Synopsis – Four friends get trapped in a sadistic game show, forced to outwit a twisted serial killer while racing against time. Every move brings them closer to freedom or a gruesome fate. Directed – DW Medoff Starring – Jackie Earle Haley, Ella-Rae Smith, Jamie Flatters Check out the trailer: Continue reading ‘Your Host’ Trailer Sees Jackie Earle Haley Play a Twisted Serial Killer!! Check It Out!!
Synopsis – Mike, a down-to-earth construction worker from Jersey, is quickly thrust into the world of super spies and secret agents when his high school ex-girlfriend Roxanne recruits him on a high-stakes US intelligence mission. My Take – As a movie star, Mark Wahlberg is going through a very curious career phase for the past few years. While some of his choices like Joe Bell (2020), … Continue reading The Union (2024) Review!!
Synopsis – Professional poker player Andy and his girlfriend Chloe are involved in a crazy 24 hours after a home poker game is robbed. Andy finds up playing the largest poker game of his life as both of their lives are in danger. Directed – Luc Walpoth Starring – Emile Hirsch, David Keith, India Eisley Check out the trailer: Continue reading ‘Dead Money’ Trailer Finds Emile Hirsch, India Eisley On the Run!! Check It Out!!
Synopsis – Mike, a down-to-earth construction worker from Jersey, is quickly thrust into the world of super spies and secret agents when his high school ex-girlfriend Roxanne recruits him on a high-stakes US intelligence mission. Directed – Julian Farino Starring – Mark Wahlberg, Halle Berry, J.K. Simmons Check out the trailer: Continue reading ‘The Union’ Trailer Sees Halle Berry, Mark Wahlberg Reunite for a Secret Mission!! Check It Out!!
Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry are ready to strike in the first look at The Union. The duo will play blue-collar spies in the upcoming Netflix action comedy, which will premiere on the streamer on August 16. Entertainment Weekly has the first images from the film, which depict Wahlberg and Berry as two decidedly unglamorous secret agents, as well as their boss, played by J.K. … Continue reading ‘The Union’: New Image Sees Mark Wahlberg, Halle Berry Play Spies!! Check It Out!!
Synopsis – In The Retirement Plan, when Ashley (Ashley Greene) and her young daughter Sarah (Thalia Campbell) get caught up in a criminal enterprise that puts their lives at risk, she turns to the only person who can help – her estranged father Matt (Nicolas Cage), currently living the life of a retired beach bum in the Cayman Islands. Their reunion is fleeting as they are … Continue reading ‘The Retirement Plan’ Trailer Sees Nicolas Cage’s Beach Bum Fighting Off Assassins!! Check It Out!!
It’s time for Ben Affleck to play a detective with nothing to lose, as the release date for Robert Rodriguez‘s Hypnotic quickly approaches theaters. This morning, ScreenRant has revealed the final poster for the release. In the upcoming thriller, Affleck plays Daniel Rourke and, after the character’s daughter is kidnapped, his quest to get her back continues. When the protagonist dives deeper into the world … Continue reading ‘Hypnotic’: Robert Rodriguez’s Hitchcock-ian Thriller Gets a New Poster!! Check It Out!!
Hot on the heels of his latest venture into directing and acting in the Michael Jordan-centered story, Air, Ben Affleck is diving back into thrillers for his next project, Hypnotic. A genre he’s more than comfortable in, we love seeing a stressed-out Affleck race against time to solve a mystery while he suffers a psychological breakdown. In a new poster released exclusively by Screenrant, we … Continue reading ‘Hypnotic’: First Poster Sees Ben Affleck Racing Through Dominos!! Check It Out!!
Synopsis – A detective investigates a mystery involving his missing daughter and a secret government program. Directed – Robert Rodriguez Starring – Ben Affleck, William Fichtner, Alice Braga Check out the trailer: Continue reading ‘Hypnotic’ Trailer Sees Ben Affleck’s Detective Searching for His Missing Daughter!! Check It Out!!
Following its surprise screening at the SXSW Festival, where a “work-in-progress” cut of the film was shown, the new Robert Rodriguez film Hypnotic has secured a theatrical release date in the United States, according to a report by Deadline. The film, which will star Ben Affleck, was given a warm reception when it was screened on Sunday night at the festival and provided a welcome … Continue reading ‘Hypnotic’: Robert Rodriguez’s Ben Affleck Starrer Sets May 12 as Release Date!!
