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Mark Wahlberg is on an emotional trek across America in the latest trailer for Joe Bell

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Mark Wahlberg is taking time out from the kind of film where he fights a jet with a sword in mid-air (see Infinite – read our review here) and instead embarking on a redemptive walk across America with his son in the latest trailer for Reinaldo Marcus Green’s buzzy drama Joe Bell; take a look […]

Growing up is a beast in the teaser trailer for Pixar’s Red Panda romp Turning Red

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Disney-Pixar once again deals with the kind of trials and tribulations of growing up that have made the likes of Inside Out instant classics, but in the case of Turning Red, the struggle is very much externalised as teenager Mei Lee gets transformed into a giant red panda whenever she feels anxious. Directed by Domee […]

Anna Kendrick to headline psychological thriller Alice, Darling for Lionsgate

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Anna Kendrick is something of a genre chameleon; having navigated science-fiction for Netflix’s Stowaway, been a veteran of musical-comedy thanks to the Pitch Perfect trilogy, and recently been cast in serial-killer quiz show drama Rodney and Cheryl, she has now signed on to headline Lionsgate’s psychological thriller Alice, Darling for first-time feature director Mary Nighy. […]

Warner Bros. to adapt graphic novel Chariot, with Top Gun: Maverick’s Joseph Kosinski set to direct

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With Top Gun: Maverick sat on the runway awaiting its pandemic delayed release this November, director Joseph Kosinski has moved onto his next vehicular-centric project with the news that Warner Bros. are set to adapt the recently published graphic novel Chariot, and want the Oblivion helmer to direct. Based on the graphic novel written by […]

Greta Gerwig to direct Margot Robbie in the Barbie movie

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Greta Gerwig will move from Little Women to an even smaller woman with the news that she’ll officially be directing Margot Robbie in the live-action Barbie movie. A Barbie movie has been remodelled and repackaged at various stages over the past few years, with both Amy Schumer (Trainwreck) and Anne Hathaway (The Hustle) set to take on the […]

It’s blood sucking locusts in the trailer for Netflix horror-thriller The Swarm

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Sadly The Swarm isn’t a remake of clunky 1978 Michael Caine killer-bee movie, but instead a French independent horror-thriller on the dangers of meddling with nature that was selected for International Critics Week at the 2020 Cannes Film Festival, and now it’s heading to Netflix. Directed by Just Philippot, making his feature film debut, The […]

‘The Epic End Begins’ as AMC releases four new teasers for The Walking Dead season 11

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The promotional push for the final season of AMC’s The Walking Dead has started to sprint towards the release date faster than one of Danny Boyle’s infected, and AMC have added to it by releasing four new promotional teasers for what they’re calling an “epic end” to the decade long phenomenon, and you can watch […]

Fear takes a new form in the trailer for American Horror Stories

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FX have debuted the trailer and a brand new poster for their twisted anthology series American Horror Stories, Ryan Murphy’s spin-off from his own award-winning American Horror Story. Made up of 16 episodes, each containing their own standalone tale of terror, featuring snake-wielding demons, a revengeful Santa Claus, horned killers and “so many wonderful ways […]

Zachary Levi is Kurt Warner in trailer for NFL biopic American Underdog

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Having headlined spy-series Chuck and DC blockbuster Shazam!, Zachary Levi is used to suiting to up to transform mild-mannered underdogs into superheroes, so while production continues on Fury of the Gods, Lionsgate have released a first look at his upcoming Kurt Warner biopic American Underdog; take a look below…. Based on interviews with Warner and […]