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
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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
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
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 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
“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
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
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
The hunt has evolved in this new poster Shane Black’s The Predator By Poppy-Jay Palmer 20-07-18 1,015 Click here to see full size. You can read the synopsis for The Predator here: From the outer reaches of space to the small-town streets of suburbia, the hunt comes home in Shane Black’s explosive reinvention of the Predator series.
Following on from the thematic heavy-lifting of Black Panther and the death-a-thon of Infinity War, Marvel Studios needed something light to cleanse the palette of MCU fans. So along comes Ant-Man And The Wasp, the filmic equivalent of a lemon syllabub – all smooth action, frothy fun and sharp humour. It’s not the most memorable
The film will be a sequel to Shyamalan’s Unbreakable (2000) and Split (2016), and is set to see Bruce Willis, Samuel L Jackson and James McAvoy reprise their roles as David Dunn, Mr Glass and Kevin Wendell Crumb respectively. You can read the synopsis for Glass here: From Unbreakable, Bruce Willis returns as David Dunn as does Samuel L. Jackson as Elijah
“This is Johnny,” says local self-appointed gangster Shelton (Jonny Brugh), introducing his sister Kelly (Hetty Gaskell-Hahn) to one of his underling ‘boys’. “He’s bloody dynamic.” Orphaned John (Anton Tennet) really is dynamic. He may just be a small-time criminal in a small town – Thames, New Zealand, to be precise, where the biggest tourist attractions
It’s been a while since we heard anything about Legendary’s Dune reboot, so an update was definitely in order. This year’s update is that Call Me By Your Name star Timothee Chalamet is in talks for the lead role of Paul Atreides. Denis Villeneuve (Blade Runner 2049, Arrival, Sicario) is directing from a screenplay by veteran screenwriter Eric Roth
The first poster for Aquaman is the most majestic damn thing you’ve ever seen By Poppy-Jay Palmer 16-07-18 1,764 Click here to see full size. Try and tell us this isn’t the poster of an absolute hit. The first poster for Aquaman is probably the most majestic thing we’ve seen this year. Absolutely glorious. Does this
“I remember what it was like to be a boy in the summer,” one character says in the middle of Summer Of 84. “It’s hard to pass up an adventure.” Nostalgia is a powerful impulse, as seductive as that narrow yet wide-eyed view of the world which we all have as children, and to whose
Anya Taylor-Joy, George MacKay and Charlie Heaton star in horror mystery The Secret Of Marrowbone By Katherine McLaughlin 15-07-18 639 Released: Out now Certificate: 15 Director: Sergio G Sánchez Writer: Sergio G Sánchez Cast: George MacKay, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton, Mia Goth Distributor: Entertainment One If you like this, try… The Others Nicole Kidman stars
Compared to the likes of Finding Nemo, Up and more recently Coco, The Incredibles has always been one of Disney Pixar’s lighter, more fun outings. Incredibles 2 leans into that idea, and then some. When we meet the titular family again, they’re gearing up to face the Underminer, the antagonist who popped out from beneath
Everything you need to know about Sam (Anders Danielsen Lie) is carefully laid out in the prologue to The Night Eats The World (La nuit a dévoré le monde) – the feature debut of director Dominique Rocher which he co-wrote with Jérémie Guez, and Guilaume Lemans. Returning one night to the Parisian apartment of his
A batch of brand new images giving a first look at M Night Shyamalan’s Glass have arrived, courtesy of the good folks at EW. Check them out in the gallery above. The film will be a sequel to Shyamalan’s Unbreakable (2000) and Split (2016), and is set to see Bruce Willis, Samuel L Jackson and James McAvoy reprise their roles as
The Meg parodies Jaws in this wonderful new art poster By Poppy-Jay Palmer 13-07-18 2,634 Click here to see full size. 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
Michael Peña has visions about an alien invasion in this new trailer for Extinction By Poppy-Jay Palmer 12-07-18 2,767 Extinction is directed by Ben Young from a screenplay by Eric Heisserer. It stars Michael Peña, Lizzy Caplan, Mike Colter, Emma Booth, Israel Broussard, Tom Riley and Lilly Aspell. You can read the synopsis here: A
A first proper look at Zachary Levi’s Shazam! costume is here (beyond all those low quality set photos that have been hitting the internet), courtesy of Entertainment Weekly. Check it out: “I wanted to keep the shorter cape as a throwback to the original because that’s something that sets him apart from Superman or Batman,” director David
Beware the gummy bears in this new trailer for Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween By Poppy-Jay Palmer 12-07-18 9,082 There’s sadly no Jack Black as RL Stine in this new trailer for Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween, but there is a pack of giant gummy bears, so… There are also a couple of rather lovely posters to
Take a look at this exclusive new poster for Sicilian Ghost Story By Poppy-Jay Palmer 11-07-18 747 Click here to see full size. In anticipation of the release of Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza’s Sicilian Ghost Story on 3 August, we present you with this absolutely stunning new poster for the film. A gripping real-life story
We always hoped Billy Dee Williams would find himself back in the big screen Star Wars saga. Happily, it’s just been announced that the actor is returning for Star Wars: Episode IX to reprise his role as Lando Calrissian. His involvement had been rumoured this week, what with Williams cancelling an appearance at an upcoming sci-fi fan convention,
Someone isn’t who they say they are in this new trailer for The Forest Of Lost Souls By Poppy-Jay Palmer 10-07-18 1,656 Wild Eye Releasing has announced that Portuguese indie horror The Forest of Lost Souls will be hitting US cinemas on 5 August. It also released this new trailer, so check it out: And
Its name might conjure Walt Disney’s animated merger of high and low art, but Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival is in fact so named because of its twin focus on fictive genre and Eastern cinema – although, had the festival existed in 1940, Fantasia would almost certainly have been welcomed to it. If you love
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