The Greasy Strangler Official Poster
Check out the first official poster below for The Greasy Strangler and an exclusive interview with the film’s director Jim Hosking.
This Los Angeles–set tale follows Big Ronnie, a man who runs a disco walking tour along with his browbeaten son, Brayden. When a sexy, alluring woman named Janet comes to take the tour, it begins a competition between father and son for her attentions. It also brings about the appearance of an oily, slimy, inhuman maniac who stalks the streets at night and strangles the innocent—soon dubbed “the Greasy Strangler.”
Flush your expectations down the toilet, because you have never seen a slasher film or a father-son comedy like this before. Writer/Director Jim Hosking has made an outrageously off-kilter feature film debut that is equal parts disgusting, offensive, and manically entertaining. Featuring performances by Michael St. Michaels, Sky Elobar, and Elizabeth De Razzo that are destined for cult status, The Greasy Strangler also enlists a dream team of talent behind the camera, including a deliriously fun score by Andrew Hung of F*ck Buttons and a few of the most prominent genre film producers from across the globe including Theo Brooks, Tim League, Ben Wheatley, Andrew Starke, Ant Timpson, Josh C. Waller, Daniel Noah, and Elijah Wood.
The Greasy Strangler sips into cinemas and VOD on 7th October.
Fantastic Beasts 2 Gets 2018 Release
With a little over three months to wait for Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them’s release, Warner Bros are already moving forward with the planned sequel and have today announced the release them. November 16th 2018 will bring Potter fans their next cinematic fix, two years after the first installment is released. While not much is known about the plot, especially given the first has yet to hit screens, director David Yates is confirmed to return to the directors chair, making this his 6th film in the Potter universe, with JK Rowling already having completed the script for the next installment.
More news as we get it but you can catch Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them in cinemas from November 18th.
Suicide Squad European Premiere Pictures
Courtesy of our frineds at Warner Bros. check out a set of photos from the star-studded SUICIDE SQUAD European Premiere, featuring the cast on the red carpet in London’s Leicester Square last night.
Will Poulter Joins Detroit Riots Movie
Will Poulter has joined the cast of director Kathryn Bigelow’s next project, an as yet untitled crime drama set during the 1967 Detroit riots. Joining the recently cast John Boyega, Poulter is one of three new additions to the cast with Jack Reynor and Ben O’Toole (The Water Diviner) also jumping on board. On writing duties is Mark Boal, who previously worked with Bigelow on The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty. Though details on the project are scarce, the supposed plan is for the film to be released in 2017 to mark the 50th anniversary of the riots, with production due to begin soon.
More news as we get it but Poulter will next be seen opposite Brad Pitt in War Machine due out later this year.
Pete’s Dragon Review
The Plot
A kind forest ranger discovers an orphaned boy called Pete living in the remotest part of the vast North America woodlands. However Pete is mostly just anxious to be reunited with his magical best friend Elliot, who happens to be a green fluffy Dragon.
The Good
The original 1977 Disney film version of Pete’s Dragon fused live action and animation in a ground-breaking way that easily captured the imagination of children at the time. Nearly three decades later visual effects have been revolutionised by photo realistic CGI, allowing Disney to beautifully re-imagine this timeless story for a whole new generation.
Although the well-crafted visual effects that make the new film possible are far more commonplace today than the innovative animated breakthrough of the 70s original, they are no less impressive. Elliot is a charming and utterly credible magical creation. He is also uniquely sweet natured, fluffy and adorable; in sharp contrast to the typically ferocious monsters Dragon’s become on screen.
Elliot provides the film with its wondrous spectacle and action sequences, while his emotional connection with young Pete provides the film with its heart. Despite being a Dragon Elliot is effectively Pete’s best friend, pet and surrogate parent. Though it may be an unashamed cliché, the bond of love between them is the true magic the story ultimately celebrates.
Director David Lowery and his young star Oakes Fegley do a good job in making Pete naively wide eyed and inquisitive without allowing him to ever become irritating. The presence of screen legend Robert Redford, Karl Urban, Wes Bentley and leading lady Bryce Dallas Howard only serves to make a well told tale even more watchable.
Redford is perfectly cast as the kindly old man, offering magical wisdom and fatherly support to Howard’s disbelieving forest ranger Grace. In her own turn Bryce Dallas Howard is simply brilliant in a sweet natured and maternal role that is in total contrast to her recent star making turn in Jurassic World. Howard’s character is precisely the kind of level headed and open hearted heroine that Disney adventures so often successfully rely on.
Overall Pete’s Dragon is a story about family, friendship and never losing your sense of childish imagination and playful wonder.
The Bad
The most impatient of audience may wonder why it takes the adults Pete encounters quite so long to realise there’s a friendly dragon in the woods, but in truth there’s nothing genuinely negative that can be said about this thoroughly enchanting slice of old school Disney magic.
The Ugly Truth
Pete’s Dragon is a truly heart-warming tale that epitomizes all that’s best in modern special effects and the enduring magic of Disney storytelling. An all-star cast and an adorable fluffy dragon give audiences of any age something to deeply enjoy.
Review by Russell Nelson