Polar, 2019. Directed by Jonas Åkerlund. Starring Mads Mikkelsen, Vanessa Hudgens, Katheryn Winnick, Richard Dreyfuss and Matt Lucas. SYNOPSIS: The world’s top assassin, Duncan Vizla, is settling into retirement when his former employer marks him as a liability to the firm. Against his will, he finds himself back in the game going head to head with […]
Movie Review – Polar (2019)
Polar, 2019 Directed by Jonas Akerlund. Starring Mads Mikkelsen, Vanessa Hudgens, Katheryn Winnick, Richard Dreyfuss and Matt Lucas. SYNOPSIS: A talented hitman is nearing retirement and will receive an eight-million dollar pension on his fiftieth birthday. His employers send out a team of younger assassins to take him out before his big payday. Based on […]
Mads Mikkelsen is the world’s top assassin in Polar trailer
Netflix has released the trailer for their upcoming Dark Horse Comics adaptation Polar starring Hannibal and Doctor Strange villain Mads Mikkelsen. Playing the world’s retired top assassin The Black Kaiser, he is on the run from his former employers after he’s deemed a liability and marked for death. The film is directed by Jonas Åkerlund (Lords of Chaos) […]
LAIKA’s Missing Link gets a first trailer and posters
Annapurna Pictures and LAIKA have released the first trailer for the upcoming animated comedy adventure Missing Link. Written and directed by Chris Butler, the film features the voice talents of Hugh Jackman, Zoe Saldana, Zach Galifianakis, Timothy Olyphant, David Walliams, Emma Thompson, Matt Lucas, Ching Valdes-Aran, Stephen Fry, and Amrita Acharia; take a look here along […]
Exclusive Interview – John Cameron Mitchell on How To Talk To Girls at Parties, working on GLOW and how he couldn’t make Shortbus today
Tom Beasley chats to John Cameron Mitchell about How To Talk To Girls at Parties, which brings aliens to Croydon, ahead of its release on DVD and Blu-ray… Aliens? In Croydon? How To Talk To Girls at Parties brought an alien invasion to London, through the prism of Enn (Alex Sharp) and his group of […]
Movie Review – Sherlock Gnomes (2018)
Sherlock Gnomes, 2018. Directed by John Stevenson. Featuring the voice talents of James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Johnny Depp, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Maggie Smith, Michael Caine, Mary J. Blige, Jamie Demetriou, Ashley Jensen and Matt Lucas. SYNOPSIS: When all of their friends are kidnapped right out of the garden, Gnomeo and Juliet join forces with a backyard-based […]
Laika announces fifth film Missing Link, starring Hugh Jackman and Zach Galifianakis, for Spring 2019
Animation studio Laika has revealed that its fifth film is Missing Link, which will see Hugh Jackman as an English gent in search of Zach Galifianakis’s mysterious, mythical beast. The studio, best known for Coraline and Kubo and the Two Strings, unveiled its new movie ahead of meetings at the Cannes Film Festival. Annapurna will […]
Movie Review – Sherlock Gnomes (2018)
Sherlock Gnomes, 2018. Directed by John Stevenson. Starring James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Johnny Depp, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Maggie Smith, Michael Caine, Mary J. Blige, Jamie Demetriou, Ashley Jensen and Matt Lucas. SYNOPSIS: When all of their friends are kidnapped right out of the garden, Gnomeo and Juliet join forces with a backyard-based sleuth to track down […]
How to Talk to Girls at Parties gets a new trailer and poster
A new trailer and poster have debuted for John Cameron Mitchell’s upcoming adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s short story How to Talk to Girls at Parties. The sci-fi rom-com features a cast that includes Elle Fanning, Alex Sharp, Nicole Kidman, Ruth Wilson, and Matt Lucas; check them out here… From the raucous dual imaginations of fantasy laureate Neil Gaiman (“American […]
Vanessa Hudgens, Katheryn Winnick and Matt Lucas join Mads Mikkelsen in graphic novel adaptation Polar
Back in October it was announced that Mads Mikkelsen had been cast as the lead in Polar, an adaptation of Victor Santos’ Dark Horse graphic novel Polar: Came From the Cold from Netflix and Constantin Film. Well, cameras have now officially started rolling on the project, which is being directed by Jonas Akerlund (Spun) from a script by Jayson Rothwell (Silent […]
