2008’s Doomsday was a passion project from horror director Neil Marshall. An homage to the B-Movies from the 70s and 80s which he grew up on – giving them a British spin. While the initial critical reception was mixed upon its original release, the movie has developed a cult following, particularly in Scotland. In 2008, […]
The 27th iteration of the New Orleans Film Festival is set to launch this week with the locally filmed LBJ, a political docudrama directed by Rob Reiner and starring Woody Harrelson and Jennifer Jason Leigh as the acclaimed presidential couple. The Festival announced that both Reiner and Harrelson will be in attendance for the opening night red-carpet event […]
There was so much comic book news to come out of New York Comic Con. Additionally, we learned a great deal about upcoming TV shows and movies based on comic books. During NYCC, there was also some big Black Panther movie casting news. What we found out about the actors involved not only increases excitement about […]
Check out Kat’s interviews at New York Comic Con 2016 with the cast and crew of Justice League Dark. Let us know your thoughts in the comments! Jason O’Mara (Batman) James Tucker (Producer) Jay Oliva (Director) Phil Bourassa (Character Designer) Matt Ryan (Constantine)
This is by no means a comprehensive look at Raindance Film Festival, but here is a snapshot with some mini reviews of the feature films I managed to catch! Down South (dir. Bob Yothers) In accordance with festival tradition, before the main feature, let’s take a moment to appreciate short films. For me, the stand out short […]
Released in 2002, 28 Days Later is one of the best British horror movies in the last 15 years and helped to revitalize the zombie sub-genre thanks to the efforts of Danny Boyle, Alex Garland and producer Andrew MacDonald – titans of the British film industry. Jim (Cillian Murphy) is a motorcycle courier who awakes from […]
If you go back to the 1954 Japanese epic historical drama Seven Samurai, directed by the legendary and incomparable Akira Kurosawa, it isn’t too difficult to understand that the film will focus on well, seven samurai. However, when you begin to look a bit deeper, you grow to understand that the rewards of the story […]
After a fantastic opening gala last night, the festival was in full flow today. The first complete day of the 24th annual Raindance Film Festival was ‘China Day’, featuring Hong Kong heist movie Three, unconventional romance My Heart Leaps Up, and Flower, a beautiful film about a mother and son. These contributions by Chinese directors […]
The Star Trek franchise is celebrating its 50th Anniversary this year. It has become a sci-fi juggernaut, spanning six TV series with the seventh in production, 13 movies have been made, featuring the Original, Next Generation and Reboot casts and has spun-off into novels, comics and video games. It has a large mythology that spans […]
The 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ has been adapted to screen six times, the most famous being the 1959 version with Charlton Heston that won 11 Academy Awards and one of the grandest movies from the Golden Age of Hollywood. A remake from Kazakh director Timur Bekmambetov with the Boardwalk Empire star […]
