Reeves’ Batman standalone movie. In yet another twist in the ‘will Ben Affleck stay as the Batman?’ saga, new reports are suggesting that the Batman v Superman and Justice League actor will indeed say…
Kevin Feige has revealed which Marvel movie he thinks is the best, and it’s not the film you might expect. The best film in the MCU, according to Feige, is Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther. The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU for short) has become something that every other movie studio in Hollywood wants to emulate. We’ve…
Dave Bautista has said that the chances of us getting a Guardians of the Galaxy spinoff Drax movie are very high, or to use his words, “astronomically high”. Dave Bautista’s Drax has become one of the most popular members of the Guardians of the Galaxy, some may say he’s one of the most popular Marvel…
Rian Johnson, the writer/director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, took to Twitter to say that he’s “done with this disingenuous bullshit” after Kelly Marie Tran quit Instagram supposedly due to harassment and abuse from Internet trolls. OK, let’s make this perfectly clear. Harassing and abusing someone on social media, or in any medium, is…
Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse already looked like a lot of fun, and now there’s another new trailer which has us even more excited to see this animated Spider-Man adventure. Spider-Man is in a very good place right now, which is mad considering how poor Spider-Man 3, The Amazing Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 were. For…
Warner Bros. has announced that they’re going to be working on another Joker standalone movie which is star Jared Leto as the Joker. The DC film universe is becoming more and more convoluted every day. First, we learnt that they are making a standalone Joker movie which will be directed by The Hangover’s Todd Phillips,…
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Director: Junpei Mizusaki Starring: Roger Craig Smith, Tony Hale, Grey Griffin, Tara Strong, Adam Croasdell, Fred Tatasciore Batman + Ninjas + Japanese animation… All this goodness must result in one of the greatest animated Batman films of all time, right? Unfortunately, Batman Ninja isn’t quite as good in real-life as it looks on paper. The…
Drew Goddard, the man who’s been tasked with writing and directing the X-Force movie, has opened up about his upcoming X-Men film and his reaction to that incredible X-Force-related scene in Deadpool 2. WARNING: SPOILERS FOR DEADPOOL 2 ARE IN THIS ARTICLE! Deadpool 2 is still raking in the cash at the box office; it…
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Director: Ron Howard Starring: Alden Ehrenreich, Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke, Donald Glover, Thandie Newton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Joonas Suotamo, Paul Bettany With 2016’s release of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Disney ushered in an innovative model for the Star Wars franchise: whilst fans could (and can still) rely on a trilogy of sequels to continue the traditional Jedi/Sith conflict, the biennial stand-alone films would…
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Director: Nora Twomey Starring: Saara Chaudry, Soma Bhatia, Noorin Gulamgaus, Kane Mahon, Laara Sadiq Animation can help make grim events more palatable for audiences (a live-action Grave of the Fireflies, for example, would surely have been unwatchable). In The Breadwinner, director Nora Twomey looks to do the same, by taking a bleak tale and turning it into something rather entrancing….
Shazam!’s director, David F. Sandberg, has shared a hilarious picture of Shazam in the background watching Ben Affleck’s Batman and Henry Cavill’s Superman duke it out in Batman v Superman. Zachary Levi, you might know him from the brilliant TV series Chuck, will be bringing Shazam to the big screen in 2019, much to my…
David Leitch has revealed that Deadpool 2 will be getting a ‘Director’s Cut’ of sorts with an extra 12 minutes of never-before-seen footage. WARNING: DEADPOOL 2 SPOILERS TO FOLLOW! Deadpool 2 is already jam-packed with jokes, yet it looks like Fox will be releasing a version of the movie on DVD and Blu-ray with even…
Jake Gyllenhaal is reportedly in talks with Marvel and Sony to play the villain, Mysterio, in the sequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming 2. Mysterio’s been a villain that I’ve wanted to see on the big screen ever since these Spider-Man movies began. I’m talking specifically about Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man films, not the ones made in the 70s…
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Director: David Leitch Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin, Morena Baccarinm, Julian Dennison, Zazie Beetz, T.J. Miller, Brianna Hildebrand, Jack Kesy Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool is back in Deadpool 2, this time he has to deal with a half-man-half-cyborg time-travelling mutant in Josh Brolin’s Cable who’s come from the future to kill Julian Dennison’s young mutant, Russell. Deadpool feels compelled to do…
James Gunn was asked on Twitter what the third Guardians Of The Galaxy movie will be called and rather unsurprisingly it’s Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3. To be honest, I’m not quite sure how ‘newsworthy’ this is, but people are writing about it, so I thought, “why not do an article about the third Guardians…
