Earlier this week, it was announced that Saturday Night Live star Alec Baldwin was set to star in Joker, an upcoming origin movie centred around Batman’s make-upped and maniacal nemesis. But now, the actor has revealed that he has dropped out of the project. Talking to USA Today, Baldwin claimed that scheduling issues were to blame
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Amazon Studios has revealed the first clip for upcoming supernatural horror Suspiria and having watched it, all we can think about it whether Michael Jackson really was onto something when he uttered these famous lyrics: “Blame it on the boogie!” The two-minute footage sees artistic director Madame Blanc (Tilda Swinton) instructing her dance class to work
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Climax opens near its end, with a god’s-eye aerial view of virgin snow being disturbed by the staggering traversal – and collapse – of a young, blood-stained woman dressed in a tank top. Text appears on screen which reads, “To our creators who are no longer with us,” framing the full listed credits which immediately
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“This is the one you’ve been waiting for…”, goes the first line heard in Bodied, reflecting the precise thoughts of those of us who have been waiting six long years since Joseph Kahn’s postmodern meta slasher Detention knocked us sideways  – or 13 years for those lost folk who missed Detention but really loved the
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When, in John Landis’ The Blues Brothers, Jake and Eliot roll up at Bob’s Country Bunker claiming to be booked artists the Good Ol’ Boys, half the joke is the absurdity of seeing an urban rhythm and blues band having to impersonate a country-and-western outfit. Though more horror than comedy, Lasso, the feature debut of
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At the beginning of CTRL, Christian Lex (Saabeah Theos) and her boyfriend Dru (Hainsley Lloyd Bennett) are heading to the luxurious fifth-storey apartment of Lex’s brother Leo (Julian Mack), a reclusive computer geek with a strong streak of misanthropy, to celebrate his birthday. As the couple ascends, floor by floor, we hear Leo reciting (in
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Every horror fan knows that you have to follow the rules of the game if you want to survive, but the twisted “fun” in writer-director Mitzi Peirone’s stylized debut feature goes beyond the usual traps and twists. Instead, it’s a device to send the audience along with its leads into a fairy-tale dark trip. When
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With Aislinn Clarke’s The Devil’s Doorway, Paul Hyett’s Heretiks and Corin Hardy’s The Nun all enjoying their premières in rapid succession, 2018 would appear to be the year that sees nunsploitation returning with a vengeance. Not that St Agatha, the latest from genre director Darren Lynn Bousman (Abattoir, Repo! The Genetic Opera, the first three Saw
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Chloe Grace Moretz, Mia Goth and more star in these new Suspiria character posters By Poppy-Jay Palmer 24-08-18 299 You can read the synopsis for Suspiria here: Suspiria is set in 1977 Berlin and follows a young American woman who joins a prestigious dance company. She arrives just as one of the members mysteriously disappears. As her stock
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Hans Zimmer is returning to the DCEU to score Wonder Woman 1984 By Poppy-Jay Palmer 23-08-18 871 The composer behind Wonder Woman’s badass Batman V Superman guitar motif has got the Amazon covered again: Hans Zimmer is returning to the DCEU to compose Wonder Woman 1984. He will be taking over from Rupert Gregson-Williams, who wrote the score for
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Pizza and gateways to hell don’t mix will in the new trailer for comedy horror Slice By Poppy-Jay Palmer 22-08-18 1,287 The first full trailer for A24’s pizza-obsessed comedy horror Slice has landed, and it actually looks like it could be pretty great. Check it out and see for yourself:  Read the synopsis for Slice here: In the
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This new poster for Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria is a little uninspired By Poppy-Jay Palmer 21-08-18 311 Click here to see full size. You can read the synopsis for Suspiria here: Suspiria is set in 1977 Berlin and follows a young American woman who joins a prestigious dance company. She arrives just as one of the members mysteriously disappears.
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With The CW playing host to four Arrowverse series and Netflix currently owning six separate Marvel outings, there’s certainly no shortage of superhero television shows on the small screen. Fortunately, Krypton promises to be unlike the comic book adaptations you’ve seen before. Set decades before Superman’s titular home planet is infamously destroyed, it follows the
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