Horror comedy web series Netfl!x And Kill will hit Hex Studios’ YouTube channel this weekend By Jonathan Hatfull 31-07-18 1,191 From Egomaniac and On Tender Hooks writer-director Kate Shenton comes a new horror comedy webseries: Netfl!x And Kill! The show follows the lives of two rather unique characters: a psychopath (Adam Rhys-Davies) and his victim (Nic
Month: July 2018
Tom Hardy and Venom are doing some very bad things to bad guys in the new trailer for the dark Spidey spin-off By Jonathan Hatfull 31-07-18 2,473 A new trailer for Venom has arrived and if you were feeling like you weren’t being given enough of the alien symbiote, you’re about to get a whole
This Meg continues to go all out with these lovely new art posters By Poppy-Jay Palmer 31-07-18 452 You can read the synopsis for The Meg here: Jason Statham (Spy, Furious 7, The Expendables films) and award-winning Chinese actress Li Bingbing (Transformers: Age of Extinction, Forbidden Kingdom, The Message) star in the science fiction action thriller The Meg, directed by Jon Turteltaub (the National
At its best, the horror anthology serves as a delicious amuse-bouche of scares. Ideally, the spread will feature complementary flavours and textures but in life, you rarely get exactly what you want. Mick Garris’ new horror anthology, Nightmare Cinema, is frankly a mix of good and bad. Featuring five filmmakers and six short films, Nightmare
Danny has disturbing flashbacks in this new teaser trailer for Iron Fist Season 2 By Poppy-Jay Palmer 30-07-18 201 Danny has a spot of trouble with bad memories in a new teaser trailer for Iron Fist. Check it out… Season 2 furthers the transformation of Danny, a character with a fish out of water coming
The production of Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina has been moving steadily but surely, with the show receiving a 2-season order from Netflix last December, casting its lead in January, deciding on a title in May, and throwing out a poster earlier this month. Now the series seems to be just about ready for us, with a release
We’ve been eagerly awaiting more news regarding BBC and production company Bad Wolf’s upcoming take on Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials novel series since it was announced, and today they’ve finally dropped a big one: basically the entire cast list. Dafne Keen (Logan) is playing young protagonist Lyra, and leading a rather impressive cast made up
Beloved manga and anime Bleach gets the live-action treatment By Justine Smith 27-07-18 1,112 Based on one of the most internationally acclaimed manga and anime series, the live-action adaptation of Bleach, directed by Shinsuke Sato keeps things simple. A basic origin story about high school student Ichigo (Sôta Fukushi) who becomes a Soul Reaper to
You’d think that Disney Pixar’s Incredibles 2 would have been enough to frighten off any children’s animations from being released in cinemas around the same time but it turns out Hotel Transylvania 3: A Monster Vacation doesn’t spook so easily. (It’s understandable; they’re the ones that are usually doing the scaring after all, right?) It
COULD A LOST DINOSAUR CIVILIZATION EVER HAVE EXISTED? It’s a bit of a silly idea, I know. And obviously the answer, before I’ve even started waffling, is very, very probably not. But why not? And how would we ever really know for sure? In my 147th century space opera series The Amaranthine Spectrum (getting the
Every new venture has a cost in the first trailer for Hulu and Channel 4’s SF series The First By Jonathan Hatfull 26-07-18 566 The first trailer for Hulu and Channel 4’s sci-fi series The First has arrived, with Sean Penn starring as part of an expedition to Mars. But every new venture has a
Aristocrats – aren’t they the worst? Entitled and elitist; cruel and often willfully sadistic. They’re more than wealthy, more than powerful – they believe the right to rule runs in their very veins. That’s what separates them from mere Bond-style supervillains. Anyone can claw themselves up to fortune or position, but you can’t buy class.
