Zach Snyder had willingly placed himself at the mercy of every comic book fan when he seated the throne for Superman vs Batman: Dawn of Justice. He was dead center in the most polarizing DC debate there ever was, sitting precariously beneath the weight of a very passionate fan base. For Snyder though, the mammoth…
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After winning the Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival this year, there have been more than a few people waiting for a glimpse of Andrea Arnold’s trans-America visual bildungsroman. The trailer has at last reached the Internet, and it’s exactly the emphatic and chaotic two and half minutes one would expect from Arnold. The story…
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The Mercy has been confirmed as the title of the latest work from Studiocanal, Blueprint Pictures and BBC Films and first images for the film are finally bracing the Internet. The film, having as many Academy Awards attached to it as the ceremony itself, will star Colin Firth, Rachel Weisz and is helmed by The Theory…
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With the DVD release of Dirty Grandpa, director Dan Mazer took a call from The Iris to give audiences a little idea about what could expect from an R-rated comedy starring screen royalty, Robert De Niro. The long time writing and production partner of Sascha Baron Cohen has been busy trying to push fresh comedy films…
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Actress Noomi Rapace will again join the screen as doctor Elizabeth Shaw, reprising her role for Ridley Scott’s imminent feature Alien: Covenant. After dipping in and out of the project as a lead to a cameo, it now appears Rapace will front the sequel to Scott’s 2012 Prometheus. Alongside Rapace, Michael Fassbender will also be…
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The latest Spider-Man reboot has made new additions to an already extensive cast list with new names Hannibal Buress and Abraham Attah. Becoming increasingly subject to memes, the recent Spider-Man casting has made it clear there will be a myriad of young talent in the franchise overhaul. Already casted lead Tom Holland (as seen in Captain…
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Zelos will be a breath of fresh air to Australian cinema. The upcoming Australian film to be helmed by new Australian face Jo-Anne Brechin and written by Claire Harris will be a female-led endeavor exploring the wreckful throes of contemporary romance. The Iris sent Fergus Halliday to get some insight on the films progression as it…
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The 2015 crowdfunded hit Kung Fury has finally got word of a sequel as creator David Sandberg posted an image this week of the sequel’s script wrapped by the eponymous hero’s red bandana. View this post on Instagram A post shared by David Sandberg (@laserunicorns) The English-language Swedish short film was written, directed and acted…
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“I think it’s time for somebody else,” were the words Sam Mendes used to end his five-year pairing with the spy franchise. “It was an incredible adventure, I loved every second of it,” he also added. Mendes was responsible for Skyfall and Spectre, both films receiving critical and box office success, with critics believing he had brought new depth to…
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Harry Potter star and former recipient of Martin Scorcese acclaim, Rupert Grint will star in a new comedy from Sky Atlantic, alongside Miami Vice’s Don Johnson and Shaun of the Dead’s Nick Frost. The TV series titles Sick Note will feature Grint as a compulsive liar, and will center on a lie that spirals out…
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Taking the stage at the MCM London Comic Con, Jesse Eisenberg confirmed that he would again assume the role of glabrous villain Lex Luthor in the upcoming Justice League film. With the production now underway, Eisenberg has stated that he’s just waiting on the call. “They just started filming Justice League, so I’m kind of…
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Last week, Jake ran through five of the best undiscovered gems the horror genre has to offer, this week he’s finishing that effort with five more underrated works of the genre that most audiences won’t have run up against before. Life After Beth (2014) For such a big cast, Life After Beth kind of slipped through…
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In an assault on horror, popular critic and academic Morris Dickstein wrote that the genre had become a “routinized way of playing with death, like going on the roller coaster”. It’s not impossible to see where his criticisms are founded, given the whole genre has been so formulated; mathematicians have actually developed a generic horror…
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A film this intrinsically Aussie must exist as an enigma to international audiences. Something very alien, and as I thought once before, about what those people distant from the Antipodes would have made of Crackerjack, I again think for Pawno, and wonder whether subtitles could comprehend or merely transcribe the dialogue of a film so…
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Aussie John Noble has some pretty prolific pop culture roles under his belt. Since his time as an All Saint, John has found himself the covetable intelligent, slightly wicked choice for Hollywood producers looking to cast someone with that versatility (it’s not by his choice he swears). The result has been a flourish of eloquent…
