I think it’s likely the title for this movie came before any idea about the plot, which may explain why the trailer suggests this is gonna be a bit of an odd movie. Not necessarily a bad one, but an odd one.
Here’s the synopsis: ‘Looking for any way to get away from the life and town he was born into, Tripp (Lucas Till), a high school senior, builds a Monster Truck from bits and pieces of scrapped cars. After an accident at a nearby oil-drilling site displaces a strange and subterranean creature with a taste and a talent for speed, Tripp may have just found the key to getting out of town and a most unlikely friend.
‘Melding cutting edge visual effects and state-of-the-art CGI, Monster Trucks is an action filled adventure for the whole family that will keep you on the edge of your seat and ultimately touch your heart.’
Ice Age’s Chris Wedge directs the movie, which will be in cinemas February 2017. Take a look at the first trailer below. [Read more…]
Over the past few years, filmmaker Mike Buonaiuto has been making LGBT-themed project with a bit of a conscience to them, such as Homecoming, which used military men coming home to talk about equal marriage, and 
Judd Apatow is the director behind the likes of Knocked Up, The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Trainwreck. However, if Akiva Shaffer is to be believed, he’s also been doing a bit of work in front of the camera – or at least his penis has.
It can often be difficult to understand why people would get involved in a cult, but there is certainly an allure for some to fringe groups that seem to offer answers – no matter how odd or fantastical it seems from the outside. The documentary Holy Hell, which got great notices following its Sundance debut (the words ‘fascinating’ and ‘chilling’ turned up a lot in review), takes a look at what happened to those who followed Michel, who founded Los Angeles-based spiritual community known as The Buddha Field.
The 1996 film Mother, May I Sleep with Danger? is perhaps best known for having been made for cinemas but being so laughably silly that it ended up airing on NBC as a TV movie. It certainly didn’t help Tori Spelling’s career at the time, but it has become a bit of a cult classic.
When in 2010 oil was gush from deep in the Gulf Of Mexico with BP having massive difficulty is stemming the flow, it was easy to forget that the ecological disaster only came after a terrible human disaster, when the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, killing 11 people. Director Peter Berg has reteamed with his Lon Survivor star Mark Wahlberg to tell the story of what happened.
A couple of years ago Asa Butterfield was in space as the talented title character in Ender’s Game. Now he’s going back for The Space Between Us, a sci-fi teen love story. It also has a slight feel of the sort of existential science fiction the 1970s gave us.
There’s a new guest star in this episode of Go-Go Boy Interrupted, with the appearance of Scott Evans (who it is obligatory to say in Chris Evans’ gay brother, as well as being a former star of the soap One Life To Live). However, he’s not being a superhero like his bro here, as he is one of the ‘mean gays’, that Danny (Jimmy Fowlie) tries to befriend.
Synopsis: Liebmann is a visually evocative, subtly emotive story of a man who must face the ghosts of his past before he can start a new life and engage in the possibility of true happiness.