Well, the only thing new about these mutants is that they are younger versions of the ones we have come to know and love. This news coming to us from The Vox, reports that Director Bryan Singer has announced that key X-Men figures Cyclops, Storm and Jean Grey now have the actors to play them. […]
2014 was a fantastic year for the movie moustache. Wes Anderson’s acclaimed The Grand Budapest Hotel, sported some fabulous facial hair from Ralph Fiennes, Bill Murray and Adrian Brody (Tony Revolori gets bumped due to grease-penciling), as did Seth McFarlane’s Western comedy A Million Ways to Die in the West (which came with this bonus […]
Nicolas Cage has probably one of the most wildly uneven careers for an Oscar-winning actor in Hollywood. In 2014 alone, he made two movies that were on polar opposite ends of the spectrum, in terms of quality. Joe was his more critically-acclaimed movie and was a reminder of the terrific actor he can be, when choosing […]
Sci-fi is a genre where writers and filmmakers can explore the possibilities of the future. They can also use the genre to allows us to see dark versions of the present or future, showing society at its worst, the dystopia sub-genre. They can be totalitarian regimes dominating society or societies starting fall apart and struggling. […]
There are some big hits from 2014 new on DVD this week, including the high-grossing Lucy, and the critically-acclaimed gangster film, The Drop. We have decided to take a more animated route, and choose Laika’s, The Boxtrolls, as our recommendation of the Week. New Release: The Boxtrolls – (Blu-ray, DVD and Instant) Lucy – (Blu-ray, DVD and Instant) […]
Stephen Sondheim is one of the world’s most famous composers of Broadway musicals (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street) and now one of his most cherished musicals, Into the Woods, has made its way to the big screen by talented Oscar-winning director Rob Marshall (Chicago). The good news, the musical has been kept in proper […]
Courtesy of Eureka Entertainment and their Masters of Cinema series is the British re-release of the seminal sci-fi classic Metropolis, restored to a running time of 148 minutes thanks to a find of a near complete version of the original cut of the film in Buenos Aires. Only 4000 copies of the Steelbook version will […]