We now have our first look at Hypnotic, the upcoming thriller from acclaimed director Robert Rodriguez. An exclusive image from the film has been revealed by Variety, which shows topliner Ben Affleck in action. While details on the film’s plot remain slim, a logline for Hypnotic says that Affleck will play a detective who is investigating a series of inexplicable crimes while searching for his … Continue reading ‘Hypnotic’: First Image Teases Ben Affleck in Robert Rodriguez’s New Thriller!! Check It Out!!
Synopsis – Set in North Carolina’s Appalachian Mountains, eighteen-year-old Jacob McNeely is torn between appeasing his meth-dealing kingpin father and leaving the mountains forever with the girl he loves. Directed – Ben Young Starring – Robin Wright, Billy Bob Thornton, Hopper Penn Check out the trailer: Continue reading ‘Devil’s Peak’ Trailer Sees a Young Man Attempting to Escape His Family’s Dark Legacy!! Check It Out!!
Synopsis – Unknown Directed – David Lowery Starring – Jackie Earl Haley, Sylvia Hoeks Check out the trailer: Sneak peak at David Lowery's new short film, "Oak Thorn & The Old Rose of Love," available exclusively on The Green Knight Collector's Edition Blu-ray ⟶ https://t.co/PGhYIs4CZ0 pic.twitter.com/6gaKDuu1Zf — A24 (@A24) November 21, 2022 Continue reading ‘Oak Thorn and The Old Rose of Love’ Teaser Teases David Lowery’s Secret Short Film!! Check It Out!!
Synopsis – Elmer Elevator searches for a captive Dragon on Wild Island and finds much more than he could ever have anticipated. Directed – Nora Twomey Starring (voices of) – Judy Greer, Leighton Meester, Jacob Tremblay Check out the trailer: Continue reading ‘My Father’s Dragon’ Teases Netflix and Cartoon Saloon’s Upcoming Animated Feature!! Check It Out!!
Today, Netflix and Cartoon Saloon unveiled My Father’s Dragon, a new animated feature directed by Nora Twomey. The film will adapt the Newbery Medal-awarded children’s book of the same name, written by Ruth Stiles Gannett and illustrated by her stepmother, Ruth Chrisman Gannett. The first look image at My Father’s Dragon teases the fantastic encounter between a young boy and a scaly mystical creature. Gannett’s … Continue reading ‘My Father’s Dragon’: First Image Teases Netflix and Cartoon Saloon’s Upcoming Animated Feature!! Check It Out!!
Synopsis – Ace telemarketer Kasey (Lamorne Morris) is in a close sales contest with newbie employee, Barry (Woody McClain), and must score a big sale by midnight or he’ll lose the largest commission to date. Out of desperation, Kasey waits until everyone leaves the office and finds the Do Not Call list. He thinks he’s found the perfect mark, but instead finds himself held hostage … Continue reading ‘Death of a Telemarketer’: Upcoming Comedy Gets a New Clip!! Check It Out!!
Synopsis – Ace telemarketer Kasey (Lamorne Morris) is in a close sales contest with newbie employee, Barry (Woody McClain), and must score a big sale by midnight or he’ll lose the largest commission to date. Out of desperation, Kasey waits until everyone leaves the office and finds the Do Not Call list. He thinks he’s found the perfect mark, but instead finds himself held hostage … Continue reading ‘Death of a Telemarketer’ Trailer Sees a Cold Call Gone Very Wrong!! Check It Out!!
Oscar winner Nicolas Cage (Con Air), Ron Perlman (Hellboy), Ashley Greene (Twilight), Oscar nominee Jackie Earle Haley (Lincoln), Joel David Moore (Avatar) and Grace Byers (Empire) are among cast set to star in action movie The Retirement Plan, which gets underway on Friday in the Cayman Islands. Also starring are Ernie Hudson (Ghostbusters), NBA star turned actor Rick Fox (Shameless), Emmy winner Lynn Whitfield (Madea’s … Continue reading ‘The Retirement Plan’: Action Flicks Sets Casts Including Nicolas Cage, Ron Perlman, Ashley Greene, Among Others!!
Fans of The Tick received some bad news last month when Amazon announced that it had cancelled the superhero comedy series after two well-received seasons, although creator Ben Edlund did offer a lifelong by stating that the producers were actively searching for a new home for the show. Well, sadly it appears that those efforts have been unsuccessful, as Edlund has now provided the following … Continue reading ‘The Tick’ Fails to Find New Home Following Cancellation!!!
