It’s that time of year again. The end of the year, specifically, when we make lists, and here are the sci-fi, fantasy and horror movies that had us talking in 2017. It’s been an exceptional year for the genre, as Wonder Woman stormed the box-office, Logan made us cry, Caesar hunted for vengeance and studios
Month: December 2017
Partners in magical crime Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) and Tina Goldstein (Katherine Waterston) are back together again for this brand new still from Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald, and they seem to have got a lot cooler in the time since we last saw them. The image comes courtesy of Empire, and you can
The trailer for Nicolas Cage’s latest film Mom And Dad is here, and it looks… interesting… Basically, he plays a dad, Selma Blair plays a mum and they both want to murder their kids. But it’s a horror-comedy. Just watch: You can read the film’s synopsis here: A teenage girl and her little brother must survive
For those unfamiliar with the world of Black Lightning, here’s a synopsis for the series: Jefferson Pierce is a man wrestling with a secret. Nine years ago, Pierce was gifted with the superhuman power to harness and control electricity, which he used to keep his hometown streets safe as the masked vigilante Black Lightning. However, after
Heather Child’s debut novel Everything About You hits bookshelves (and the virtual bookshelves you find on the internet) on 26 April and we have the cover reveal for you thanks to the folks at Orbit Books! Here’s what you need to know: “Freya has a new virtual assistant. It knows what she likes, knows what
Click here to see full size. Pacific Rim Uprising stars John Boyega, Scott Eastwood, Tian Jing, Adria Arjona, Cailee Spaeny, Levi Meaden, Jin Zhang and Lily Ji. You can read the full synopsis for the film here: The globe-spanning conflict between otherworldly monsters of mass destruction and the human-piloted super-machines built to vanquish them was only a
Though the whole ‘Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming R-rated Star Trek movie’ thing has kind of felt like a collective fever dream, it very much is still happening. The news wheels are quickly turning, with the latest update being that the project has already found a screenwriter. According to Deadline, Paramount Pictures has tapped Mark L Smith to write
Studio Ponoc’s 2017 film Mary And The Witch’s Flower is getting a special Fathom Screening event in the US on 18 January 2018,so it has brought out a new trailer and a matching poster to mark the occasion. Check them out: And here’s the poster: Mary And The Witch’s Flower is directed by Academy Award-nominated Hiromasa Yonebayashi,
A gritty LA cop movie with genre elements should be the perfect fit for End Of Watch (yes, and Suicide Squad) director David Ayer, and Bright sounds like it should be a lot of fun on paper. In practice, it’s a plodding, uninspired twist on Alien Nation that lacks that film’s wit and invention and squanders every
Kenneth Branagh’s long-awaited Artemis Fowl adaptation has finally found its titular character in Ferdia Shaw, who will be making his screen debut. Branagh and casting director Lucy Bevan reportedly auditioned over 1,200 young actors for the role before finally deciding on Shaw, so we’re already pretty confident that he’s going to be a good fit. Along with Shaw,
Helen Mirren gets spooky in this new poster for horror Winchester: The House That Ghosts Built
By Poppy-Jay Palmer 20-12-17 4,868
Click here to see full size. You can read the synopsis for Winchester: The House That Ghosts Built here: Inspired by true events. On an isolated stretch of land 50 miles outside
The first trailer for The Nutcracker And The Four Realms is haunting and wonderful
By Poppy-Jay Palmer 20-12-17 47
The first trailer for Disney’s The Nutcracker And The Four Realms is here, and it’s quite something. Check it out: You can read the full synopsis for the film here: All Clara (Mackenzie Foy)
We have three copies of FrightFest favourite Our Evil to give away!
