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A direct sequel to Paul Verhoeven’s RoboCop is in development

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Franchise retcon is all the rage at the moment; Shane Black is doing it with The Predator, and the next installment of the Terminator franchise will erase Rise of the Machine onwards. So it comes as little surprise that another iconic 80s movie will be having its memory wiped with the news that RoboCop could […]

Here’s where to watch the live Oscar nominations this Tuesday

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This Tuesday 23rd January, the nominations for the 90th Academy Awards will be announced. We’ve had the Golden Globe Awards, Producers Guild Awards and more recently the Screen Actors Guild Awards, to help you draw up a list of favourites, but as of 1:22pm GMT tomorrow we’ll know exactly how many nominations Three Billboards Outside […]

Teaser trailer for Danny McBride’s surprise Crocodile Dundee sequel

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The last installment of the Crocodile Dundee franchise was released in 2001, and was notable only for the rubbish title (Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles) and a cameo from Mike Tyson. So the news that Danny McBride will star in a sequel to be released this summer is as unexpected as a boomerang actually coming […]

Rian Johnson offers brilliant Twitter response to Star Wars: The Last Jedi force projection criticism

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Officially the most divisive Star Wars movie of the saga, Rian Johnson has spent the last few days divulging information about creative choices made on Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Whether that’s questions about Rey’s parentage, Snoke’s fate, or what happened to the Knights of Ren, he has answered them in a manner that has fully […]

Duncan Jones reveals release date for Netflix’s Mute

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While there’s some disappointment that Mute, the new film from Warcraft and Source Code director Duncan Jones, will be bypassing cinemas and heading straight to Netflix, it does mean that you’ll get to watch it sooner than you might think. Jones has used his Twitter account to reveal the streaming debut date of his Alexander Skarsgård […]

The X-Files Season 11 Episode 3 Review – ‘Plus One’

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Matt Rodgers reviews the third episode of The X-Files season 11… In an episode bookended by a playful David Duchovny at his smirking best, Plus One is season eleven’s first freak-of-the-week hour-long, and a return to scripting duties for series creator, Chris Carter. This feels like one of those mid-season filler episodes from peak X-Files […]

First trailer for Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay

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As the DCEU live-action world attempts to get its house in order, which includes production on Gavin O’Connor’s upcoming Suicide Squad 2, Warner Bros. are treating us to an R-rated animated installment of their anarchic shenanigans, and have released the debut trailer for Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay, which you can watch here… “Suicide Squad: […]

Stunning new trailer for alien invasion movie Before We Vanish

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Asian cinema continues to be at the forefront of genre defining efforts. South Korea gave us Train to Busan in 2016, and now, having wowed audiences on the festival circuit, it looks as though Japanese science fiction effort, Before We Vanish, will be the next must-see big budget import. See for yourself by watching the […]

Is Bill Condon’s Bride of Frankenstein being resurrected with Gal Gadot?

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Last years microcosmic lifespan of Universal’s Dark Universe, halted by the failure of The Mummy, put paid to a series of run-before-you-could-walk spin-off movies; The Invisible Man, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, and The Wolf Man. Appropriately enough, the only film that appears to have been brought back to life is Bill Condon’s Bride […]