The Dark Tower movie adaptation came and went in the summer of 2017 without much fanfare, an anemic box office tally, and a thorough drubbing by audiences and critics alike; not exactly the start you want for a franchise built on the bones of Stephen King‘s epic fantasy series. So what went wrong? A lot, in my opinion, but the project was wrong-footed from the … Continue reading ‘The Dark Tower’: Ron Howard Admits Mistakes in the Film Adaptation!!!
The Tick creator Ben Edlund has taken to Twitter to announce that Amazon has opted against a renewal for The Tick, cancelling the latest incarnation of the superhero comedy character after two seasons on the streaming service. “I’m sorry to say Amazon has chosen not to proceed with The Tick,” wrote Edlund. “I’m not sorry to say I love this show, its cast, its story, … Continue reading ‘The Tick’ Cancelled by Amazon after Two Seasons!!!
It may not quite have set the North American box office alight, but it looks like the international markets may save director Robert Rodriguez and producer James Cameron’s Alita: Battle Angel from all of the early predictions of doom and gloom. The manga adaptation opened in China this weekend, where it secured 20th Century Fox its biggest ever opening in the Middle Kingdom with $64.8 … Continue reading ‘Alita: Battle Angel’ Delivers Record Opening at the China BO!!
Synopsis – A deactivated female cyborg is revived, but cannot remember anything of her past life and goes on a quest to find out who she is. My Take – Looking at the ever growing popularity of anime and manga around the world, for years Hollywood studios have been trying to cash in on their demand by attempting to adapt various source materials into live … Continue reading Alita: Battle Angel (2019) Review!!!
Despite predictions of doom and gloom – with some analysts suggesting that Fox could be looking at a loss as high as $200 million – Robert Rodriguez and James Cameron’s manga adaptation Alita: Battle Angel has got off to a solid start at the international box office with $32 million from just 11 markets. Deadline reports that Fox executives are very pleased with the film’s … Continue reading ‘Alita: Battle Angel’ Takes a Solid Start at the International BO!!
Well, this is a position James Cameron hasn’t found himself in too often, but according to The Wrap, things aren’t looking good for his latest project, the Robert Rodriguez-directed Alita: Battle Angel, with the site reporting that studio 20th Century Fox could end up losing up to $200 million on the movie. The manga adaptation, which Cameron has been planning since the early 2000s (he … Continue reading ‘Alita: Battle Angel’: Fox Could Lose Around $200 million!!
Synopsis – An action-packed story of one young woman’s journey to discover the truth of who she is and her fight to change the world. Directed – Robert Rodriguez Starring – Jennifer Connelly, Eiza González, Rosa Salazar Check out the trailer: Continue reading ‘Alita: Battle Angel’: James Cameron Introduces a New International Trailer!! Check It Out!!!
20th Century Fox has released the first clip from Robert Rodriguez’s upcoming manga adaptation Alita: Battle Angel which sees Rosa Salazar and Christoph Waltz’s characters ambushed in an alleyway by a trio of cyborg assassins; watch it here: Visionary filmmakers James Cameron (AVATAR) and Robert Rodriguez (SIN CITY) create a groundbreaking new heroine in ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL, an action-packed story of hope, love and empowerment. Set … Continue reading ‘Alita: Battle Angel’: New Clip Sees Rosa Salazar and Christoph Waltz Ambushed By Cyborg Assassins!! Check It Out!!
Synopsis – The rise of the Guadalajara Cartel as an American DEA agent learns the danger of targeting narcos in Mexico. Episodes – S01E01 to S01e10 My Take – Back in 2015 when Netflix introduced us to Narcos, a show documenting the rise and fall of Colombian drug lord and narco-terrorist, Pablo Escobar in dramatic form, there was nothing like it, hereby taking the world … Continue reading Narcos: Mexico (2018) Season 1 Review!!
Synopsis – An action-packed story of one young woman’s journey to discover the truth of who she is and her fight to change the world. Directed – Robert Rodriguez Starring – Jennifer Connelly, Eiza González, Rosa Salazar Check out the trailer: Continue reading ‘Alita: Battle Angel’: New Trailer Further Reveals The James Cameron Produced Adaption!! Check It Out!!
It looks like we’re going to have to wait a little longer to see producer James Cameron and director Robert Rodriguez’s Alita: Battle Angel, as 20th Century Fox has pushed back the release of the manga adaptation. Alita was originally set to open on July 20th of this year, before being pushed back to December 21st. However, Fox will now open the movie on February … Continue reading ‘Alita: Battle Angel’ Release Pushed To 2019!!!
