While Fifty Shades of Grey has taken a whopping $265 million worldwide since its debut over the weekend, many fans who were unable to get tickets have taken to other means in order to see the film. Piracy-tracking experts Excipio has reported that the erotic romance has been download nearly 300,000 times across the globe, […]
Scarlett Johansson to star in The Psychopath Test
Deadline is today reporting that Scarlett Johansson is in talks with Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment to star in The Psychopath Test, an adaptation of the novel by Jon Ronson. Austin Powers director Jay Roach is set to direct the adaptation, which is being written by Kristen Gore (Accidental Love) and produced by Oscar winner […]
Across the Pondcast: What ever happened to Johnny Depp making good movies?
Across the Pondcast discusses… This week, the Across the Pondcast looks at the career of Johnny Depp and asks where it started to derail. Anghus (US) and Rohan (UK) pick out their favourite of Depp’s performances and then discuss what he can do to try and revive his flailing career in the wake of his latest […]
Movie Review – The Duke of Burgundy (2014)
The Duke of Burgundy, 2014. Directed by Peter Strickland. Starring Sidse Babett Knudsen, Chiara D’Anna, Fatma Mohamed, Eugenia Caruso and Monica Swinn. SYNOPSIS: Two lovers engage in a ritualistic passage of behaviour that brings one close to obsession and one looking for a way out… Peter Strickland is without a shadow of a doubt one of the […]
Movie Review – The Wedding Ringer (2015)
The Wedding Ringer, 2015 Directed by Jeremy Garelick Starring Kevin Hart, Josh Gad, Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting, Olivia Thirlby, Alan Ritchson, Josh Peck, Cloris Leachman and Jorge Garcia SYNOPSIS: Two weeks shy of his wedding, a socially awkward guy enters into a charade by hiring the owner of a company that provides best men for grooms in […]
Dan Aykroyd defends Ghostbusters remake, “I believe in female empowerment”
Paul Feig’s all-female Ghostbusters remake is really facing an uphill struggle if the comments from the more vocal fans are anything to go by. We’ve already heard Ernie Hudson denounce the movie and then change his mind, but we’ve also heard more positive thoughts from original Ghostbusters co-writer and star Dan Aykroyd. “The Aykroyd family […]
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales goes into production; synopsis and cast revealed
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales has officially gone into production and Disney has now revealed the official synopsis and cast for the fifth instalment of the blockbuster franchise… Thrust into an all-new adventure, a down-on-his-luck Captain Jack Sparrow finds the winds of ill-fortune blowing even more strongly when deadly ghost pirates […]
Movie Review – Cake (2015)
Cake, 2015 Directed by Daniel Barnz Starring Jennifer Aniston, Adriana Barraza, Anna Kendrick, Sam Worthington, and William H. Macy SYNOPSIS: Claire becomes fascinated by the suicide of a woman in her chronic pain support group while grappling with her own, very raw personal tragedy. Every actor has that role in their career where they break free […]
Felicity Jones confirmed for Inferno, more cast members added
Columbia Pictures has revealed the cast for the adaptation of the Dan Brown novel Inferno, which will reunite The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons director Ron Howard and star Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon. Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything) has now been confirmed for the role of Dr Sienna Brooks after months […]
Fifty Shades of Grey shatters records at the UK box office
UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 13th February to Sunday 15th February 2015… Well, given its colossal worldwide opening, this won’t come as a surprise at all, but Fifty Shades of Grey has shattered records here in the UK with its debut weekend of £13,550,290 giving it the biggest […]