How have you not heard rumours about Bryan Singer, it’s been one of Hollywood’s worst kept secrets for years! Unless you’re being facetious then I’ll just step away haha...

I haven't heard his name in relation to sexual abuse/assault/harassment. This probably makes it all the more shocking that I was not blindsided by the allegations because I'm expecting almost anyone to be linked to historical offences. I think it was Trevor Noah who said he hoped a beloved celebrity was dead when he saw their name trending on Twitter, because the alternative is (from the perspective of a spectator/consumer) possibly worse.

I greatly admire Bryan Singer's filmmaking ability and, like many others recently brought to attention in light of allegations of sexual misconduct and added to those whose offences are more historical, I find myself somewhat torn when separating the artist from his art.

I too thought it was common knowledge about his past allegations, which is why I questioned his dismissal from Bohemian Rhapsody, I wasn’t trying to spread gossip or anything, it was the first thing that sprung to mind when I read Suzis post on the subject.
That’s why I added the video of The Hives song yesterday, not to be smug saying “I told you so”, but saying I “hate” to because it seemed I was right.
Anyway, I think we should leave this now before we clog up the thread again :nod: :focus:

I have to be honest here. Tittle tattle ain't really my thing J. So rumors that I do hear, I tend to ignore or investigate IF I can be bothered. So we shall say synchronicity and draw a veil ...

The Commuter looks like something which has been done before, or at least a blend of themes which have been done before. I try not to make snap judgements based on the trailer, but it's very difficult and my initial thought about this is that it could be thoroughly entertaining or absolutely terrible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDshY43Ol2U

[REC] in an elevator?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN7q2PoVTBo

It's getting to the point now where you have to separate the artist from his art or there will be almost nothing that we can watch for our entertainment, every day it's a new film maker/producer/actor.

Anyway, let's move on!

I've seen some trailers at the cinema recently which really piqued my interest but which I have put on here. This is only because I don't want to sit there with a phone/piece of paper writing them down but found I forgotten them by the time the films are finished! Some of the others are ones I've come across when looking for the YouTube videos or spoken about highly in end of year wrap ups but haven't been released in the UK yet.

Darkest Hour
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtJ60u7SUSw

Lady Bird
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNi_HC839Wo

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jit3YhGx5pU

Dark River
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkoH12rEHrQ

The Shape of Water
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFYWazblaUA

You Were Never Really Here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8oYYg75Qvg

Avengers: Infinity War
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZfuNTqbHE8

I can't wait to see Lady Bird, it's not really a Cult Labs film but it looks fantastic. I'm also hearing really good stuff about Molly's Game which comes out in the new year.

The new Guillermo Del Toro film, I'm trying not to learn anything about it at all and I just want to go and see it blindly. I'm REALLY looking forward to it though, early feedback has been positive.

I realise all these are more mainstream than 'cult' films, but they are likely to appeal to a number of people here. Like you, I've read, seen and heard so many positive things about Lady Bird, and any film with Saoirse Ronan in the lead role is worth watching simply because she is an astonishingly good actor.

One of the more extraordinary things in any of the trailers is Darkest Hour, where I wouldn't know Gary Oldman was playing Winston Churchill from that footage. Apart from the eyes and some mouth movements, he's practically unrecognisable.

The thing about trailers is I hope they don't spoil the film, but everything I've seen recently (Suburbicon as the most obvious example) has been 'misrepresented' by the trailer to such an extent that the film bears little resemblance to the snippet of a collection of scenes I saw a few months previously.

You can tell awards season is approaching when the trailers at the cinema include hard-hitting dramas by seasoned filmmakers with award-winning actors. This isn't a bad thing, just an observation because I've seen the trailer for The Post twice and if it is anywhere as good and enjoyable as Bridge of Spies, the previous Spielberg-Hanks collaboration, it will be well worth watching.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrXlY6gzTTM

Similarly, this adaptation of Journey's End (a play I studied for GCSE English and have seen on the stage) looks to be a powerful film with many respected actors doing what they do best:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLpyaLNfudY

These two look very different as they look likely to be much more fun and 'audience friendly', though Downsizing could be as thought-provoking as either of the two mentioned above. My main hope for Jumanji is that it isn't a huge disappointment which sours my happy memories of the original.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCrBICYM0yM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QKg5SZ_35I

Women!

Not content with 'Doctor Who' and 'Ghostbusters', we've now laid claim to Danny Ocean

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZg72RlYlm4

"The tide has turned and it’s a whole new “Ocean’s” when eight women plan and execute a heist in New York. Oscar winner Sandra Bullock stars in the title role, alongside Oscar winners Cate Blanchett and Anne Hathaway, Mindy Kaling, Sarah Paulson, Awkwafina, with Rihanna and Oscar nominee Helena Bonham Carter. Oscar-nominated filmmaker Gary Ross is directing.

