Pawn Sacrifice has sure taken a long time to get here. Back in 2010 David Fincher toyed with helming the film, based on Steven Knight’s script, and then Ed Zwick signed up to direct Tobey Maguire in the movie way back in the summer of 2012.
It shot in 2013 premieres at TIFF at the end of last year, but it’s only now a trailer has arrived before the September US release.
Here’s the synopsis: ‘In a gripping true story set during the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer (Tobey Maguire) finds himself caught between two superpowers when he challenges the Soviet Empire. Also starring Liev Schreiber and Peter Sarsgaard, PAWN SACRIFICE chronicles Fischer’s terrifying struggles with genius and madness, and the rise and fall of a kid from Brooklyn who captured the imagination of the world.’ [Read more…]
Will it be Almost Famous all over again, but time with literature instead of music? Probably not, but they do have similar premises, with a Rolling Stone journalist heading off on the road to interview someone and write a piece.
It seems Marvel’s Doctor Strange is going to have a bit of a British flavour (it might as well, as they film all their movies in Britain anyway), as with Benedict Cumberbatch already installed in the title role, he may now be joined by Tilda Swinton, according to 
A few years ago the news that Robert Rodriguez was taking on a movie would be reason for excitement, but we’ve had a few too many Sharkboy And Lavagirls, and Sin City: A Dame To Kill Fors, for it to mean the same as it once did.
Synopsis: Black Mass stars Oscar® nominee Johnny Depp (“Public Enemies”, “Donnie Brasco”, the “Pirates of the Caribbean” films) as Whitey Bulger and Joel Edgerton (“The Great Gatsby,” “Zero Dark Thirty”) as FBI Agent John Connolly. Filming began in Boston under the direction of Scott Cooper (“Out of the Furnace,” “Crazy Heart”).
It looks like we’ll be getting something a little different from Keanu Reeves in Knock Knock, not least that he’ll be getting pleasured by two women!
Poor old Matt Damon, he got stranded for years on a distant planet in Interstellar and now he’s getting trapped alone on Mars! The first pics from Ridley Scott’s The Martian have now emerged, showing Matt looking very lonely on the Red Planet.
Here’s something you almost never see – a film where the female lead is both older than the male, and they are romantically attached. Seriously, see if you can think of any other movies where in terms of love interests the man was younger than the woman, while it’s almost par for the course that leading men get to star opposite a woman significantly younger than they are.
A few months ago Disney revealed that they were working on a live action film featuring Peter Pan’s fairy friend, Tinker Bell – which considering the success of their Disney’s Fairies line of merchandise and film, isn’t surprising.
Frameline, the San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival, has certainly gone to town creating its trailer for its latest edition, which runs June 18th-28th, offering a very gay and sparkly Wizard Of Oz fantasy.