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Jacob Elordi to star in The Executioner’s Song adaptation

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Following his role in Ridley Scott’s adaptation of The Dog Stars, Jacob Elordi is set to star in yet another book-to-screen translation with Norman Mailer’s 1979 Pulitzer-winning The Executioner’s Song. Per Deadline’s report the Frankenstein Academy Award nominee will also produce the adaptation for United Artists. Elordi will play Gary Gilmore, whose life, crimes, and death by […]

Trailer for animated watercolour wonder Iron Boy

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Sony Pictures Classics has released the trailer for the Cannes Film Festival: Un Certain Regard – Special Jury Prize-winning animation Iron Boy. Directed by Louis Clichy from a screenplay he co-wrote with Franck Salomé, we called Iron Boy “a painterly, touching experience” and a film “as strong as iron with its emotions, humour, and visual language” […]

Any scandal is fair game in new trailer for Danny Boyle’s Ink

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Hot off the press, StudioCanal has released the official trailer for Danny Boyle’s Ink, the Trainspotting director’s dramatised account of the rise of British tabloid newspaper The Sun.We called Ink a “a very good marriage of directorial style and subject matter” with a “superb central performance from Jack O’Connell” in our ★★★ review (which you […]

It’s Julianne Moore versus Paul Giamatti in the trailer for Jesse Eisenberg’s The Debut

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A24 has released a new trailer for The Debut, Jesse Eisenberg’s critically-acclaimed drama that pits Julianne Moore against Paul Giamatti in the world of small-town amateur dramatics.We called The Debut “a balance between hilarity and heartbreak” with “with two terrific lead roles” in our ★★★★ review (which you can read here). Written and directed by […]

Replicants rule the world in the final Blade Runner 2099 trailer

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Prime Video has released the final trailer for their highly anticipated sequel-series Blade Runner 2099, which follows Hunter Schafer’s Cora as she teams up with a dying Replicant named Olwen, played by Michelle Yeoh, in order to try and track down a runaway who could be the key to bringing down the City. Building upon the […]

Movie Review – Prima Facie (2026)

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Prima Facie, 2026. Directed by Susanna White Starring Cynthia Erivo, Daniel Ings, Simon Russell Beale, Elizabeth Dulau, and Noma DumezweniSYNOPSIS:Follows Tessa, an ambitious defence lawyer. She expertly represents her clients, including those who are accused of sexual assault. However, she finds out that the law does not provide justice after being raped by a co-worker.Prima Facie […]

Netflix releases mysterious teaser for Other Worlds: A Stranger Things Adventure

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Netflix are continuing the legacy of their flagship small-screen blockbuster series Stranger Things by dropping an announcement trailer for the prequel show Other Worlds: A Stranger Things Adventure. Set in the 1950s, decades before the Stranger Things gang uncovered a supernatural conspiracy in the small town of Hawkins, Indiana. The new show also predates the […]

It’s a family affair in the trailer for The Angry Birds Movie 3

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Paramount Pictures has hatched open a brand new trailer for The Angry Birds Movie 3, the latest installment in their gaming app turned ornithological animated franchise. Directed by John Rice (Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe), The Angry Birds flock of voice actors includes Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Emma Myers, Rachel Bloom, Walker Scobell, Danny McBride, […]

Jason Statham and Guy Ritchie to return to the London underworld with Dogfight

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Another week, another Guy Ritchie movie to announce. This one’s slightly more exciting in that it once again reunites the director with his Lock Stock and Snatch star Jason Statham. According to The Hollywood Reporter they will team up for Ritchie’s Netflix movie Dogfight, which is described by the streaming giants as “a stylish revenge actioner […]