Ross directs from a screenplay he wrote with Olivia Milch (upcoming “Dude”), with Steven Soderbergh and Jon Kilik producing, Michael Tadross, Susan Ekins, Sandra Bullock, Diana Alvarez and Bruce Berman executive producing, and Milch co-producing. Filming is taking place in and around New York City.

Collaborating with Ross behind the scenes are director of photography Eigil Bryld (“In Bruges,” “Not Fade Away”), production designer Alex DiGerlando (“Beasts of the Southern Wild,” HBO’s “True Detective”), editor Juliette Welfling (“Free State of Jones,” “The Hunger Games”), costume designer Sarah Edwards (“Tower Heist,” Showtime’s “Billions”), and composer Nicholas Britell (“The Big Short,” “Free State of Jones”).

The film is set for release in Summer 2018 and will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, and in select territories by Village Roadshow Pictures."

Maybe it’s just that Ocean’s 11 was hardly a classic, or that Bullock is playing Danny’s sister and Matt Damon is in it, but I’m not bothered about this fillm or it’s cast.

Ghostbusters on the other hand. A classic that didn’t need remade, and starring not very funny comedians/actresses.

I'm prepared to be both entertained and disappointed, but I'd rather studios and filmmakers concentrated on increasing female representation behind and in front of the camera rather than remaking films with all-female cast in a way that looks 'gimmicky'.

I thought Star Wars: The Last Jedi was one of the strongest feminist films I've seen in the cinema for a long time; a movie with strong female characters who, in a way which easily passes the Bechtel test, interact with each other about such things as military strategy.

The first trailer...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OCTv47XQpA

Before all you haters make a comment, get in touch with your feminine side and realise that this is going to be f-a-b-u-l-o-u-s!

The first one is woeful so I highly doubt it haha. I don’t mind a musical either as you all know and I’m actually an ABBA fan too, but just no...

I hate Abba with a vengeance.

Don't know why but i enjoyed Mamma Mia! This one again has Amanda Seyfreid and Pierce Brosnan which gives me hope. Sadly Lily James does not.

Same, except I haven’t seen Mamma Mia and I highly doubt I ever will, or any sequel :lol:

ABBA and Elvis are the only two musical acts I absolutely despise, sacrilege as that may be to some members :nod:


Oh, and the ****ing Bee Gees too :lol:

I can happily live my life without Elvis haha

I haven't seen Mamma Mia! That's not an intentional snub, it's just something I have made the effort to go out of my way to watch, or have caught it on TV at any point. Even though I like some Abba, I severely doubt I'll see the sequel.

Total agreement about Abba and the Bee Gees! Hate them. Elvis not so bad, don't own any though and i'd never watch any of his films .

It’s mainly because my mum listened to all those 3 all the time when I was growing up (I’ve reluctantly got her a Bee Gees DVD for Christmas, meaning I’ve gotta adjust my recommendations from Amazon :lol: ), whereas my dad used to play a lot of Bob Dylan (hence the reason my eldest son is called Dylan), Roy Orbison, Kinks, Hollies etc on the rare occasions he had control of the record player :lol:

Interesting cameos too.

didn't someone come forward years ago about inappropriate behaviour?

Watched the trailer when I saw Last Jedi...did you? and I thought they might call it The Train instead.

Yeah, he was sued a few years back, but let’s not get into this :focus:

No, I saw it before then. I think it preceded Battle of the Sexes or Suburbicon but I've seen it twice so it may have been before The Last Jedi as well.

17 horror movies to look forward to in 2018 | Yahoo Movies

2017 has been one of the best year for horror films ever – with Get Out topping many critics’ best of the year lists, and IT breaking all sorts of box office records.

Next year looks a bit more intriguing – with indie originals mixed with the return of some major franchises (basically, Blumhouse look like they’re going to have a VERY busy 2018).

Here’s 17 of the freshest horror movies that’ll be scaring us long into the new year.

1. Insidious: The Last Key – 5 January

The creative minds behind the hit Insidious trilogy return for Insidious: The Last Key. The franchise welcomes back standout Lin Shaye as Dr. Elise Rainier, the brilliant parapsychologist faces her most fearsome and personal haunting yet: in her own family home.

A direct sequel to Insidious: Chapter 3 (which was a prequel), The Last Key sees Elise Rainier investigating supernatural disturbances in a New Mexico family home, a home which also happens to be the house she grew up in – which takes her deeper into The Further. Ooooh, scary.

Starring Lin Shaye, Angus Sampson, Leigh Whannell, Josh Stewart, and Caitlin Gerard, The Last Key will be released in the UK in January.

2. Mom And Dad – 19 January

With a killer premise – a mysterious virus causes parents to turn on their kids – and a cool cast (including Nic Cage and Selma Blair as the titular mum and dad), Mom And Dad is a gleeful throwback to ‘80s cult classics such as Parents and Heathers, with a jet-black sense of humour mixed in with the horror. It’s received glowing reviews from the festival circuit, expect similar praise when it lands on UK shores.

