Author: Steven Potgeter

The lucky ones who were at the Toronto International Film Festival last week have already gotten to see the new Nicolas Cage film Mom and Dad. For now, the rest of us will have to speculate and speculate we will. It’s been a tough 2017 for us Cage fans. January gave us Arsenal which despite featuring The Cage reprising his fan favorite role as Eddie from Deadfall (“WHAT AM I F—ING RETARD?! AM I A F—ING RETARD, HUH??!!”) was generic and boring. June gave us Inconceivable which wasted our favorite wild man by sticking him in a boring role as the leading lady’s doting husband. Finally, this month gave…

Ah, The Room! The ultimate cult film! If you’re spending time on a movie website, I’m sure that you know about it! Odds are, you’ve probably attended a special screening of it and thrown spoons at it. I know I have. There’s just something about The Room that has such staying power. People are still watching it and laughing at it nearly 15 years later and I suspect that we will continue to for years to come. So, with The Room being the cult hit that it is, it was only a matter of time before we got a film about the film’s production. An Ed…

It’s always been interesting to me just how much nostalgia that people have for the 1990 IT miniseries. For a great many people that I’ve talked to regarding the subject, the film seems to have been an important part of their childhood. For many of them, it was their first exposure to horror films and for even more, it was the source for countless nightmares and the reason why they slept in Mom and Dad’s room for a few nights. You can’t talk about IT at a social gathering without someone mentioning how much the film terrified them as a kid. Love it or…

Those of you who have been waiting since 2003 for Jeeper Creepers 3 will have a wait a little longer. HorrorFreakNews reports that the September 13th premiere for this thing at the TCL Chinese Theater in Los Angeles has been cancelled. This is due to the theater management fearing protests over director Victor Salva’s truly abhorrent crimes. TCL Chinese Theater Management sent this message to customers who had already purchased their tickets for the event: “Dear Valued Customer, We would like to inform you that due to events beyond our control, the screening event hosted by @Moviedude18 for ‘Jeepers Creepers and Jeepers…

There’s been a lot of articles floating around the internet recently regarding the DCEU and who may or may not be dropping out of it. Over the past week, there have been rumors that Ben Affleck and/or Jessie Eisenberg, and/or Jared Leto might have uncertain futures in The DCEU. Time will tell if any of these articles are true or not but actor Jared Leto (who played The Joker in Suicide Squad) went on the Australian radio show Kyle and Jackie O this week to confirm that any talk of his departure from the role is a non-story. When asked by the…

So while you kids were looking at the eclipse, Marvel has dropped some exciting Punisher news! Even though The Defenders only just hit Netflix last week, Marvel is wasting no time starting the hype train for season one of The Punisher where we will finally see Frank Castle take center stage in his own show. This will be the first solo Punisher vehicle since the 2008 film Punisher: War Zone and possibly the first non embarrassing adaptation since the Thomas Jane one in 2004. Although it was great to see Castle clash with Matt Murdoch over their very different definitions of crime fighting in Daredevil season two, it’s…

French director Luc Besson (he’s the guy behind Leon: The Professional, The Fifth Element, Lucy, and this year’s mega-flop Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets) decided he didn’t want to make any new friends in a recent interview. In fact, Besson had some harsh things to say about superhero movies, Captain America, and the United States. When asked if he was tired of superhero flicks, Besson had this to say to Cine Pop: “Totally tired of it. Totally. I mean it was great ten years ago when we [saw] the first Spider-Man and Iron Man. Now it’s like number five, six, seven.…

Well, folks remember that story that floated around earlier this week about how Robert Pattinson refused to jerk off a dog for a movie scene? Turns out that it’s nothing but FAKE NEWS! Pattinson issued a statement to People saying that he made up the story for laughs during his Jimmy Kimmel Live! appearance stating: “The story I told on Jimmy Kimmel last night seems to have spiraled out of control … What didn’t come across is that this was supposed to be a joke. No one at all expected or assumed that anything like that would happen on the ‘Good Time’…

After phoning in his performances in way, way way too many straight to VOD action films (SEVEN IN A ROW! HE MADE SEVEN OF THEM!), Bruce Willis has decided it’s time for a career resurgence. The timing makes sense since the movie gods have recently granted comeback films to other movie stars who peaked in the 80s and the 90s. In the past few years we’ve seen to resurgence of Keanu Reeves with John Wick and John Wick Chapter 2, Kurt Russell with Furious 7 and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, and Sylvester Stallone with Creed.  So which film has ol’ Bruno decided to kick off his return…

We’ve had so much news regarding live action remakes of Disney films lately that I’m starting to wonder what’s next. A live action Brave Little Toaster? Home on the Range perhaps? For now though we’re only dealing with a live action remake of Disney’s 1992 project Aladdin which has just found its three leading actors. Rolling Stone reports that Egyptian born Canadian actor Mena Massoud has been confirmed as Aladdin and Naomi Scott (who you may remember as the pink ranger from the Power Rangers reboot earlier this year) will be playing Jasmine. Let’s face it though – the roles of Aladdin and Jasmine aren’t the…