By Jonathan Hatfull 19-12-17 2,668
Brazilian horror Our Evil was one of the standouts at this year’s Horror Channel FrightFest, and we have three copies of the twisty, twisted blend of serial killer chills and occult strangeness to give away
Our Evil (Mal Nosso), the feature debut of writer/director/producer/editor Samuel Galli, is a film of two halves. In the first, hulking, bald, middle-aged Arthur (Ademir Esteves) wakes at 2.32am, searches the dark web, skimming over items like ‘credit card cloning’ ‘cannibalism’ and ‘necro’ to open a section on ‘assassination (South America)’, where he watches an online
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency may have built itself a cult fan following, but it looks like that isn’t enough; the show has been cancelled by BBC America after just two seasons. The news comes a couple of days after the US premiere of the Season 2 finale. In a statement, BBC America said of the cancellation:
The Earth is in peril and all we’ve got to save us are this groups of amateurs and idiots. It is one of my favourite sci-fi tropes, most often used in my favourite bastard genre sci-fi comedy: Guardians of the Galaxy, Galaxy Quest, Red Dwarf. Even The Fifth Element, though I am stretching the definition
We might not have to wait long for a second season of Netflix series The OA: co-creator, writer, executive producer and star Brit Marling recently confirmed on Twitter that all eight scripts for Season 2 have been written and, better yet, filming will officially begin in January. Excited and terrified by the road map of these
Preconceptions can sometimes make or break a film. It’s very easy to dismiss a reboot before even the title card has flashed on screen, and Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle has been particularly unlucky in that respect seeing as the loss of the origin film’s star, Robin Williams, is still raw three and a half
It was confirmed yesterday that Disney had bought 21st Century Fox for the “I didn’t even know there was that much money” sum of $66 billion, which naturally raised a lot of questions from movie fans everywhere. While it remains to be seen what this means for the future of things like Fox Searchlight, the adult-skewing comic
Henry James’ The Turn Of The Screw is one of the greatest ghost stories (or is it?) of all time, and was most famously adapted for the big screen in 1961 with Jack Clayton’s The Innocents. Now, the tale is getting another twist, as Variety reports a new film called The Turning is on the
The first trailer for the film adaptation of David Levithan’s YA novel Every Day is here, and all we can say is prepare to get a bit emotional: To get a little bit more on what the heck’s going on, here’s Every Day‘s Amazon synopsis: Every day a different body. Every day a different life. Every day in
Like us, Star Trek: Discovery is already anticipating the return of Season 1 in January, if these brand new character posters are anything to go by. You can read the synopsis for the show here: Star Trek: Discovery will follow the voyages of Starfleet on their missions to discover new worlds and new lifeforms, and one
In a month packed with films featuring massive spectacle and enormous budgets, you should treat yourself to something a little different, something that’s going to get under your skin. The Unseen, written and directed by Gary Sinyor, is a British chiller about a grieving couple (played by Jasmine Hyde and Richard Flood) who are struggling
You can read the full synopsis for Bright here: Set in an alternate present-day, this action-thriller directed by David Ayer (Suicide Squad, End of Watch, writer of Training Day) follows two cops from very different backgrounds (Ward, a human played by Will Smith, and Jakoby, an orc played by Joel Edgerton) who embark on a routine patrol night that will ultimately
After The Hunger Games, Zombieland and War Of The Planet Of The Apes, Woody Harrelson looks to be becoming something of a genre regular. The point is driven home even further following the news that the actor is currently in talks to star in Sony’s upcoming superhero film Vemon. Sony has not commented on the casting yet and the character details are, as
Click here for full size. Just look at that piece of art. Beautiful. For those unfamiliar with the world of Black Lightning, here’s a synopsis for the series: Jefferson Pierce is a man wrestling with a secret. Nine years ago, Pierce was gifted with the superhuman power to harness and control electricity, which he used to
We were very impressed by the first season of The Punisher‘s solo run on Netflix when it hit last month (check out our review here), so we’re pleased to hear that Frank Castle and company will be back for another season. The show’s official Twitter account made the announcement with a li’l video thing. Time
Nostalgia is a wonderful thing, and the last two Star Wars films have explored and plundered their past with great success. Rian Johnson’s The Last Jedi knows and loves its predecessors and it certainly isn’t above a heart-warming (or a heart-breaking) call-back every now and then, but it’s a bold step away from what’s come
The new poster for the upcoming Tomb Raider reboot fixes you with Alicia Vikander’s steely gaze and it’s definitely an improvement on the last one. (via IMPAwards) “Lara Croft, the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when she finds herself on the island where her father disappeared.” The
In case you’d forgotten that an animated Spider-Man movie from Phil Lord and Christopher Miller was on the way, here’s the first trailer, which shows the art style and gives us our first look at the film’s take on Miles Morales. “Phil Lord and Chris Miller, the creative minds behind The Lego Movie and 21 Jump