Ken Loach's Irish drama gets the once-over Church and community clash in Ken Loach’s period drama Jimmy's Hall . Set in '20s and '30s Ireland, it stars a charismatic Barry Ward as real-life Irish communist leader Jimmy Gralton. We first meet Jimmy as the returning local hero, back from a decade’s exile in the States and enjoying modest celebrity status in his small town, what with his...
Can Xavier Dolan become the d'Or daddy? In the space of five years and five films, Xavier Dolan has become the biggest overnight success story on the festival circuit in recent memory. That his latest film is in Competition this year is an astonishing enough achievement, that he has seen his work slotted in alongside the likes of Mike Leigh, Jean-Luc Godard and David Cronenberg is almost unbelievable,...
This past weekend, Million Dollar Arm opened with a disappointing $10.5 million in box-office receipts, despite playing on 3,019 screens. It's just the latest in a sea of rather underwhelming results for movies headed by TV stars. Jon Hamm, a frequent award-contender for his television work on Mad Men. hasn't been able to break out in film, even though he has the the sort of star power...
Uniting the worlds and casts of the first three X-Men movies and the prequel X-Men: First Class, here comes X-Men: Days Of Future Past. When genocidal robot sentinels bring the mutant race to the brink of extinction, Professor X (Patrick Stewart) and his team work together to send Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) back to 1973, where he must change the past to prevent this horrendous future. Our theatrical...
Would we care quite as much for this weekend’s spectacular X-Men: Days of Future Past if Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence and the younger actors cast in X-Men: First Class failed in creating an origin universe for the mighty Marvel mutants? Probably not. Because the cast (and director Matthew Vaughn) created a vibrant, sympathetic and exciting X-Men universe in that prequel,...
What the Heck? Eden Sher announced on Twitter this week that she took a pretty sizable meeting with Marvel yesterday afternoon. Of course, the TV star, known for playing the adorably optimistic Sue Heck in ABC's The Middle, offered no details as to why she was there. But from the sound of it, she was there for a while and there were a lot of issues. Went to marvel offices at noon for a "15 minute...
The rivalry between Marvel and DC runs deep, and has for decades. So when a creative voice associated with one party comments on record about a character in the other company’s stable, you know that their words are going to be picked over and analyzed by both fervent fan bases… particularly when the comments can be interpreted with sexist and borderline misogynistic undertones. David...
A few days ago, there was speculation that Alfonso Cuaron would be a potential director for Fantastic Beasts, And Where To Find Them over at Warner Bros. But there's a very strong chance the WB also want him for another project, if reports are true. How would you like to see Alfonso Cuaron attempt the unthinkable and make a prequel to a film by Stanley Kubrick? SchmoesKnow is reporting that an offer...
In 2009, The Walt Disney Company bought Marvel Comics for $4 Billion worth of Mickey Mouse's pocket change, and all was right with the world. The Marvel Cinematic Universe became a force to be reckoned with. Last year, Walt Disney Animation thoroughly revived itself in the wake of Frozen's unexpected level of soaring success. But behind the scenes, director Don Hall was working on creating a project...
The Cannes Film Festival is best known for debuting daring new cinema, like Ryan Gosling's directorial debut Lost River or the Nicole Kidman vehicle Grace of Monaco. Meanwhile, the Cannes Film Market is a hotbed of distribution deals both foreign and domestic. There, amid titles like Kidnap and Skiptrace, the rumored Skyline sequel is gaining momentum. Dark Horizons has learned that a sequel to the...
Take a trip to France with Colin Firth and Emma Stone He returned home to the States for Blue Jasmine , but Woody Allen has flitted once more to Europe – and the past – with his latest romantic comedy drama, Magic In The Moonlight . The first trailer has appeared and can be watched below. Colin Firth stars as a stage magician dispatched to the south of France to help his family with an...
He'll replace Guy Pearce in the Johnny Depp-starring drama Depending on which report you read, the crime drama based on the real life tale of Boston mobster Whitey Bulger is either still named Black Mass or has returned to untitled status. Still, however it ends up, the film is in production now, with Benedict Cumberbatch and Adam Scott as the latest additions . Cumberbatch is replacing Guy Pearce...
And it's shooting now... After months of guesses, speculation and one reveal of Ben Affleck’s Batman in a monochrome picture , we now know the title for Zack Snyder’s Man Of Steel follow-up. Prepare yourself to visit a cinema in 2016 to see…. Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice .{Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice Title Revealed} Clearly intended to lead – as everyone and their...
Entourage producer hits up Hells Angels Developing for at least a decade, and previously in the hands of the late Tony Scott, Fox's biopic of Sonny Barger and the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club has now landed with Entourage writer-producer Scott Weiss. "We're approaching this as a genesis story of the motorcycle club culture," says Weiss. "I've wanted to do something in the biker space...
Things are about to get nasty Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez are going all out to make sure no one forgets that Sin City follow-up A Dame To Kill For will be hitting our cinemas hard later this year. The latest front in the film’s visual assault is a series of character posters spread among IGN , EW , IMDB , MTV and Fandango . {Sin City: A Dame To Kill For character posters} Front and centre...
Exploring the life of the legendary critic The world lost a titan of film criticism last year when Roger Ebert finally lost his life to the cancer that had taken his lower jaw. Hoop Dreams director Steve James and a team of Ebert’s closest acquaintances have put together Life Itself , a documentary that explores his life and his impact on the world of cinema and beyond. The new trailer for the...
He's sought to star in Jonathan Demme's new film Robert Redford is currently taking A Walk In The Woods (that's his long-planned adaptation of Bill Bryson’s book, not just a quick ramble), but a potential new film could see him shoulder the mantle of an evangelical minister. Jonathan Demme is looking to secure Redford’s services for Come Sunday . The film, which was originally called Heretics...
If there's anyone that can be considered an equal to Steven Spielberg, particularly in the realm of projects falling by the wayside, it would most definitely have to be The Coen Brothers. Joel and Ethan Coen have their names on a lot of projects that just didn't make it, and are either never going to happen or are quietly waiting their turn to finally be brought into the light. Even their latest project,...
Hollywood used to specialize in blockbusters. Nowadays, the industry’s trying to specialize in franchises. It’s not enough to deliver a singular, entertaining, standalone film. Movies like The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and X-Men: Days of Future Past now have to exist to set up the next film (or series of films). And it’s not just comic-book movies that are guilty of this practice. Almost...
Since the passing of beloved actor Paul Walker, there has been a ton of talk and speculation about what Fast & Furious 7, which was in production when he died, would do to complete the film. From writing Walker out to using deleted scenes from earlier movies to paying for CGI work, pretty much every conceivable possibility was publicly chewed around. Lost in that loud shuffle was a really interesting,...