Following her looks at contemporary warfare with The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, director Kathryn Bigelow is heading back into the past to look at a different kind of battle – the riots that ripped through Detroit in 1967.
Although many outsiders saw Detroit as leading the way in desegregation in the 1960s, this covered up massive racial and social inequalities, and efforts to deal with some of these problems led to growing tension. That boiled over in July 1967 following a police raid on an unlicensed bar, leading to five days of riots that left 43 dead, 1189 injured and over 2000 buildings destroyed.
In the movie, John Boyega plays a security guard facing the issues with the police force, which has been desegregated but is still rife with bigotry and institutional racism. He then gets caught up in the events that overtake the city.
Take a look at the trailer below. The movie is due in cinemas in August. [Read more…]
It’s been suggested that over the course of the five planned Fantastic Beasts movies, the focus will move away from Eddie Redmayne’s Newt Scamander and towards a young Albus Dumbledore. That makes sense, as from the Harry Potter books we know it’s Dumbledore who took on the evil Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp) in a climactic battle in 1945.
One of the rules of Marvel’s Cinematic Universe is that actors are only supposed to be able to play one character (Paul Bettany slightly broke that rule by being the voice of robotic butler JARVIS and then playing Vision in Age Of Ultron), but Josh Brolin has found away around it. He’s playing Thanos in Avengers: Afinity Wars, and by jumping across to the world of X-Men (which Fox owns the rights for), he’s now going to play Cable in Deadpool 2.
Back in December we posted a teaser for the Greeks Come True calendar. You might think that by June, we’d be out of calendar season, but there’s a bit more coming, as the guys behind Greeks Come True have released a 90-minute vid they’re promising is the ‘hottest behind the scenes movie ever!’
Synopsis: ‘In April 1980, six armed gunmen stormed the Iranian Embassy in Princes Gate, London, taking 26 people inside hostage. Over the next six days a tense standoff took place, all the while a group of highly trained soldiers from the SAS prepared for a raid, the likes of which the world had never seen before.
There’s a lot of excitement about Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver. That revved up after SXSW, where festival audiences suggested the director has another success on his hand. Now a new trailer has arrived
This summer Charlize Theron will once more be proving that she can kick ass with the best of them. Now a new trailer has arrived to give us a fresh look at the graphic novel inspired movie.
The charming gay-themed drama Akron is out on DVD now in the UK, courtesy of TLA Releasing. We’ve teamed up with them to give away three copies in this competition.
Good on the Chicago Cubs. Thanks to their support, Landline has become what’s believed to be the first LGBT-themed movie given licensing support from a team in a US national sports league. 
It looks like there’s gonna be a bit of a change for the third Thor movie, with more of a Guardians Of The Galaxy feel, rather than the rather po-faced previous adventures. That includes the destruction of Asgard, as well as Thor’s infamous hammer, and the demigod getting a brand new hairdo.
