Presenting our weekly round-up of the biggest stories from the world of movie superheroes… We kick things off this week with the rather disappointing news that The Wrestler and Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky has quit The Wolverine, leaving the status of Fox’s latest X-Men spin-off up in the air. The Wrap first broke the […]
DVD Review – We Are What We Are (2010)
We Are What We Are, 2010. Written and Directed by Jorge Michel Grau. Starring Adrián Aguirre, Miriam Balderas, Francisco Barreiro, Carmen Beato and Alan Chávez. SYNOPSIS: After the head of a family of cannibals dies, his wife and three children must confront the question of how to survive. We Are What We Are is a […]
Red Dawn remake revises its villains
The remake of 1984’s classic ‘kidz against the world’ tale Red Dawn has hit a snag due to the ethnicity of its villains and, fearing low box-office returns in China, MGM has insisted that the filmmakers digitally remove all traces of Chinese military and cultural symbols from the film. The new invading force will be […]
Megan Fox to star in Judd Apatow’s Knocked Up spin-off?
Megan Fox is reportedly in line to take a role in Judd Apatow’s follow-up to Knocked Up. The as-yet untitled spin-off to the 2007 comedy hit will see Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann return as the slightly crazed pairing of Pete and Debbie. Meanwhile Deadline are also reporting that Albert Brooks is set to join […]
R.I.P. Michael Gough (1916-2011)
Veteran British character actor Michael Gough has passed away aged 94 after a lengthy battle with illness, having enjoyed a career spanning seven decades and over 150 roles. Born in Kuala Lumpur in 1916, Gough first appeared in the 1946 TV movie Androcles and the Lion before making the transition to the silver screen two […]
Understanding Scorsese: A Martin Scorsese Profile (Part 3)
Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary American filmmaker Martin Scorsese in the third of a five part feature… read parts one and two. When he was approached by Paul Newman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid), who wanted to revise his signature role of Fast Eddie Felson from The Hustler (1961), Martin Scorsese was […]
Disney pull the plug on Robert Zemeckis’ Yellow Submarine remake
Following on from the dismal US opening of the Robert Zemeckis-produced motion-capture animation Mars Needs Moms (which banked just $6.9m in its opening weekend from a reported budget of $150m), THR have announced that The Walt Disney Company have called time on Zemeckis’ planned remake of the bonkers Beatles animation Yellow Submarine. According to sources […]
DVD Review – Across the Forest: Tales from Transylvania (2009)
Across the Forest: Tales from Transylvania, 2009. Directed by Justin Blair and Matthew Vincent. SYNOPSIS: Two American filmmakers journey to the mountains of Transylvania, where ancient beliefs in the supernatural can still be found. “I read that every known superstition in the world is gathered into the horseshoe of the Carpathians, as if it were […]
The Week in Spandex – X-Men: First Class, The Dark Knight Rises, The Punisher and The Governator
Presenting our weekly round-up of the biggest stories from the world of movie superheroes… The marketing campaign for Matthew Vaughn’s upcoming superhero prequel X-Men: First Class continues to deliver a rollercoaster of a ride, with opinion seemingly see-sawing from one week to the next. First up we had the disappointment of the initial character reveals […]
Neil Gaiman to write Journey to the West film series
Award-winning writer Neil Gaiman, whose works Coraline and Stardust have been turned into films in recent years, has signed on to write the scripts for an epic $300 million series of 3D feature films adapted from the ancient Chinese folk tale Journey to the West. The classic 16th century fantasy follows the misadventures of the […]