Despite its incredibly generic title and direct-to-DVD status, No Escape is a surprisingly effective thriller elevated by its above-average cast and fuelled by its ability to maintain tension from start to finish. Director John Erik Dowdle is no stranger to lacing his films with palpable tension (the found-footage horror outing Quarantine and M. Night Shyamalan…
J.J. Abrams‘ latest mystery box, 10 Cloverfield Lane, will release this week and on the eve of this release, Bad Robot have let loose a final cryptic poster for the film, along with two more teasers. The first teaser is simply titled ‘Table’, check it out below. The other teaser, ‘Windows’, offers up a similarly enigmatic glimpse…
Offensive. Repulsive. Shocking. Unapologetic. These words are always associated with a film starring Sasha Baron Cohen as the lead. Films such as Borat, Bruno and The Dictator have brought levels of laughter due shock and wit, and with his latest film, Grimsby, it is no exception. If you hated any of those movies, punch out…
The snowball of new Potter related content continues through 2016 with the beginning of a four part, History of Magic in North America ‘textbook’. Serving as a prologue to the anticipated Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them the new four part series will expand the ever-growing world of magic across the Atlantic sea and…
The Golden Age Cinema and Bar will be celebrating St. Patrick’s Day this March with the screening of Oscar nominated film Brooklyn and then following through the week with a selection of essential Brooklyn-based films. Taking us from the love spangled Brooklyn 50’s, we see Woody Allen’s Oscar winning Annie Hall and then Spike Lee’s…
The six-part series, based on the Wolf Creek films, received a new teaser trailer today, giving us a first look at the series’ female lead. The Stan Original Series sees Eve (Lucy Fry) set out on a quest for revenge against the franchise’s infamous serial killer Mick Taylor (John Jarratt) after her family is murdered….
The popular New York film festival, Tribeca, has added some important films to its roster this year. In it’s 15th anniversary, the film festival founded by Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal will see the premiere of 43 never before seen films. One of the most touted projects associated with the festival is Elvis and…
The 2016 SXSW Film Festival kicks off on Friday and as always there are dozens upon dozens of amazing films to choose from. Here are our picks: 8 films and 1 Episodic Premiere that might help you make your selections for this year’s anticipated event… Keanu Key and Peele’s first big screen adventure looks ridiculous….
Dexter Fletcher‘s Eddie The Eagle, starring Hugh Jackman and Taron Egerton, will premiere for Australian audiences this March with Jackman set to walk the red carpet. Two screenings are currently listed with Melbourne audiences able to see Jackman and the film on the 29th of March at 6PM at Village Cinemas Crown and Sydney getting a screening…
There are plenty of reasons to be skeptical about the upcoming Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice: a overwhelmingly dark and self-serious tone to the lingering sensation that DC might be trying to do a little bit much with the film a little too fast. However, there are also a lot of reasons to be excited: from…
Better Call Saul is unique among the cable-drama landscape in that it doesn’t go for the big dramatic stakes. When it comes to Vince Gilligan‘s follow-up/prequel to Breaking Bad, the smaller and more personal the stakes, the better. If the first four episodes of the show’s second season are any indication, Gilligan, Peter Gould, Bob Odenkirk and…
Spectre is the 24th James Bond film, 52 years into a franchise that has defined and redefined espionage thrillers, showing absolutely no signs of stopping both financially and creatively after Skyfall’s overwhelming success in 2012. Sure Daniel Craig’s iteration of Bond has given us some dull moments (see Quantum of Solace), but the 47 year…
We can all relax. Oscar-winning Whiplash J.K Simmons is set to play Commissioner Gordon in Zack Snyder’s Justice League. Simmons joins the film’s superpowered cast, including Batman (Ben Affleck) Superman (Henry Cavill) Wonder Woman (Gal Godot) Aquaman (Jason Momoa) The Flash (Ezra Miller) and Cyborg (Ray Fisher). Justice League: Part One will start shooting in mid-April with…
The infamous slayings of London’s Ripper Street are set to come to an end with Amazon confirming that the fifth season of the BAFTA award-winning crime series will be its last. Filming on the final season has begun in Dublin with Joseph Mawrie (In the Heart of the Sea) returning as Detective Jedediah Shine alongside the rest of the series regular…
Annabel Wallis, known for her work in Peaky Blinders and horror flick Annabelle, is set to play an Archaeologist in Universal’s upcoming reboot of The Mummy. She joins Sofia Boutella and Tom Cruise with Alex Kurtzman set to direct. Castings aside, little is known about the film – though it is expected to tie into Universal’s shared universe of monster movies and be tonally-different…
