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Emerald Fenell has received multiple Oscar-nominated for her direction of Promising Young Woman and it now looks as if one of her forthcoming projects will be a superhero movie. It might have been asking too much of pigment-based irony for Emerald to write a Green Lantern movie, but it...
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For a long time, James Cameron’s Avatar maintained the position of ‘most successful film of all time’, essentially taking that top spot from his own Titanic outing. The film, a ground-breaking mixture of motion-capture, CGI and human characters, was a massive financial success (and a reasonable critical one) that...
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You might have been forgiven for thinking there wouldn’t be an Academy Awards in 2021. For much of 2020, cinemas were closed and film production either slowed down or ground to a halt. Most films couldn’t be made and even the ones that were completed couldn’t be seen easily....
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A couple of years ago we reported that the latest attempt to revive the Kung Fu series was possibly going to move forward at Fox. The original Kung Fu concept was, of course, a hit for the late David Carradine during its run from 1972-1975. The series followed Kwai Chang...
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With pandemic information fluctuating – the rate of infections coming down with the availability of the vaccine but with numbers of infected still scarily high – there continues to be disruption and changes to release patterns for tent-pole movies Univeral‘s F9 (the latest part of the Fast and Furious...
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The seventh and final series of Amazon Prime‘s screen adaptation of Bosch, the best-selling book-series featuring Michael Connelly’s detective Harry Bosch, has just finished filming ahead of a summer launch and for a while now many of the show’s (and books’) fans have been campaigning for another season of...
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After several days of its lead actors posting ‘fake’ titles for the next Spider-man movie, Marvel have come clean and revealed what the real title will be. Following the tradition of putting ‘Home’ in the title (Homecoming, Far from Home), the third Spider-man movie with Tom Holland in the...
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The NCIS franchise is one of television’s most notable success stories. It all began as a 2002 spin-off from JAG and the main NCIS show led by Mark Harmon (which emerged in 2003) has now eclipsed all other contenders, currently in its eighteenth year. There have been further spin-offs including...
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HBO‘s The Last of Us (an adaptation of the PS4 game set twenty years after an infection has ravaged humanity and left disparate groups trying to survive the infected and each other) seems to be progressing nicely with concrete decisions made about the casting. Two familiar genre names will...