Alice Through The Looking Glass Posters Are Magical!

Seriously though, how cute does the Cheshire Cat look in the poster? Absolutely adorable...

Trailer:

Alice Through The Looking Glass will be in UK cinemas from 27th May 2016.

First Look At Wonder Woman Movie In This Featurette

It's about time that Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) was made into a film and from the look of this featurette, the film is going to be ass-kickingly good and from the looks of it, Batman/Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck) will also be making an appearance.

Check out the featurette below:

Wonder Woman will be in cinemas 23rd June 2017

The First Full Trailer For Suicide Squad: And It's The Best Trailer Ever!

Think of when you're sat at the cinema and the trailers come on. You see an epic trailer and you turn to who ever you are with and say "we're going to see that!" It was a very rememberable trailer and then you tell your family and friends about this film that looks awesome - because the trailer was so good.

Well, forget about any of those trailers that you've seen and have said "that was the best trailer ever". Forget it. Because the Suicide Squad full trailer is going to be your new favourite.

The trailer shows all of the characters in action and gives you more of a peek at the Joker (Jared Leto) - since we haven't really seen much of him before this.

Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn

Will Smith as Deadshot

Jai Courtney as Captain Boomerang

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Killer Croc

Cara Delevigne as Enchantress

Karen Fukuhara as Katana

Jared Leto as the Joker

Jay Hernandez as El Diablo

Not only is it absolutely crazy but with 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by Queen in the background, it proves to be mind-blowing. 

Check out the trailer here:

Suicide Squad will be in cinemas on 5th August 2016

Vin Diesel Releases First Information About Fast & Furious 8

Vin Diesel released the first piece of information about the upcoming Fast & Furious 8 movie - or just Fast 8 - carrying on from the perfect farewell to Paul Walker which was more commonly known as Furious 7.

As we can tell from the new poster and from what Diesel has said in the past about the newest film in the franchise, Fast 8 will be set in New York City and may also be set in Cuba.

Fast 8 will be directed by F. Gary Gray who has also directed Straight Outta Compton.

Fans of the films in the UK can expect to see it on May 17th 2017 and US fans can see it a whole month beforehand on 27th April 2017.

The Hateful Eight Review

This is a stereotypical Quentin Tarantino film and if you love his movies, you're going to love this. Similarly, if you love Django Unchained, you're going to love The Hateful Eight as it's similar in ways.

Shot in the Ultra Panavision 70 format - which was last properly used in the Fifties and Sixties - it uses the archaic cameras to capture the long, magnificent opening scene. The cinematographer, Robert Richardson deserves an award for his work during this film; the cinematography is superb during the first chapter. Same goes to the composer, Ennio Morricone who's score during the entire film is a piece of art. He captures the western theme perfectly.

The three hour and seven minute film is divided into chapters which adds a brilliant touch to separate the different parts of the story. There is also a nice narrative by the director himself, where Tarantino does a voiceover to describe a party of the story; maybe it wasn't needed but it added a nice touch.

The all star cast is Samuel L Jackson as Major Marquis Warren, Kurt Russell as John Ruth, Jennifer Jason Leigh as the black-eyed Daisy Domergue, Tim Roth as the very British Oswaldo Mobray, Michael Madson as the stereotypical cowboy, Joe Gage, Walton Goggins as the soon-to-be Sheriff of Red Rock, Sheriff Chris Mannix, Bruce Dern as General Sanford Smithers and Demián Bichir as Bob.

Kurt Russell and Samuel L Jackson as John Ruth and Major Marquis Warren

The problem with such a long film is that you have to make sure that every moment is captivating otherwise you're going to lose your audience and they're going to get bored. There were only very few of these moments where time seemed to go very slow but for the rest of the two and three quarter hours, it was suspenseful and crazy.

The Hateful Eight starts out with John Ruth, O.B Jackson (James Parks) and Daisy Domergue riding in a carriage through a blizzard in Wyoming on the way to Red Rock so Ruth can hang Domergue for murder. 

On their way, fellow bounty hunter, Major Marquis Warren stumbles across the carriage where he asks Ruth if he can ride with them so he can also escort his dead to Red Rock. The three of them plus O.B also come across Chris Mannix and reluctantly let him ride with them. 

45 minutes later and they come to Minnie's Haberdashery where they meet the other 5 men.

Tim Roth, Kurt Russell and Jennifer Jason Leigh as Oswaldo Mobray, John Ruth and Daisy Domergue

The plot unfolds as a whodunnit and Cluedo type of film where gore and expletives are thrown in for the fun of it and the casual expression of n**** is a typical in a Tarantino film but the racism almost becomes the subplot of the film.

The rest of the movie is set in the Haberdashery and feels like a theatre production with the one room settings and pushing in a group of people who don't know each other together. Basically a recipe for disaster.

Tarantino pulls it off and this is a brilliant film; even though it's slow at times and more gore was expected, it was a breathtaking piece of work.

Daisy Domergue played by Jennifer Jason Leigh

Major Marquis Warren played by Samuel L Jackson

X-Men: Apocalypse New Poster

X-Men: Apocalypse has a new poster! It promises death and destruction from the tagline "only the strong will survive". 