3. The Purge: The Island – 4 July

The fourth Purge movie is technically the first – because it’s the first prequel of the franchise, telling the tale of how the Purge tradition started, tracking the very first event (which is reportedly taking place on Staten Island), and exploring how America reached a point where they decided letting people kill each other for one night every year was a good idea. With a Purge TV series also on the way, expect to hear a lot about this franchise in 2018.

4. The Midnight Man – 19 January

This low-budget indie might look like a collection of tired horror tropes, but there must be something interesting about the script, as it’s attracted genre legends Robert Englund (A Nightmare On Elm Street) and Lin Shaye (Insidious) to join the party.

The plot involves a cursed board game that launches the titular Midnight Man at anyone foolish enough to play it. So far, so Ouija. Let’s hope it’s more like the (brilliant) prequel, Ouija: Origin Of Evil.

5. Strangers: Prey At Night – 9 March

A family’s road trip takes a dangerous turn when they arrive at a secluded mobile home park to stay with some relatives and find it mysteriously deserted.

It seems hard to believe, but it’s been ten years since the first Strangers movie terrified us all. A sequel’s been in the works for almost as long, but it finally arrives in early 2018, starring Christina Hendricks as an unsuspecting mother who’s visited by the masked weirdos who made the original such an uncomfortable watch. It’s directed by Johannes Roberts, who’s a bit hit and miss, but with his most recent run including 47 Metres Down and The Other Side Of The Door, there are enough reasons to be tentatively excited about this one.

6. Unsane – 23 March

Speaking of films that could definitely go either way, Steven Soderbergh’s first foray into horror sounds VERY interesting.

Shot in secret on an iPhone, Unsane features a cast to kill for, including Claire Foy, Jay Pharoah, Juno Temple, and Amy Irving.

The premise sounds a tiny bit cliche (involving a woman being committed to a mental institution and confronting her worst fear, which may or may not be a delusion) especially as it sounds a lot like John Carpenter’s The Ward. Given the talent behind the (iPhone) camera, it could also be the next mother!

7. A Quiet Place – 6 April

Looking like a cross between It Comes At Night and Don’t Breathe, this Paramount thriller looks like it could be the best film ever released on Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes label (well, if the intense trailer’s to be believed, anyway). Following a family who are forced to live in silence thanks to the presence of a supernatural creature that’s attracted to noise, the film brings together real-life couple John Krasinski and Emily Blunt for the first time, for Krasinski’s directorial debut.

8. The New Mutants – 13 April

Okay, so this is technically a X-Men movie, but – continuing the Marvel Cinematic Universe tradition of mixing in different genres to their comic-book films – this is also a full-blown horror flick. The trailer’s packed with gore-flick tropes, to the extent that if you told us Freddy Krueger’s suddenly replaced Professor X as the headmaster of the X-kids, we’d believe you.

It features a cast almost entirely made up of ‘next big things,’ including Anya Taylor-Joy (The Witch), Maisie Williams (Game Of Thrones), and Charlie Heaton (Stranger Things), who all seem destined for long movie careers (even if the franchise possibly doesn’t, now Disney’s bought Fox). The story involves a group of young mutants held in a secret facility fighting to save themselves, after one of their powers start to make their environment feel a bit like a haunted house.

9. The Little Stranger – 31 August

Based on the 2009 gothic novel written by Sarah Waters (Tipping The Velvet), The Little Stranger sounds like it could be the next Woman In Black. Taking place in the 1940s, the story follows a country doctor named Faraday (Domhnall Gleeson) who makes friends with an eccentric family of declining fortunes who run a very old estate that’s crumbling around them, an estate that once employed Faraday’s housemaid mother…

10. Winchester: The House That Ghosts Built – 2 March

CBS Films The story of Sarah Winchester and the Winchester Mystery House is bizarre, intriguing, and spooky as hell. Though it’s been a fairly well-known tale for some time, it’s attracted more attention due to the upcoming thriller Winchester: The House That Ghosts Built, starring Helen Mirren as the titular character.

The Spierig Brothers follow up their Saw sequel Jigsaw with a film that also looks like it wants to cash in on The Woman In Black’s success several years too late. But, it does star Helen Mirren, so colour us intrigued. Mirren stars as Sarah Winchester, whose husband William and their child died suddenly, leading the widow to believe she’s cursed. To fix her malady, Winchester builds the Winchester Mystery House, under advisement from a medium….

11. Truth Or Dare – 27 April

Another game-based horror flick, but this one’s from Blumhouse (the studio behind Insidious, The Conjuring, Sinister and Get Out) so you can be fairly sure it’ll be scary.

