Just when we thought there was nobody left to meet in the MCU, we get Captain Marvel, the origin story of a Kree warrior hero with strange memories of Earth that don’t make sense to her. As she finds herself back on her home planet, she must reconnect with the world she has forgotten and
Month: March 2019
Check out this fun and action-packed new trailer for Shazam! By Poppy-Jay Palmer 05-03-19 270 Shazam! stars Zachary Levi as the titular DC superhero, along with Asher Angel as Billy Batson and Mark Strong in the role of supervillain Dr. Thaddeus Sivana. Peter Safran serves as the film’s producer, the screenplay was written by Henry Gayden and Darren Lemke,
When films open with establishing shots of a city, it’s normally to evoke a sense of place for a story that will, presumably, mostly take place there. When a horror opens this way, it can also be a way of setting up locations for third-act set-pieces. Zoo, written, directed, edited and scored by Antonio Tublen,
Jason Reitman’s Ghostbusters 3 is in talks with Finn Wolfhard and Carrie Coon By Poppy-Jay Palmer 04-03-19 2,120 Jason Reitman’s upcoming Ghostbusters film is already eyeing up some cast members, according to Variety. Finn Wolfhard (It, Stranger Things) and Carrie Coon (The Leftovers, Gone Girl) are currently in talks to join the threequel. Not much is known about
Meet the Wilsons in these new posters for Jordan Peele’s Us By Poppy-Jay Palmer 04-03-19 5,568 The Wilson family comes face to face with their worst nightmare (themselves) in this new banner poster collection for Jordan Peele’s upcoming horror Us, which you can check out in the gallery above. Read the synopsis for Us here: A mother (Lupita
Following the news that Jordan Peele’s upcoming Candyman reboot has cast Yahya Abdul-Mateen II in the lead role, THR has recently reported that the film is also currently in negotiations with Teyonah Parris. Abdul-Mateen is set to play a Chicago artist who becomes obsessed with the legend of the Candyman, and Parris will play his art
“The following presentation is derived from footage captured by the catastrophic reality TV pilot Extremely Haunted Hoarders,” reads text at the beginning of The Hoard, over a rapid – indeed, so rapid as to be near inscrutable – montage of monstrosity, mayhem and murder. It is not just a precise prelude of what is to
Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein’s film opens to the distorted strains of ice cream truck music, as seven-year-old Chloe (Lexy Kolker) peeks out at Mr Snowcone’s blue-and-pink vehicle parked in the suburban street below. Ice cream is such a simple, tantalising pleasure, yet Chloe’s dad Henry (Emile Hirsch) pulls Chloe back from the window
The story goes that when a foundling child suddenly appeared on their farm, decent, warm-hearted Jonathan and Martha Kent adopted him as their own under the name Clark Kent and raised him with their homespun rural values before sending him out into the world. This legend casts its shadow over The Witch: Part 1 –
Taking place (mostly) in an isolated petrol station on the night that the Danish football team is playing in the finals of the European Championship, Finale sets itself up as a familiar – indeed timeless – tale of predatory victimisation. The station owner’s daughter Agnes (Anne Bergfeld) and disgruntled employee Belinda (Karin Michelsen) are working
“She wants to be let out,” says a soldier, drawn, as if by a whispering siren call, to the wooden chest that his troop is transporting across the border to destroy. They are intercepted by another squadron, and the bloody skirmish that ensues – in which that first soldier acts as if possessed, and fights
This fourth feature from Ron Carlson (All American Christmas Carol, Tom Cool, Midgets Vs. Mascots) opens with a before-and-after sequence: a young woman buys peyote from Native American Bigfoot (Michael Horse) and his diminutive sidekick Firecracker (Danny Woodburn), with a warning of ‘grave consequences’ should their client disrupt the local fauna; and then the same
A faded, jumpy film reel from the 1970s, part of a correspondence course from the ‘Stockholm Institute for Magnetic Research’, claims to help the viewer deal with the modern age’s ‘duality of the self’. The method used, similar to – but not the same as – hypnosis, promises to allow subjects to reach their ‘full
Prepubescent Vivien (Sarah DaSilva) and Sophia (Lori Phun) reside on Level 10 of an authoritarian boarding school for girls, and dream of being chosen for adoption by a good family and seeing the sky for their first time. While helping Sophia pick up the jar of facial cream that she has dropped, Vivien commits a