Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa, 2013. Directed by Jeff Tremaine.Starring Johnny Knoxville, Jackson Nicoll, Greg Harris, and Georgina Cates. SYNOPSIS: 86-year-old Irving Zisman takes a trip from Nebraska to North Carolina to take his 8 year-old grandson, Billy, back to his real father. Approximately an hour into Bad Grandpa, Johnny Knoxville’s Irving Zisman looks at his […]

Anthony Stokes on how 12 Years a Slave succeeded where Django Unchained failed… As I was walking out of 12 Years a Slave I noticed a majority of the audience stayed back and watched the credits. Apart from during a Marvel movie I’ve only seen this happen a few times – Black Swan, The Social […]

We’re just over a week away from our November 14th screening of zombie comedy movie Stalled at the Prince Charles Cinema in Leicester Square ahead of its UK release next year – and it’s just gotten even more exciting. Not only will director Christian James and writer/star Dan Palmer be on stage for a Q&A session after […]

How to Survive a Plague, 2012. Directed by David France. SYNOPSIS: The story of two coalitions — ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group) — whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition. This is the story of two groups of activists, ACT UP and TAG, whose passion, dedication […]

Matt Smith reviews the second episode of Elementary season 2… Television used to be seen, and in some circles still is seen, as a distraction. Something we take in as almost a kind of sugary nourishment, full of nothing and only serving to take us away from our lives for a half hour to an […]

Anghus Houvouras reviews the sixth episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D…. I’ve heard the criticism levied against Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., which at this point has reached near deafening levels.  It’s dry, bereft of energy, lacks charisma, and needs a powerful infusion of Marvel’s more super powered (i.e. where are the super powered heroes and villains?) […]

While Marvel Studios seems reluctant to confirm Vin Diesel’s casting as the voice of Groot in Guardians of the Galaxy (possibly due to all the rumours about a dual role as Thanos), but Parks and Recreation star Chris Pratt (Star-Lord) is certainly talking like it’s a done deal. And considering Groot has just one line, […]

Trevor Hogg chats with Gavin Hood and Matthew Butler about the creative challenges encountered while bringing Ender’s Game to the big screen…. When writing the screenplay for the cinematic adaptation of Ender’s Game by novelist Orson Scott Card, filmmaker Gavin Hood (Tsotsi) discovered creative inspiration from his own life.  “For me it wasn’t so much […]

With The Wolverine shaking off a mediocre domestic run to become the second highest grossing X-Men movie globally behind X-Men: The Last Stand, it seems that 20th Century Fox are keen to reunite leading man Hugh Jackman and director James Mangold, with Deadline reporting that the studio has opened negotiations for another solo outing from […]

Kevin Smith may have already begun shooting his body shock horror/comedy Tusk, but he hasn’t finished the casting with Epic Meal Time frontman Harley Morenstein joining. Although there’s no word on the role he is playing, The Sauce Boss confirmed that he will appear early on in the film and has “a whole bunch of […]