Oscar Isaac will be portraying the super-villain, Apocalypse - who is known for being in the top 10 of Marvel's super-villains. 

Other newcomers joining Isaac on the big screen is Tye Sheridan (Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse) as Cyclops, Sophie Turner (Game of Thrones) as Jean Grey, Kodi Smit McPhee (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes) as Nightcrawler, Lana Condor as Jubilee, Alexandra Shipp (Straight Outta Compton) as Storm, Ben Hardy (Eastenders) as Angel and Olivia Munn (Iron Man 2) as Psylocke. X-

X-Men: Apocalypse will be in UK cinemas from May 16th 2016 and in US cinemas from May 27th 2016

Krampus Review

You would think that the Christmas holiday is the happiest, most wonderful holiday of the year. A holiday where you and all of your loved ones come together to celebrate family and friends.

No. Not in this film.

Krampus is about a family who haven't been blessed with getting along and once extended family come to the door of Tom (Adam Scott) and Sarah (Toni Collette), things start to turn a bit a bit sour With Uncle Howard (David Koechner) and Aunt Dorothy (Conchata Ferell) jabbing at Tom, Sarah and their family, everyone loses it. After Max (Emjay Anthony) has written his letter to Santa Claus asking for their family to get along and then realises that he will never get his wish, he tears the letter up and throws it out of his window. Which is when things start to get nasty. Krampus comes to town.



This is a fantastic film, at times the lighting is bad but you hardly notice. One of the brilliant things about this film - and a lot of people would disagree - is the very beginning. The opening credits. It shows a hoard of people racing into a mega store and fighting over Christmas decorations and presents. People are getting punched, crying and screaming and it's perfect. Because it's true. Christmas shopping is a horrible nightmare, it's chaos and it gets people down. It couldn't have set up the characters and their family environment any better.

Another fantastic element of Krampus is when Omi (Krista Sadler) is telling a story about her experience with the anti-Santa when she was a child. Instead of showing her past with realism and actual cast members, it's shown through animation and the animation is brilliant. It diverted away from the usual way of showing flashback and it added a good twist.

The monsters are brilliant bur warning! If you don't like clowns, dolls, or toys coming to life, then don't watch this film (I'm scared of both clowns and dolls so I was cowering in my seat). Krampus himself was extraordinary. His face was gaunt, his eyes sunken. It wasn't scary but it was well done.

The ending! It was a huge plot twist. You think that everything is ok, everything is going to be fine, they're one happy family and they're going to finally enjoy their Christmas but again, this film surprises the audience and does something that you're not going to expect.

Overall, this film is incredible. It's not perfect (the comical gingerbread men were a bit too much of a push) but it's got a brilliant cast from a range of genres, it's got the jump-scares and it's a good horror/comedy Christmas film.

Download Announce One More Band for 2016 Festival

Lawnermower Deth are the next band to be announced for Download festival 2016.

They self-confirmed their appearance on Simon Mayo's BBC Radio 2 Show and since it seems as if many people haven't heard of them, then I'm guessing a little YouTubing of the band is going to be underway over the next few months.

Download festival 2016 will also be featuring Gutterdammerung. Never heard of it? It's a rock and roll/film/gig concept from Belgian-Swedish, Bjorn Tagemose. It will feature some of the biggest rock names on the planet.

This year, it will follow a traditional 1920's Hollywood classical movie. It will feature a live rock band and special effects from the film being exploded all around the audience whilst the band is playing.

The film is going to be set in a world where God has saved the world from all sin by taking the Devil's 'Grail of Sin' (The Evil Guitar) away from Earth. The Earth is now pure. Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll is not allowed. Vicious (Iggy Pop) - who is a "punk-angel" in heaven - looks down upon Earth, sees that it's boring and sends The Evil Guitar back to Earth. Henry Rollins plays an evil puritan priest and tries to manipulate a girl into getting and destroying the guitar. Whilst on the journey to locate the Devil's Grail of Sin, she encounters some of the world's most evil rock and roll individuals.

The cast include: Iggy Pop, Grace Jones, Henry Rollins, Jesse Hughes, Lemmy, Tom Araya, Volbeat, Mark Lanegan, Joshua Homme, Justice, Slash and Nina Hagen.

Sounds awesome doesn't it? It's very different and very cool...

Book Download tickets at http://downloadfestival.co.uk/tickets

First Ever Trailer for Game of Thrones Season 6

HBO released the 40 second teaser trailer for season six of Game of Thrones which is coming out in April 2016.

The trailer features the unheard voice of the three-eyed raven played by Max von Sydow and also features Bran Stark (Isaac Hempstead Wright) who didn't make an appearance in season five of the worldwide phenomenon.

During the 40 seconds, we see only some of the moments of death and destruction that viewers have seen over the last five seasons.

More news to come soon...

Black Mass Review

With the brutality, the choice of actors and the fact that it's based on true events, what's not to love about this film? 

The answer is a lot. But we'll get to that in a bit.

