Jane Got A Gun got off to a really rough start, with cast issues and director Lynne Ramsey leaving the day before it was due to start shooting. That caused huge delays, more cast changes and the recruitment at short notice of a new helmer, Gavin O’Connor (Warrior).
Hopefully it’s manage to overcome those teething issues.
Here’s the synopsis: ‘Jane Got a Gun [Natalie Portman] centers on Jane Hammond, who has built a new life with her husband Bill “Ham” Hammond after being tormented by the ultra-violent Bishop Boys outlaw gang. She finds herself in the gang’s cross-hairs once again when Ham stumbles home riddled with bullets after dueling with the Boys and their relentless mastermind Colin. With the vengeful crew hot on Ham’s trail, Jane has nowhere to turn but to her former fiancé Dan Frost for help in defending her family against certain destruction. Haunted by old memories, Jane’s past meets the present in a heart-stopping battle for survival.’ [Read more…]
Jennifer Lawrence reunites with director David O. Russell (American Hustle, Silver Linings Playbook) with a new film – all about mops. Well, sort of, as it’s about the inventor of the Miracle Mop, although as the trailer shows, it’s perhaps more mob movie (with a dash of comedy) than flowery biopic.
Dad’s Army is arguably the most successful British sitcom ever, still regularly shown during primetime even though it started in 1968 and the final original episode went out in 1978. It’s not too surprising then that the film world has come calling for a remake that bring the Home Front men to the big screen.
The excitement around Star Wars: The Force Awakens is already causing cinema websites to break under the weight of people trying to book tickets, and just in case there was anyone who wasn’t already planning to go, a final trailer has arrived.
The second season of Those Damn Canadians (also known as Canooks) has just debuted, so it’s a great opportunity to catch up with all the episodes so far of the gay-themed web series.
There are a few gay-themed movies that have been submitted by various countries hoping to win the Best Foreign Film Oscar, and one of those in from Thailand, which has put forward How to Win at Checkers (Every Time) as it’s submission.
It wasn’t expected until tomorrow, but the official main poster for Star Wars: The Force Awakens has arrived, which is bound to have fans poring over it, trying to unpick what it says about the characters old and new, from Han Solo and Princess Leia to John Boyega’s Finn and Daisy Ridley’s Rey.