Comedy Stars Most Dramatic Turns
The IT Crowd funnyman Chris O’Dowd turns is a surprisingly stoic and understated dramatic performance in The Program, playing the real life Sunday Times journalist who battled to expose the Lance Armstrong drugs cheating scandal that exploded the world of professional cycling. It’s not the first time a comedian has shocked audiences by playing it [...]
Screen Actors Guild Awards Winners 2016
The winners for the Screen Actors Guild Awards 2016 have been announced at a star sudden ceremony. Spotlight took home top honours for film with Leonardo Di Caprio and Brie Larson landing predictable acting wins. Meanwhile double wins for Idris Elba, Viola Davis, Queen Latifah and Uzo Aduba meant the event is already being widely praised [...]
Spotlight Review
The Plot: Inspired by actual events, Spotlight dramatically documents the efforts of the investigative reporting team of the Boston Globe to expose epidemic levels of child abuse within the Catholic Church and the subsequent systematic cover up by high ranking church officials. The Good: Spotlight is a truly Oscar worthy drama built around a tragic [...]
Trolls Official Trailer
Dreamworks has released their first look at their animated adventure based on cult kids toy classic the Troll doll. The trailer gives n early indication of how the garishly colored big hair and plastic faces of your childhood will now garishly appear on screen. Official Synopsis Below: From the creators of Shrek comes the most [...]
London Critics’ Circle Film Awards Winners 2016
Large-scale spectacle and fine-tuned intimacy shared the spoils as the UK’s leading film critics unveiled the winners of their annual awards at London’s May Fair Hotel tonight. Toward the end of the star-studded black-tie ceremony, hosted by comedian Robin Ince, it was George Miller’s high-octane action extravaganza Mad Max: Fury Road that raced ahead of [...]
The Revenant Review
The Plot: After a brutal bear attack a severely wounded 19th Century frontiersman Hugh Glass is betrayed by his own hunting party and left for dead in the inhospitable wilderness. He battles against seemingly impossible odds to survive and relentlessly track down those responsible across the deadly wilds of North America. The Good: Directed with [...]
Dragon Blade Review
The Plot: A band of warriors charged with keeping order amongst warring nations on the volatile silk road trading route form an unlikely historic alliance with a legion of Roman soldiers to protect ancient China from a power hungry and ruthless Roman general. The Good Jackie Chan is the most iconic and internationally charismatic martial [...]
George Miller Will Make Mad Max Sequels
After apparently telling a reporter that he would not be making any more Mad Max films, Oscar nominated director George Miller has now spoken out to clarify that he does indeed have plans for at least two more films in the revitalized franchise. With Fury Road up for numerous awards at this year’s Oscars and [...]
BAFTA Film Awards Nominations 2016
Bridge of Spies and Carol each receive nine nominations. The Revenant is nominated in eight categories. Mad Max: Fury Road has seven nominations. Brooklyn and The Martian are each nominated six times. The Big Short, The Danish Girl and Ex Machina receive five nominations. Star Wars: The Force Awakens receives four nominations. Bridge of Spies is nominated in the following categories: Best Film, Director for Steven Spielberg, Original Screenplay, Original Music, Cinematography, Editing, Production Design and Sound. Mark Rylance is nominated [...]
Del Toro Set For Fantastic Voyage Remake
Guillermo Del Toro is reportedly in talks to replace Shawn Levy and direct the remake of Fantastic Voyage that James Cameron is producing. The 1966 cult classic original saw a submarine full of scientists shrunk and sent inside a man’s body to save him from a fatal blood clot after a failed assassination attempt. Cameron [...]