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Movie Review – Whalefall (2026)

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Whalefall, 2026. Directed by Brian Duffield Starring Austin Abrams, Josh Brolin, Elisabeth Shue, John Ortiz, Jane Levy, and Emily Rudd.SYNOPSIS: Following the death of his father, Jay Gardiner (Austin Abrams) goes diving off the central Coast of California in search of his remains, but is swallowed by a massive sperm whale.American author Kurt Vonnegut famously said that […]

Fred Hechinger and Ebon Moss-Bachrach star in the trailer for Andrew Haigh’s A Long Winter

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Mubi has released the trailer for 45 Years and All of Strangers director Andrew Haigh’s latest drama A Long Winter, which focuses on a small family living in the Colorado mountains whose life is turned upside down when their mother disappears during the first blizzard of the season.Written and directed by Haigh, the glacial character […]

2026 BFI London Film Festival Review – Ink

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Ink, 2026. Directed by Danny Boyle Starring Jack O’Connell, Guy Pearce, Claire Foy, Jonathan Hyde, Blake Harrison, Brian Gleeson, Angus Imrie, Patrick Kennedy, Lucy Russell, and Christopher Fulford.SYNOPSIS:In 1969, as rising media tycoon acquires the daily newspaper “The Sun,” his partnership with editor Larry Lamb turns the paper into Britain’s most influential tabloid.Danny Boyle moves from […]

2026 BFI London Film Festival Review – Ray Gunn

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Ray Gunn, 2026. Directed by Brad Bird.  Starring Sam Rockwell, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Waits, Matt Berry, Bobby Cannavale, Michelle Rodriguez, Matt Jones, Aasif Mandvi, Alan Tudyk, and Kathryn Hunter.SYNOPSIS: In Metropia, a gigantic city in an alternate future, private eye Raymond Gunn is drawn into a case involving aliens, murder, and a multimedia star named Venus Nova.Brad […]

Jessica Rothe and Jane Levy are stranded and stalked in the trailer for Blumhouse slasher River

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Universal Pictures and Blumhouse has released the trailer for River, their Midnight Madness Toronto International Film Festival breakout that stars Scream Queens Jessica Rothe (Happy Death Day) and Jane Levy (Evil Dead) as siblings stuck on a broken boat as a serial killer stalks them from the bank.  Written and directed by feature film debutant […]

2026 BFI London Film Festival Review – Bunker

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Bunker, 2026. Directed by Florian Zeller Starring Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Stephen Graham, Mark Gatiss, and Patrick Schwarzenegger.SYNOPSIS:Follows a married couple of 17 years. The husband is an architect who accepts a controversial project to build a survivalist bunker for a tech billionaire. This decision leads his wife to question their marriage.The Father and The Son-director […]

2026 BFI London Film Festival Review – Godzilla Minus Zero

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Godzilla Minus Zero, 2026.Directed by Takashi Yamazaki Starring Ryunosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Yuki Yamada, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Sakura Ando, and Miou Tanaka.SYNOPSIS:Set in 1949, the Shikishima family confronts a fresh catastrophe two years their previous ordeal with the legendary monster.How do you follow in the Kaiju-sized footsteps left by 2023’s stupendous Godzilla Minus One? […]

2026 BFI London Film Festival Review – Wildwood

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Wildwood, 2026. Directed by Travis Knight. Starring Carey Mulligan, Jacob Tremblay, Richard E. Grant, Awkwafina, Amandla Stenberg, Tom Waits, Charlie Day, Blythe Danner, Arthur Knight, Maya Erskine, Jake Johnson, Tantoo Cardinal, Rob Delaney, Jemaine Clement, Marc Evan Jackson, Len Cariou, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Angela Bassett, and Mahershala Ali.SYNOPSIS:The adventures of Prue McKeel as she sets off to […]

The Social Reckoning is unfriended at the box office as Other Mommy scares up $27.5 million debut

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The weekend box office was a battle between one movie focusing on an evil being attempting to convince people that they are human, and the Other Mommy. Ba dum tish. Despite no advanced previews and terrible exit-polling (D+ CinemaScore), Rob Savage’s Other Mommy overperformed at the North American box office to the tune of $27.5 million. […]