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The St Kilda Film Festival, now Australia’s longest running, publicly-owned short film festival, has today released the nominees for the festival’s title award, best short film. Prevailing against the country’s best 100 short films were Red Rover, Death in Bloom, Slingshot and The Orchestra. Other award categories and nominees were; Best Documentary: You Better Take…
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Siberian Colossus Stafan Kapicic has been building a career as an anonymous bad guy in American cinema. It wasn’t his language stopping him; the six-foot-four actor can speak fluently in as many as eight dialects. He has played roles as eclectic as comedy-stoner to romantic-heartbreak in international cinema. However, until his role in Deadpool, he…
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The currently in production Sherlock season four will welcome Toby Jones to their next series, in a non-specified villain role. The former Harry Potter and Captain America star will first meet Sherlock in the second episode of the upcoming fourth season. Writer and executive producer Steven Moffat has expressed his optimism, saying “Delighted to have…
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The DC Universe is growing, as Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment have announced that a Harley Quinn spinoff film is in development. Attached both as a lead and a producer, Margot Robbie will reprise her role from Suicide Squad alongside a team of other female DC characters including Batgirl and Birds of Prey. Currently the…
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Sydney’s annual Vivid Festival will return from the 27th of May to the 18th of June, this year hoping to collect it’s fourth consecutive Best Tourism Event award with an emphasis on light, music and ideas. The festival, probably best known for making Sydney look like Neo-Tokyo by shading our biggest landmarks in patterned lights,…
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The quinary to the Transformers series has finally got a title and some cast information, thanks to an ominous Instagram clip posted through the film’s social media channels. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Transformers (@transformersmovie) While The Last Knight seems a little vague an uninspired as far as titles go, the…
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Joe Hill’s comic book series Locke & Key has been given another shot at a TV series, after previously coming so close that a FOX-pilot actually screened during the San Diego Comic-Con 2011. The issues with the first project were in part unclear, but the consequent scrapping of the series may have been for the…
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Netflix has revealed they will be partnering with E4 for a new horror comedy series Crazy Face, a six-part series starring Susan Wokoma and Cara Theobold and from the creative mind of BAFTA award-winning Howard Overman. The series will revolve around an unlikely friendship between Amy and Raquel (Wokoma and Theobold) as they ‘attempt to…
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The third Volvo Scandinavian Film Festival to be presented by Palace cinema, plans to bring the best new films from Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland to Palace screens this July. Having in the past decade pierced the western cannon with gritty stories Let The Right One In and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet…
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NSW Deputy Premier and Minister for the Arts Troy Grant, besides festival director Nashen Moodley today announced the full program for the Sydney International Film Festival, declaring that the festival would present a staggering 244 films from 60 countries, including 25 World Premieres. This includes 139 Australian premieres (including 13 Australian premiere short films) and…
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The brothers behind box office powerhouse Captain America: Civil War, Joe and Anthony Russo, have announced they will return to TV on a new project being co-developed with Showtime. The Russo bros will produce for TV for the first time since their hit sitcoms Community and Arrested Development, and will work with comedian Moshe Kasher,…
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Syfy has given Superman prequel series Krypton the thumbs up (at least for the pilot). The series, initially reported in 2014, may have finally found a home, and while Syfy has only committed to a pilot thus far, the prospect of David S. Goyer (writer Dark Knight, Superman Dawn of Justice) producing adds some serious…
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Bad news for Wonder Woman fans – Gal Godot has had to postpone her upcoming appearance at Supanova Pop Culture Expo’s Sydney and Perth events due to filming commitments for the Justice League film. However, the expo has traded one legendary warrior for another with Aussie-actor-turned-Viking Travis Fimmel added to the lineup. With the premiere…
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The new comedy from the writing duo behind The Hangover has received its first trailer and it looks like that Jon Lucas and Scott Moore magic has been rekindled. Starring real life moms Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell and Christina Applegate, Bad Moms is about three mothers departing from the formal customs of work and PTA…
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Celebrating urban oeuvre and series release, Empire and Presto are encouraging Australians to submit their hip-hop pseudonym to Presto on Facebook for a chance to have their name painted by the center of Melbourne’s CBD. Graffiti artist Vanderlism will paint submitted names during an exhibition at the Empire shrine, on the corner of La Trobe…
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