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Charlie Day and Jenny Slate to headline Amazon’s ensemble rom-com I Want You Back

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It’s been a while since we had an ensemble comedy in a similar vein to Love, Actually, He’s Just Not That Into You, or Valentines Day, but it appears that Amazon are attempting to do just that with I Want You Back, and have tapped It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia‘s Charlie Day and Venom’s Jenny […]

Netflix releases trailer for Sherlock Holmes shared universe show The Irregulars

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“A darkness has come to London. Something moves through the streets like the shadow of a nightmare…” That’s the ominous warning at the start of this first look trailer for Netflix’s world of Sherlock Holmes series The Irregulars. Starring Thaddea Graham, Darci Shaw, Jojo Macari, McKell David, Harrison Osterfield, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Royce Pierreson, and Clarke […]

Movie Review – Pelé (2021)

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Pelé, 2021 Directed by David Tryhorn and Ben Nicholas. SYNOPSIS: Pelé chronicles the life of the Brazilian football player, Edson Arantes do Nascimento – better known as Pelé. The documentary looks back at the extraordinary period that Pelé, the only player to win three World Cup titles, went from a young superstar in 1958 to […]

Jennifer Garner to body swap again for Netflix comedy Family Leave

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Jennifer Garner is already part of the best body-swap comedy conversation, having headlined 2004’s 13 Going on 30, and now according to Deadline she’s set to produce and star in Family Leave, Netflix’s adaptation of Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s best-selling book Bedtime For Mommy, which will see her doing the switch all-over-again. The film centers on […]

Neil Patrick Harris speaks about shooting The Matrix 4

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One of the many films which has had to negotiate the global pandemic is the fourth eagerly awaited installment of The Matrix franchise, which has been globe-trotting in order to wrap and meet its December 2021 release date, and one of the new additions to the cast, Neil Patrick Harris, has been speaking about what […]

Shudder’s time-loop home-invasion horror Lucky gets a trailer

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Ahead of it’s March 4th bow on Shudder, the first trailer for time-loop horror Lucky has been released. The movie, which was written by its star Brea Grant, is seemingly a cross between Happy Death Day, Ready or Not, with a little bit of Get Out thrown in the mix. Hopefully it’s even half as […]

HBO Max’s Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai announces voice cast and early season 2 renewal

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It appears someone over at HBO Max has spilt water on the box marked Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai, because news is popping faster than it takes a Gremlin to cook in the microwave. Not only have they announced the voice cast for the forthcoming animated show, but the prequel-series has also been given an […]

Olivia Wilde praises Harry Styles for his approach to Don’t Worry Darling

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It has been quite the production on Olivia Wilde’s sophomore film as a director, Don’t Worry Darling, what with having to shoot during the current pandemic, and firing Shia LaBeouf due to her “zero asshole policy”, but now that filming has wrapped on the 1950s set phycological drama, she has followed up praise for Florence […]

Zack Snyder working on a ‘faithful retelling’ of King Arthur

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With the Justice League saga coming to the end of its long journey this March, and Zack Snyder having recently revealed that Warner Bros. has “no intertest or appetite” in a follow-up, it appears that the director of 300 might be planning to return to the battlefield with a “faithful retelling” of the legend of […]