Your Week In Film: What Wonder Women Wants Stephen O'Nion November 17, 2017 News 1. Don’t worry! Wonder Woman 2 is a whole lot closer It’s a bumper time for Wonder Woman fans. Not only is Gal Gadot currently on out screens in Justice League – a film described by our own Joni Blyth...
Your Week In Film: A Deal for Peele, a New Turn for Dern, and more! Stephen O'Nion May 5, 2017 News 1. Jordan Peele appeal for real; Universal seal deal for future reels Having set the record for highest-grossing feature debut from a writer-director with an original screenplay (you should see the size of...
Your Week In Film: Eastern Promises, Western Capitalism and Poop Stephen O'Nion January 20, 2017 News 1. MLK weekend is a fairly unhappy holiday for new releases The Martin Luther King holiday weekend in the US is usually a chance for a blockbuster to open big against the awards bait swamping the cinema....
Your Week In Film: Divergent’s dive, Star Trek’s stars, Pokémon’s poaching Stephen O'Nion July 22, 2016 News 1. Lionsgate plots TV-centric future for Divergent One of the bigger surprises this week - not least to its star, Shailene Woodley - concerned the Divergent franchise. On Wednesday, Variety reported that the...
Your Week In Film: Miles, Minecraft, More Independence Day, and More Mad Max… Stephen O'Nion July 1, 2016 News 1. Class is in session for The Academy, looks rather more diverse The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has finished licking envelopes and applying novelty stamps to the latest batch of invitations...
Your Week in Film – Poppins, The Rock and Ready Player Rogue One Eddie Falvey June 3, 2016 News 1. Rogue One scheduled for summer reshoots While the first trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was generally well received, it is fair to say that it was a little on the dour side. Well according to...
Your Week In Film: Palme d’Ors, Thor, Finding Dory, and more… Stephen O'Nion May 27, 2016 News 1. Ken Loach wins his second Palme d'Or at Cannes Festival de Cannes 2016 is over and it offered a wide display of talent from some of the best filmmakers in the world. Beside out-of-competition heavyweights...
The Last of Us: The First Of The Great Video Game Adaptations Stephen O'Nion March 11, 2014 Analysis, Features Hey! Listen! Here’s an uncontroversial opinion: films based on video games are bad. A less uncontroversial opinion - but still a surprisingly rare one - this will change. soon. Roughly each year for the...
Casting Call – Hitman Stephen O'Nion January 9, 2014 Behind The Curtain, Casting Call, Features 2 Comments With Paul Walker’s untimely death, a number of projects have had to be put on hold. Fast and Furious 7 has decided to quietly retire Walker’s character with already-shot footage but what of the productions...