First of all, Johnny Depp hasn't been in a role like this for a long time. Playing the notorious Boston gangster, James "Whitey" Bulger, Depp delves deep into this role like he hasn't in what seems like forever. He always seems to be playing caricature characters like The Mad Hatter or Willy Wonka. He's so much more brilliant than that and this film proves it. His acting is brilliant and he embraces the character of the psychotic Bulger perfectly. 

Black Mass -written by Jez Butterworth and Mark Mallouk and directed by Scott Cooper - is about James Bulger, the head of the Winter Hill Gang who dealt drugs to nearly every street in the area and ran an extortion racket during the seventies and eighties in South Boston. Whilst doing all of this, he also worked with the FBI as an informant. The film let's viewers experience the gruesome day-today going of James and how he became the Kingpin of Boston.

One of the best parts about Black Mass was that it didn't glorify the gory details of what the Winter Hill Gang did, it shows them the way that it should be shown: with blood and screaming. We saw people get beat to death, shot in the head and more specifically, when Bulger strangled Deborah Hussey (Juno Temple) to death and you could hear her gasping for breath and gurgling in the background. It's dark and gritty and that works really well.

Joel Edgerton (John Connolly) plays the FBI agent who convinces Bulger to become an FBI informant to bring down the Italian Mafia. Connolly grew up with Bulger in South Boston and thinks of them as close friends. Slowly throughout the film, you see Connolly act more and more like the gangsters he's trying to bring in and see him turn into a corrupt agent as he begins to hide Bulger's and his own activities from his superiors. Edgerton gets almost as much screen time as Depp which was important because Bulger and Connolly were almost 'in it' together. 

However, the film gets a bit boring half way through. It loses it's momentum and it's not fun. It felt samey as the movie carried on, like some of the scenes had just been repeated over and over again. it felt lumpy and disconnected in places which is a shame because the performances from the actors were outstanding. 

Characters such as Whitey Bulger's brother - William "Billy" Bulger (Benedict Cumberbatch) - felt like they needed more airtime. Billy Bulger is crucial to the story of his brother's gangster life because he turned a blind eye to his extra-curricular activities and stood by him as a brother. Cumberbatch's amazing acting skills were left under-used so it felt like he was there in the background. He needed more screen time.

Black Mass was a bit of a disappointment. Underneath all of the brilliant acting and the gruesome, horrific ways of James Bulger, the film felt too long. It didn't know whether it wanted to concentrate on bringing down the Italian mafia or the story of Bulger himself; they needed to use the incredible actors that they cast to their advantage and they didn't. They just left them there in the shadows.

Everything That There Is To Know About Marvel's Doctor Strange Movie

We don't know much at all about the upcoming Doctor Strange film. We know the release date is October 28th 2016 for the UK and a week later on November 4th 2016 for the US. and we know that Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock, The Imitation Game) is starring as the eponymous role.

Also confirmed for roles in Marvel's Doctor Strange is Amy Landecker (Transparent), Rachel McAdams (Southpaw, True Detective), Tilda Swinton (Only Lovers Left Alive), Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years A Slave, The Martian), Mads Mikkelson (Hannibal, Casino Royale) and Michael Stuhlbarg (Boardwalk Empire, Hugo).

Tilda Swinton will be portraying the role of the Ancient One and Chiwetel Ejiofor as Baron Mordo.

Kevin Fiege will be producing and script duties will be handled by Jon Spaihts.

Shooting is currently underway for the mysterious film as Scott Derrickson directing but could have the film gone in a completely different direction?

Neil Gaiman posted a tweet on 27th November saying "@KurtBusiek I still wish Marvel had been interested in a @RealGDT & me Dr Strange movie, because I wanted to wrote Clea so badly after 1602." By @RealGDT, he means Guillermo del Torro. Can you imagine a Doctor Strange film by those two? It sounds fascinating and brilliant. Unfortunately, Marvel turned down their pitch and went with Derrickson's instead.

DC's Legends of Tomorrow Trailer

Spinoff show, Legends of Tomorrow brings back the cast of Arrow and The Flash with some new names making an appearance in upcoming Arrow and The Flash episodes.

The trailer shows The Atom (Brandon Routh), White Canary (Caity Lotz), Firestorm (Jay Jackson and Victor Garber) , Heatwave (Dominic Purcell), Captain Cold (Wentworth Miller), Hawkman (Falk Hentschel) and Hawkgirl (Ciara Renée) with appearances from Stephen Amell (Arrow) and Katie Cassidy (Black Canary).

Hawkman and Hawkgirl

Arthur Darvill (Doctor Who) will also be in Legends of Tomorrow portraying the character of Rip Hunter who is a member of the Time Masters. Coincidence? I don't know but I love it.

Halfway through the trailer, there is a reference to Superman and Batman; Hunter tells eight individuals that he's seen "men of steel die and dark knights fall". A reference maybe to the Batman versus Superman movie coming out? I don't know, all we can do is wait.


Trailers:

Legends of Tomorrow will air on The CW in January 2016 in the US and the UK air date to follow.