In this week’s “SURPRISE!” story, it turns out that after all the potential directors being looked at to direct James Bond 25, now Danny Boyle is on the list. Last summer, the studios announced a November 2019 release date for Bond 25, which started a ticking clock of sorts as they secured Daniel Craig to…
In another week of celluloid news, prepare to be astounded! Or at least mildly surpirsed. In this week’s “Kung Fury Returns!” story, the sequel to the awesome short, Kung Fury, is coming! And it will get some class with Michael Fassbender! Michael Fassbender and David Sandberg are set to star in action-comedy Kung Fury, which…
Unlike Chris Mancini, I don’t have an inherent problem with there being a connected Cloverfield Universe. However, that’s not to say that The Cloverfield Paradox is a great film, either. The Cloverfield Paradox release was delayed a couple times, and it was once titled The God Particle. You may or may not recall me talking about…
In this week’s “New Star Wars films are coming” story, Game of Thrones creators, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss will write and produce a new series of Star Wars films, Lucasfilm announced on Tuesday. These new films will be separate from both the episodic Skywalker saga and the recently-announced trilogy being developed by Rian Johnson,…
Hey, we’re back with some intriguing film news this week! In this week’s Hello, neighbor” story, TriStar Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to You Are My Friend, a biopic of iconic Mister Rogers Neighborhood creator Fred Rodgers that will star Tom Hanks as Rogers and be directed by Diary of a Teenage Girl helmer Marielle…
Bunch of stuff happening this week – including the Oscar nominations! Aah! In this week’s “FINALLY” story, Greta Gerwig becomes the fifth woman ever nominated for a Best Director Oscar. The Lady Bird helmer was the only woman nominated in the otherwise all-male field made up of Paul Thomas Anderson (Phantom Thread), Guillermo del Toro…
January continues! Stuff keeps happening! in this week’s “Son of Drago!” story, Apollo Creed’s son gets a new opponent in Creed 2. German-Romanian boxer Florian Munteanu will square off against Michael B. Jordan in Creed 2, MGM and Warner Bros.’ sequel to the 2015 hit that updated Rocky for a new generation, The Hollywood Reporter…
Liam Neeson returns in what I previously read was to be the last of his series action/thriller movies that began with Taken. The Commuter might as well be Taken on a train. With a lesser script. Liam Neeson is ex-cop Michael MacCauley, who, while riding the train home one day, is approached by a mysterious…
‘Tis the season for junk moives in the theater! It’s a new year! In this week’s “Weird, random reboot idea” story, remember that interesting film directed by Bong Joon Ho in 2013 called Snowpiecer? The one with Chris Evans on the big train in the snow that was an analogy of human class system? Well,…
Welcome to the new year! Here we go, 2018! In this week’s “Gunn responds thoughtfully” story, with all the worry and negative opinions about big budget Hollywood blockbusters – superhero movies in particular – director/actor Jodie Foster has added her two cents to the criticizing of these films. In an interview with Radio Times (via…