Synopsis – An action-packed story of one young woman’s journey to discover the truth of who she is and her fight to change the world. Directed – Robert Rodriguez Starring – Jennifer Connelly, Eiza González, Rosa Salazar Check out the trailer: Continue reading ‘Alita: Battle Angel’: New Trailer Offers Another Look at the Live-Action Manga Adaptation!!! Check It Out!!
Don’t put away your blue adult onesie with deedlybops just yet, friends! The Tick will be back for another round of adventures now that Amazon has wisely ordered a Season 2 of the satirical superhero series. Creator Ben Edlund is back along with leads Peter Serafinowicz as The Tick and Griffin Newman as Arthur, with additional casting to be announced. From Amazon Studios and Sony Pictures Television, the second season of The … Continue reading ‘The Tick’ Season 2 Ordered by Amazon Ahead of Season 1’s Return This February!!!
If you’re a fan of The Tick from either the comics, the cartoon, or the live-action TV shows, you’re going to want to skip right ahead to this new trailer. It heralds the February 2018 return of the super-silly superhero show to Amazon and reveals that not only The Tick and Arthur will be teaming up to combat evil this time around, but they’ll be joined by a … Continue reading ‘The Tick’: The Gang Suits Up for Their 2018 Return in a New Trailer!! Check It Out!!
Synopsis – An action-packed story of one young woman’s journey to discover the truth of who she is and her fight to change the world. Directed – Robert Rodriguez Starring – Jennifer Connelly, Eiza González, Rosa Salazar Check out the trailer: Continue reading First ‘Alita: Battle Angel’ Trailer Reveals Robert Rodriguez’s Crazy Sci-Fi Adaptation!!! Check It Out!!
If you’re not caught up on Amazon’s excellent live-action series adaptation of The Tick, you have a few months to rectify that oversight because Season 1 is returning early next year. A new trailer released today reveals both the return date for the superhero show and a glimpse at the action that awaits us. Spoilers ahead for anyone who isn’t finished watching the first few episodes of Season … Continue reading ‘The Tick’ Trailer Heralds the Return of the Big Blue Superhero!!!! Check It Out!!
Synopsis – The last Gunslinger, Roland Deschain, has been locked in an eternal battle with Walter O’Dim, also known as the Man in Black, determined to prevent him from toppling the Dark Tower, which holds the universe together. With the fate of the worlds at stake, good and evil will collide in the ultimate battle as only Roland can defend the Tower from the Man … Continue reading The Dark Tower (2017) Review!!!
Over the course of 30 years from 1982 to 2012, Stephen King churned out 8 books to tell the complete story of his epic saga, The Dark Tower. Now that the tale is getting the feature film treatment from director Nikolaj Arcel, fans were understandably hoping to see a deep dive into the mythology that makes the conflict between The Gunslinger (Idris Elba) and The Man in Black … Continue reading ‘The Dark Tower’ Clocks in at a Brisk 95 Minutes!!
At last, The Tick is here! Last August, Amazon included The Tick as part of its pilot season (its randomly occurring pilot season, I should note), where Amazon Prime members can vote on which pilots they like or don’t, determining which get made into series. Some things get green lighted regardless, like Jill Soloway‘s I Love Dick, which didn’t get a great viewer response to its … Continue reading ‘The Tick’: Charming First Trailer Promises Adventure and Blood!! Check It Out!!
Synopsis – The Gunslinger, Roland Deschain, roams an Old West-like landscape where “the world has moved on” in pursuit of the man in black. Also searching for the fabled Dark Tower, in the hopes that reaching it will preserve his dying world. Directed – Nikolaj Arcel Starring – Matthew McConaughey, Katheryn Winnick, Idris Elba Check out the trailer: Continue reading New ‘The Dark Tower’ International Trailer Is the Film’s Best Trailer Yet!! Check It Out!!
A trio of new TV spots for The Dark Tower have made their way online and they’re … fine. They’re basically just easily consumed snippets from the previously released trailer for Nikolaj Arcel‘s highly anticipated adaptation of Stephen King‘s magnum opus. That trailer did a good job of reassuring fans of the books that the spirit and some details of the story were being honored while also selling … Continue reading ‘The Dark Tower’ TV Spots Are Not Doing the Movie Any Favors!!! Check It Out!!
