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Wubba Lubba Dub-Dub! Rick and Morty Season 5 finale will be an hour long, but you’ll have to wait for it….

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Wubba Lubba Dub-Dub! It’s a good news/bad news scenario for fans of Rick and Morty, with the announcement that the season 5 finale will be the first hour long episode in the show’s history, but unfortunately you’ll have to wait a little while for it. The fifth season of Rick and Morty, which has hit […]

Watch Michael Keaton, Michael Stuhlbarg, Peter Sarsgaard, Will Poulter, Kaitlyn Dever, and Rosario Dawson in Dopesick trailer

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Created by The Handmaid’s Tale’s Danny Strong, and based on Beth Macy’s New York Times best-selling book Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors and the Drug Company that Addicted America, Hulu have pulled out all the stops for their star-studded Opioid addiction drama Dopesick. Starring Michael Stuhlbarg, Peter Sarsgaard, Will Poulter, Kaitlyn Dever, John Hoogenakker, Rosario Dawson, and […]

The Suicide Squad disappoints with $26.5 million opening weekend

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James Gunn’s much ballyhooed reimagining of The Suicide Squad was unleashed at the North American box-office over the weekend where it underwhelmed with a below-par opening of $26.5M from 4,002 theatres. The $185M DC antihero blockbuster holds a 92% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and was received favourably by audiences, but it failed to match the […]

All-female Chronicle sequel in the works at 20th Century Studios

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Josh Trank’s low-budget found-footage sci-fi flick Chronicle grossed $126M at the worldwide box-office back in 2012, and now producer John Davis has confirmed that they’re in the process of developing a female-fronted sequel. Chronicle was the tale of three high school friends – played by Michael B. Jordan, Dane DeHaan, and Alex Russell – who […]

HBO Max passes on J.J. Abrams’ The Shining spin-off series Overlook

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J.J. Abrams isn’t having much luck with his small screen Stephen King adaptations, because following the cancellations of Castle Rock and 11.22.63, HBO Max has now decided to pass on Bad Robot’s The Shining spin-off series Overlook. One of three projects that Abrams was developing for the streaming service, alongside Justice League Dark and Duster, […]

Clint Eastwood is back in the saddle as a washed-up rodeo star in the trailer for Cry Macho

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At the age of 91, undisputed legend of cinema Clint Eastwood is still working both sides of the camera, and now Warner Bros. has released the trailer his latest slice of redemptive drama in the form of Cry Macho, the tale of a washed-up horse breeder who travels to the Mexican border to settle a […]

Rob Savage’s follow-up to lockdown horror The Host is titled Dashcam

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In what has been a particularly trying time for the film industry, one of the success stories to emerge from the past 18-months was the Zoom party poltergeist horror Host (read our ★★★★ review here), inventively directed during the first lockdown by Rob Savage. Well, instead of enjoying their triumph during the subsequent lockdowns, Savage, […]

It’s last man standing in the trailer for the long-awaited Y: The Last Man adaptation

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A screen adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan’s lauded graphic novel Y: The Last Man has been kicking around development hell for what seems like an eternity, and even this eagerly awaited small-screen translation has had its fair share of production hiccups, but now the post apocalyptic tale of one man and his monkey is heading […]