Tag: christinahendricks

THE STRANGERS: PREY AT NIGHT Trailer: Will The Sequel Retain its Early Aughts Era Roots?

A strong first teaser for The Strangers: Prey at Night has landed from Aviron Pictures. 47 Meters Down director, Johannes Roberts, takes the reigns on the loooong promised sequel to Bryan Bertino's seminal home invasion thriller The Strangers which shocked...

Cannes 2016 Review: THE NEON DEMON, A Dark, Seductive Symphony

If beauty is fleeting, is there anything more precious than protecting it while it lasts? If all you have going for yourself is the outer shell, to what lengths would you go to in order to keep your specialness? Does...

THE NEON DEMON First Trailer: Are You Kidding Me?

The first trailer for Nicolas Winding Refn's The Neon Demon looks freaking amazing. (Full disclosure: This is a personal reaction based on less than two minutes of artfully arranged footage, tied together with haunting music.) Just announced for the Cannes...

Sundance TV Releases New HAP AND LEONARD Photos

Earlier today, The Wrap released a wave of photos from Hap And Leonard, its upcoming series. Set to premiere on Sundance TV in March, the beloved Joe R. Lansdale adaptation will focus on the misadventures of Hap (James Purefoy) and Leonard (Michael Kenneth...

Watch Now: HAP AND LEONARD Teaser Promises Southern Shenanigans

Earlier today, the brand-new Hap and Leonard teaser dropped to promote the forthcoming series from Sundance TV. Based off the best-selling books from author Joe R. Lansdale (Cold in July, Bubba Ho-Tep), the series is slated to premiere in March 2016.Starring Christina...

Fantasia 2015 Review: DARK PLACES, An Affecting Autopsy Of The 1980s Satanic Panic

1985. In a rural community of Kansas there was a young teenager named Ben Day (Tye Sheridan channelling Ezra Miller) who was very into the punk rock outfit The Misfits. He filled his sketchbooks with black-inked antichrist art, and was accused...

HAP AND LEONARD: MAD MEN's Christina Hendricks Joins The Cast

My love for Joe R. Lansdale's Hap and Leonard novels (all of his stuff, really) has been expressed many times on these pages already and it is time once again to break out the Dr. Pepper and Vanilla wafers. THR is...

Refn's THE NEON DEMON Begins Its Blood-Guzzling Kill Spree

After working with some intense leading men (Thomas Hardy, Mads Mikkelsen, and Ryan Gosling) Nicolas Winding Refn is giving the ladies a chance to show off some ferocity in his unique brand of genre-bending art house films. The Neon Demon...

THE NEON DEMON: Keanu Reeves And Christina Hendricks Join Refn's Horror Flick

Keanu Reeves and Christina Hendricks have joined the cast of Nicolas Winding Refn's female-centered horror film The Neon Demon, according to Variety. The report also states that Jena Malone and a second Aussie actress, Bella Heathcote, are also part of the...

Cannes 2014 Review: LOST RIVER, Or Ryan Gosling's Memorably Weird Thesis Film

The answer to the question can Ryan Gosling direct is a resounding 'Sort of.' Lost River is an unwieldy mess of a film, all over the place, scatterbrained, entropic. You could even go so far as to call it an...

Dr. Who Joins Ryan Gosling's MONSTER Movie

Matt Smith has nabbed the male lead in Ryan Gosling's How to Catch a Monster, according to Variety. Smith joins Christina Hendricks, Eva Mendes, and Ben Mendelsohn. The film will mark Gosling's directorial debut. The story follows a single mother...

Review: STRUCK BY LIGHTNING, a Subpar Dark Comedy Almost Saved by a Knockout Performance from Allison Janney

For a lot of people, high school was never fun - the bullies, the pimples, and the god awful cafeteria food. For Carson Phillips (Glee's Chris Colfer, who also wrote the film), high school became the death of him. His dad...