Directed by Jeff Wadlow and starring Lucy Hale, Tyler Posey, and Sophia Taylor Ali as college students who are punished for lying / not doing dares during the titular game.

12. The Nun – 13 July

Another Blumhouse prequel to one of their most established franchises, The Nun is technically the fifth Conjuring movie, spun-off from The Conjuring 2. Produced by Peter Safran and James Wan, who are keen to expand the Conjuring cinematic universe. “We have a board that we created that has what we hope will ultimately be our series of movies,” Safran said. “We have it in chronological order, so we can keep track of where it all happens.”

And it’ll all start (chronologically) with The Nun, and the story of a priest who investigates a nun’s suicide and finds himself fact-to-face with the demon Valak as a result.

13. Halloween – 19 October

Halloween 2018 just got kicked up a notch. It was recently announced that Jamie Lee Curtis will be reprising the iconic role of Laurie Strode in Halloween, another reboot of the beloved horror franchise due out on Oct.

There aren’t many more intriguing premises than Halloween’s in 2018. Originally thought to be a reboot of the John Carpenter original, Halloween’s actually a sequel to the first film – one that takes place in an alternate reality where not only did the original sequels not happen, but the first film ended in a different way.

Add in the fact that it’s written by David Gordon Green and Danny McBride (directed by Green) who are better known for their comedies, and this is a film that’ll stay intriguing right up until its October release.

Oh, and did we mention this is Blumhouse’s first foray into taking on an established franchise? Curiouser and curiouser.

14. Overlord – 26 October

Details are predictably vague on Overlord (it is a JJ Abrams production, after all), with some people wondering if the project’s another stealth Cloverfield sequel. But Bad Robot are describing it as a horror movie, so who are we to argue? What we definitely do know is it’s a war movie – it takes place in 1944 on D-Day eve, and follows a group of American paratroopers, dropped behind enemy lines to carry out a mission crucial to the invasion’s success. But, as they approach, they begin to realise there’s more going on in the Nazi-occupied village than a military operation.

15. Suspiria – TBC

It’s been talked about for a decade, but in 2018 we’ll finally get the Suspiria remake, but don’t expect it to look anything like the bold original – director Luca Guadagnino’s film is rumored to be walking down a very different path to Dario Argento’s 1977 film. It stars Dakota Johnson, Chloë Grace Moretz, Mia Goth, and Tilda Swinton (as an old man!) in the story of a young dancer who stumbles across a witch’s plot.

16. Slaughterhouse Rulez – 7 September

The first film from Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s new production company, Slaughterhouse Rulez takes place in a fancy British boarding school that becomes a bloody battleground when a mysterious sinkhole appears at a nearby fracking site, releasing unspeakable horror into the local area.

Starring Peaky Blinders’ Finn Jones and featuring cameos by Pegg and Frost, we imagine this will mix comedy, drama with plenty of gore.

17. Ghost Stories – 5 October

Based on the hit West End play, Ghost Stories blends several individual spook tales together, each scarier than the last, to create a horror experience unlike any other. Starring Andy Nyman (recently seen cameoing in The Last Jedi), Martin Freeman and Paul Whitehouse all at the top of their game – this is definitely on to watch (between your fingers) out for.

When I worked at Blockbusters we were forced to have Mama Mia on a loop the whole week on the stores TV's / Sound systems. I would recommend implementing the same thing at Guantanamo Bay.

Oh and Dear!!

8 years too late. Looks like shite.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySy8mcceTno

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Very bad timing

There has just been a murder case in America where the two 12 year old school girls stabbed another 12 year old because of 'the Slender Man'

SLENDER MAN STABBERS: What is the Slender Man stabbing case, who are Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser and why did they stab Payton Leutner? | The Sun

Think you need to start reading your click bait articles, that case was from 2014 and the victim survived the attack, the two attackers were sentenced last month. Funny how this comes out around the same time as publicity for the film started....

I remember that happening. I couldn’t believe it when their defence was ‘the slender man made us do it’ haha

Yeah, I remember reading about it too, idiots

Speaking of slender man, I just seen this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgq3k2qCZgg

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??

I did read the article, and I noted:

and you yourself noted

so you acknowledged it was a recent thing

The phrases "very bad timing" and "just been a murder" indicate, at least to me, that the incident took place in the last couple of weeks, not nearly four years ago.

Well 2 things: first of all the father of one of the 2 girls has been voicing his views
https://www.theguardian.com/film/201...ly-distasteful
And secondly there is already a petition to stop the making of this film

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This hasn't been received well by most critics, but Stephen King likes it.

https://www.cult-labs.com/forums/att...1&d=1515887943

Trailer for the Korean film 'Psychokinesis', the new film from director Sang Ho Yeon, who made the highly rated 'Train to Busan'

It's interesting to note that the guys cigarette has been blurred out 0.11 - 0.15