In the new documentary The Smart Studios Story, making its world premiere next week at SXSW in Austin Texas, Director Wendy Schneider takes a look back at the legacy of the legendary Madison, Wisconsin recording studio founded by Butch Vig and Steve Marker: Smart Studios. We caught up with Wendy ahead of the premiere to find out…
Australia’s most popular video on demand service is now available to owners of 4th generation Apple TVs. According to ABC Head of TV Strategy and Digital Products, Rebecca Heap, “we’ve had strong audience demand for iview on the new Apple TV and have built an experience that makes it easier than ever to explore and watch the ABC’s…
After a number of behind-the-scenes stills and a teaser or two, the full trailer for the upcoming sixth season of HBO’s Game of Thrones is here. As far as trailers go, it’s one of their best. With the series set to overtake the George R. R. Martin‘s books this season, there are a lot of little details…
Last year, the breathtaking Australian film The Daughter made its debut at the Sydney Film Festival, and later this month, the film is finally seeing the wide release it deserves (read our interviewer’s four and a half star review of the film HERE). The film is based on Director Simon Stone’s adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s The Wild…
“In the beginning … the angel Lucifer was cast out of Heaven and condemned to rule Hell for all eternity. Until he decided to take a vacation….” That’s the opening title cards for the new Fox series Lucifer, a clever show that combines the drama procedural with elements of comedy, psychology and a dash of…
Acclaimed Japanese actor, Beat Takeshi Kitano has joined the cast of the upcoming Ghost in the Shell adaptation. Kitano joins Scarlett Johansson and director, Rupert Sanders in the live-action version of the popular anime series. Kitano will play Daisuke Aramaki, the founder and leader of the elite unit Section 9 tasked with protecting the world from the…
Long running video game series Thief is set to receive a movie adaptation courtesy of Straight Up Films, Roy Lee and Adrian Askarieh and screenplay writers Adam Mason and Simon Boyes. Thief tells the story of Garret, who is inducted by a secret society and tasked with putting his very unique set of skills into practice. The…
When Sony and Marvel reached an agreement that allowed Spider-man to appear in the MCU, plans for a Venom movie were scrapped. Now the project is back on track with Avi Arad and Matt Tolmach producing and Dante Harper writing the script. Venom won’t be part of the deal that saw Spidey get a spot in the…
That ominous feeling is there all throughout “Not Tomorrow Yet” for a reason, as a cliffhanger ending ramps up the tension for next week and prepares for potential heartbreak as The Walking Dead continue a strong season 6. It’s been a big past couple of episodes on The Walking Dead, first with that giant, world-expanding…
Tim Burton‘s film adaption of bestselling book Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is set to hit theaters in September and distributor Fox have released a trio of stills for the film. According to Burton, he was “immediately intrigued by the haunting and mysterious pictures in Ransom Rigg‘s novel and knew I wanted to tell the…
Information Security experts warn that a new OS X Ransomware has targeted Apple Mac users with malicious software that will hijack their computer and demand that a payment is made for devices to be unlocked.
It’s early days on this news but it looks like Arrow star Stephen Amell has confirmed that he’ll be making his first trip to Australia as part of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows press tour. Amell revealed the trip, along with the cancellation of his upcoming appearance at the Birmingham-based City of Heroes…
There are plenty of reasons to be excited about the upcoming Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice: Ben Affleck‘s more comic-inspired take on The Dark Knight, the bold premise, the rapid expansion of the shared canvas upon which DC’s superhero films are set to take place. However, there are also a lot of reasons to be concerned….
Less than a day after news broke that The Conjuring 2 screenwriter Eric Heisserer had joining the adaption of Neil Gaiman‘s long running comic series, news has broken that Joseph Gordon-Levitt is parting ways with the film. Gordon-Levitt and screenwriter David Goyer were regarded as the major creative figures behind recent efforts to free the film from ‘development-hell’ and move…
The Michael Fassbender-fronted adaption of Ubisoft’s historical open-world video game series isn’t due till December but 20th Century Fox and New Regency have already working towards releasing a sequel, The Tracking Board reports. It’s hard to know what to expect from Assassins Creed. Though we’ve gotten a few stills here and there from the film, no official trailers have yet…