Collider’s Steve Weintraub is at the Licensing Expo in Las Vegas and managed to snap photos of promo posters for The Predator and Alita: Battle Angel. For those who don’t know, licensing expo is where vendors can get a sense of the upcoming movies studios have on display even if those movies don’t have official titles or production artwork yet. They’re not really meant for … Continue reading New Poster for ‘The Predator’ and First Poster for ‘Alita: Battle Angel’ Released!! Check It Out!!
Synopsis – The Gunslinger, Roland Deschain, roams an Old West-like landscape where “the world has moved on” in pursuit of the man in black. Also searching for the fabled Dark Tower, in the hopes that reaching it will preserve his dying world. Directed – Nikolaj Arcel Starring – Matthew McConaughey, Katheryn Winnick, Idris Elba Check out the trailer: Continue reading ‘The Dark Tower’ Trailer Teasers Set the Gunslinger against the Man in Black!!! Check It Out!!!
Condolences to fans of The Dark Tower. You’re going to have to wait just a little bit longer for that movie adaptation you’ve already waited decades for. Columbia is delaying the release date for the Stephen King adaptation once again, but this time it’s just moving a bit down the road to August 4. The studio has swapped The Dark Tower with The Emoji Movie, which will … Continue reading ‘The Dark Tower’ Release Date Delayed Again!!!
Idris Elba has been waiting for a big starring role to secure his leading-man status for awhile now. He’s a commanding performer in movies like Guillermo Del Toro‘s Pacific Rim and Beasts of No Nation, and his work on television in both Luther and The Wire (as well as the upcoming Guerrilla) cemented his sterling reputation on the small screen. The big screen, however, has … Continue reading First ‘The Dark Tower’ Poster Finds Idris Elba’s World Turned Upside Down!!! Check It Out!!
Synopsis – Nat Turner, a literate slave and preacher in the antebellum South, orchestrates an uprising. My Take – Slavery is a Global issue of many major international countries, but according to history only one county’s existence and wealth is owed entirely to slavery i.e. America. While this Nate Parker directed film may not present a drastically new perspective of slavery that was seen in … Continue reading The Birth of a Nation (2016) Review!!!
The new release date is July 28th. There was a bit of a marketing deluge for The Dark Tower back in July when we got the first images from the movie along with a bunch of details about the plot. However, Sony has been fairly quiet on the film since then. When interviewed Sony Pictures chairman Tom Rothman last month, Rothman said we should expect … Continue reading ‘The Dark Tower’ Delayed to Summer 2017!!
The most-watched pilot season ever for Amazon Studios has resulted in the greenlighting of three series: The Tick starring Peter Serafinowicz and Griffin Newman, Jean-Claude Van Johnson starring the one and only Jean-Claude Van Damme, and I Love Dick starring Kevin Bacon and Kathryn Hahn. All three new original series will premiere in 2017 for Amazon Prime members across available territories. Personally, I don’t know if I’m more excited to see The Tick get another shot on the small screen … Continue reading Amazon Studios Greenlights ‘The Tick’, ‘Jean-Claude Van Johnson’, and ‘I Love Dick’!!
The onslaught of The Dark Tower movie coverage continues. Over the past few days, our first official looks at Idris Elba’s protagonist Roland Deschain and Matthew McConaughey’s villainous Randall Flagg have arrived along with a slew of information about the long-awaited film adaptation of Stephen King’s beloved book series. Ron Howard and Brian Grazer tried for years to get a feature film adaptation of The Dark Tower off the ground, but the source material proved so unwieldy that the only way … Continue reading More ‘Dark Tower’ Images Feature Idris Elba Traversing the World(s)!! Check Them Out!!
Writer-director Nikolaj Arcel has some tough challenges ahead of him as far as the adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series is concerned. Not only does he have to bring the books to life in a way that’s both satisfactory and satisfying to the rabid fanbase (and the franchise’s meticulous author), it has to remain marketable for general audiences who are coming into this massive property blind. Unless both of those … Continue reading ‘The Dark Tower’ Movie Is Actually a Sequel!!
The feature film adaptation of The Dark Tower is finally filming, and while we got a look at Idris Elba’s protagonist The Gunslinger a few weeks ago, now it’s Matthew McConaughey’s turn to shine. The Oscar-winning Dallas Buyers Club actor plays the villain in the Stephen King adaptation, The Man in Black, and boy does he look the part. There’s a modernity to the look seen here that’s a bit surprising, but with set … Continue reading New ‘The Dark Tower’ Set Photos Reveal Matthew McConaughey’s Man in Black!!
