Villordsutch chats with filmmaker Greg Olliver… Greg Olliver is a producer and director as well as owner /operator of Secret Weapon Films.  Greg is known for such films as Lemmy (winner of Best film In-Edit/Chile Film Film Festival), Turned Towards the Sun (Official Selection and BFI London Film Festival 2012) and Devoured (reviewed here at […]

12 Years a Slave, 2013. Directed by Steve McQueen.Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Brad Pitt, Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Fassbender, Sarah Paulson, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti, Quvenzhané Wallis, Garret Dillahunt, Lupita Nyong’o, Michael K. Williams, Scoot McNairy, Ruth Negga and Taran Killam. SYNOPSIS: In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, […]

Villordsutch reviews Image Comics’ Rat Queens #2… “Someone wants to kill the Rat Queens? The girls are seeing red and there’s only one thing to do about it: get really, really drunk. And, eventually, maybe get to the bottom of who’s trying to kill them. Because, let’s be honest, they already know why.”With an outstanding […]

We’ve already heard some comments from Ben Affleck about his controversial casting as The Dark Knight in Warner Bros.’ Batman vs. Superman but now the actor has offered up a few more words about his upcoming role in the Man of Steel sequel, explaining how he was initially unsure of taking on the part until […]

In one of the more bizarre piece of casting news announced today, Reservoir Dogs and Broken star Tim Roth is to play the head of FIFA and the dark lord Sepp Blatter in a film to be released alongside the 2014 Brazil World Cup. Seeing as it is to be released pretty much as an […]

Over the past few months, the idea that Will Smith may be involved in Independence Day 2 – a.k.a. ID Forever Part I – has been up in the air. Some reports signal that he will be returning to the film that made him a star, while others have said he priced them out of […]

The Walking Dead’s Chandler Riggs and Ioan Gruffudd (Fantastic Four) have joined the new thriller Home Invasion. Sean Carter, who is mostly known for directing commercials, is set to direct and Joseph Dembner has already written the script. The story focuses on a family imprisoned in their own home by intruders who play a life-and-death […]

Last week it was reported that Paul Rudd (This Is Forty, Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues) and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (The Dark Knight Rises, Don Jon) were in the running to play Hank Pym in Edgar Wright’s Ant-Man, with the latter said to be “in talks.” However, according to Schmoes Know – who earlier this week […]

Alice Rush reviews the third episode of American Horror Story: Coven… As I stated in last week’s review I’m waiting and hoping for this run of American Horror Story to start echoing the drama and conflict of the previous seasons. Whilst the setting, characters and storyline is all there it just feels to be lacking […]

When Disney made its huge purchase of Lucasfilm last year, it was revealed that Oscar-winning screenwriter Michael Arndt (Little Miss Sunshine, Toy Story 3) had produced a treatment for a new Sequel Trilogy, and was busy hammering away at the screenplay for Star Wars: Episode VII. Since then, J.J. Abrams (Star Trek Into Darkness) has […]