You can’t unsee the new trailer for Slender Man By Jonathan Hatfull 26-07-18 8,396 A new trailer has arrived for the controversial upcoming horror movie Slender Man, which is still set to be released on 24 August. Give it a look… The first trailer arrived some time ago and triggered a huge backlash, drawing
Resistance rises in this powerful new poster for The Man In The High Castle Season 3 By Poppy-Jay Palmer 26-07-18 9,506 Click here to see full size. The new Season 3 poster comes shortly after the long-awaited trailer, and the news that The Man In The High Castle Season 4 has officially been confirmed by Amazon. Meanwhile,
After an awful lot of production delays, cancellations and general faffing, things are finally looking up for the Locke And Key TV series: Neflix has confirmed that it will be picking the series up with a ten-episode order. Based on Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez’s comic book series of the same name, Locke And Key has had its
Peter Dinklage is lonely in this atmospheric new trailer for I Think We’re Alone Now By Poppy-Jay Palmer 25-07-18 393 It looks pretty cool and thematic, but also… what on Earth is he saying? We’ve no idea. I Think We’re Alone Now stars Peter Dinklage, Elle Fanning, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Paul Giamatti. It is
The next chapter of THE X-FILES™ is a thrilling 10-episode instalment of the classic, mind-bending series. David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson return as iconic FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully for THE X-FILES SEASON 11 available on Blu-ray and DVD now. The celebrate the release, we’re giving away a copy of Season 11 on
The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot has a glorious B-movie titles in history. It’s truly a thing of beauty, and although some viewers expecting a knockabout creature feature will be wrong-footed it speaks volumes about the old-fashioned simplicity of its hero. Sam Elliott’s Calvin Barr is an honest fellow living a quiet
Just when you start to think there aren’t enough Stephen King film adaptations on the horizon, a new one pops into existence. This time, it’s an adaptation of King’s horror novel From A Buick 8. According to Deadline, the film has been optioned by Ashok Amritraj’s Hyde Park Entertainment, and has Amritraj on board as a
As an author, when you attempt to write a genre crossover, you do so with some degree of trepidation. Are you about to create the literary equivalent of the Chindian takeaway, a monstrosity that dilutes two separate culinary delights? For which audience are you primarily writing, fans of genre A or genre B? Why does
“I came here to have a serious discussion with you, not to be psychoanalysed,” complains Ethan Lightman (Thomas Mann) to his semi-estranged girlfriend Hannah (Nicola Peltz), about halfway through Anthony Scott Burns’ Our House. The line marks an important transition. For up until this point, Our House has followed young adult Ethan, his teenaged brother
Anything goes on Purge Night in the first trailer for James DeMonaco’s The Purge TV series By Jonathan Hatfull 23-07-18 1,637 Hot on the heels of The First Purge comes The Purge TV series, which promises to get into the lives of people who are living with the one lawless night a year and what
In the great tradition of the horror anthology, Nightmare Cinema is the newest entry in the sub-genre. With a wraparound story featuring Mickey Rourke as the ominous Projectionist, this international collection of shorts brings together some of the greatest talents of horror. ‘The Projectionist’ is directed by Mick Garris, who also contributed a short called
“I’m an old soul.” Rachel (Rachel VanDuzer) blurts out these words in Justin McConnell’s Lifechanger to cover her strange declaration to fellow drinker Julia (Lora Blake) that she has been frequenting the bar since the Seventies. After all, young Rachel cannot possibly be a septuagenarian. She also, confusingly, introduces herself to Julia by a false
Josh Holloway sci-fi Colony has been cancelled after three seasons By Jonathan Hatfull 22-07-18 3,796 For anyone wondering why USA Network’s sci-fi drama Colony wasn’t at Comic-Con, there’s some bad news. Deadline reports that the show, created by Carlton Cuse and Ryan Condal, has been cancelled and that the upcoming Season Three finale will serve as
The Man In The High Castle Season 3 finally gets an air-date as Amazon greenlights Season Four By Jonathan Hatfull 22-07-18 2 Finally! We’d almost given up hope that The Man In The High Castle Season 3 would ever be released, but a trailer hit Comic-Con and revealed that it will be back this October.
Howard Overman is working on a contemporary take on War Of The Worlds By Jonathan Hatfull 21-07-18 1,042 There’s already a new BBC adaptation of HG Wells’ War Of The Worlds on the way, starring Rafe Spall and Eleanor Tomlinson, but it seems like Hollywood can’t leave the classic alone either. THR reports that Fox
Cloak & Dagger will be back with a second season in 2019 By Jonathan Hatfull 21-07-18 2,436 It’s good news for fans of Marvel’s Cloak And Dagger, as Freeform has given the well-received comic book series a second season. THR reports that the show will be back for a 10-episode run in spring 2019, and
There’s been some shocking news from the MCU as Disney has fired James Gunn from Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol 3. THR reports that the studio made the decision after right-wing personalities unearthed and highlighted offensive tweets that Gunn, who the site notes is “an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump,” had posted from 2010
Win a pair of tickets to a special rooftop silent screening of A Quiet Place with our competition By Poppy-Jay Palmer 20-07-18 4 To celebrate the Home Media release of John Krasinski’s critically acclaimed film A Quiet Place, we are giving you the chance to win tickets to a special rooftop screening on Wednesday, August