The long-gestating Freddie Mercury biopic finally seems to be moving forward, with Deadline revealing that British filmmaker Dexter Fletcher (Wild Bill, Sunshine on Leith) has closed a deal with GK Films to direct the film, which has Ben Whishaw (Skyfall, Cloud Atlas) attached to star as the legendary Queen frontman after Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat, […]

Villordsutch reviews Think Tank #11… “World War III is imminent! And the only person stepping forward to prevent it is the slacker genius Dr. David Loren! Can a lab rat who has never even fired a handgun stop a weapon of mass destruction?” If I was held against a wall in front of a firing […]

According to Bleeding Cool, rising British actor Jack O’Connell “is a real contender for a key role in Star Wars: Episode VII” and is said to have met with director J.J. Abrams with a view to joining the cast of the eagerly-anticipated Star Wars sequel. After making his debut in 2006’s This Is England, O’Connell […]

Having secured the Dark Knight (Ben Affleck) and the Amazon Princess (Gal Gadot), it seems that casting on Batman vs. Superman is moving full steam ahead, with various sources reporting that Jason Momoa (Game of Thrones, Conan the Barbarian) is in talks with Warner Bros. about taking on a role in the upcoming Man of […]

Oldboy, 2013. Directed by Spike Lee.Starring Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen, Samuel L. Jackson, Sharlto Copley, Michael Imperioli, and Pom Klementieff. SYNOPSIS: Obsessed with vengeance, a man sets out to find out why he was kidnapped and locked into solitary confinement for 20 years without reason. Oldboy is an incredibly difficult film to review. In a […]

2 Guns may not have set the box office alight, making a decent but wholly unremarkable $131 million worldwide, but it was an entertaining throwback to the buddy cop films of the 80s. While out promoting Lone Survivor, producer Randall Emmett spoke to Collider about the possibility of a sequel to the film which starred […]

Potential X-Men: Days of Future Past and X-Men: Apocalypse spoilers ahead…. Bryan Singer had barely hit the tweet button on his big reveal that X-Men: Apocalypse is set to hit cinemas in 2016 before several websites popped up claiming to have the inside scoop on plot details, most notably a report about the end credit […]

Simon Columb reviews Election from BFI Southbank’s Alexander Payne retrospective… Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach. So the age-old saying goes. Election, Alexander Payne’s second feature, hit cinema screens in 1999 and immediately found a fan-base by deconstructing this mantra and showing it in all its school-emblem colours. Kicking off Reese Witherspoon’s career […]

Despite the fact that J.J. Abrams has vacated the director’s chair in favour of Star Wars: Episode VII, Paramount Pictures is wasting little time in moving Star Trek 3 up to full impulse power, with The Hollywood Reporter revealing that screenwriters J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay will join Robert Orci in penning the script for […]

Fans of Peter Berg’s The Rundown should rejoice for the director has revealed that he is currently developing a sequel to the Dwayne Johnson / Seann William Scott action comedy. Although it was met with an almost universal shrug of the shoulders from critics, the 2003 film has seemingly become a cult classic and Berg […]