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Claire Foy talks Lisbeth Salander at The Girl in the Spider’s Web photocall

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Sony Pictures Entertainment have rounded up the cast of The Girl in the Spider’s Web for a Stockholm photocall, the video of which you can watch below…The movie, based upon David Lagercrantz’s bestselling Millennium novel (the first not to be penned by Stieg Larsson), is being directed by Fede Alvarez (Don’t Breathe) from a script […]

Kyle Chandler replacing George Clooney in Catch-22

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According to Variety, there has been a shuffling of the pack over on Hulu’s upcoming TV adaptation of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, with Friday Night Lights and Bloodline’s Kyle Chandler replacing George Clooney as Colonel Cathcart, and joining Hugh Laurie (House) and Christopher Abbott (The Sinner) in the spy thriller.Clooney, who is directing the opening two episodes, as […]

East End Film Festival Movie Review – The Isle (2018)

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The Isle, 2018Directed by Matthew Butler HartStarring Conleth Hill, Alex Hassell, Tori Butler Hart, Fisayo Akinade, Alix Wilton Regan, Joe BannisterSYNOPSIS:When three survivors of a shipwreck off the coast of 1840’s Scotland wash up on a sparsely populated island, they’re taken in by the residents before they can be rescued by the mainland boat. While […]

Take a look at Bao in a teaser for the new Pixar short film

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Pixar are starting to ratchet up the marketing for the return of The Incredibles this summer, and with that comes a brand new short film, Bao, which the studio have just tweeted a first look tease for. Get a taste of #Bao, our upcoming short opening ahead of #Incredibles2 June 15. pic.twitter.com/Yw17N2pNZX — Disney•Pixar (@DisneyPixar) […]

East End Film Festival Movie Review – Charismata (2018)

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Charismata, 2018Directed by Andy Collier and Toor MianStarring Sarah Beck Mather, Jamie Satterthwaite, Adonis Anthony, Johnny Vivash, Ross Mullan, Sean KnoppSYNOPSIS:When a troubled police detective (Sarah Beck Mather) gets embroiled in the case of a potential serial killer, whose motivation appears to be driven by Satanism, she struggles to maintain her sanity within a male […]

East End Film Festival Movie Review – West of Sunshine (2018)

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West of Sunshine, 2018Directed by Jason Raftopoulos Starring Damian Hill, Ty Perham, Arthur Angel, Kat Stewart, Faye SmytheSYNOPSIS:Jim (Damian Hill) has been given a deadline to pay back a substantial debt to a dangerous loan shark or face the consequences. His escape plan consists of backing a race horse, borrowing off friends, and dodging phone […]

East End Film Festival Movie Review – Waiting for You (2018)

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Waiting for You, 2018Directed by Charles Garrad Starring Colin Morgan, Fanny Ardant, Audrey Bastien, Adelkrim BahloulSYNOPSIS:When Paul’s (Colin Morgan) father utters some deathbed clues to a past his son knew nothing about, it triggers a journey of discovery that leads him to a house situated amongst the foothills of the French countryside. Here lives Madeleine […]

East End Film Festival Movie Review – Sand and Blood (2018)

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Sand and Blood, 2018Directed by Matthias Krepp and Angelika SpangSYNOPSIS:Using anonymous testimonies from refugees who’ve fled to Austria, Sand and Blood tells the personal tales that have emerged from the Iraq and Syria conflicts, all supported by amateur footage and archive from the very heart of these their wartorn paradise.When it comes to rolling news […]

East End Film Festival Movie Review – Hippopotamus (2018)

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Hippopotamus, 2018Directed by Edward A. Palmer Starring Ingvild Deila, Tom Lincoln, Jonathan Cobb, Stuart MortimerSYNOPSIS:When Ruby (Ingvild Deila) wakes from a dream, she finds herself in a sterile basement, with her knees bandaged, unable to walk, and no recollection of who she is, or how she got there. When she comes face-to-face with her kidnapper […]