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Keira Knightley’s animated World War II drama Charlotte gets a trailer

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Not to decry all of the CGI super furry animal animations we get on the release conveyer belt these days, but it’s always nice when something different comes along, and Charlotte appears to be just that. Tahir Rana and Éric Warin’s animated drama tells the story of a young German-Jewish woman –  voiced by Keira […]

Brad Pitt’s Bullet Train delayed to fill release date vacated by Black Adam

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Over the last couple of years the movie release calendar has been a little like looking up at the arrivals and departures board of a busy inner-city train station, so it perhaps fitting that David Leitch’s Bullet Train is going to have to wait just outside the platform for a couple of weeks in order […]

Korean body swap thriller Spiritwalker gets an action-packed trailer

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If you think you’ve seen every iteration of the body-swap formula, think again, because Yoon Jae-Keun’s Spiritwalker is here to take the Freaky from Friday in an action packed blend of fantasy and thriller which sees our memory-loss protagonist regaining consciousness every twelve hours, but each time waking up in a new body. Check out […]

Godzilla vs Kong sequel reportedly set to shoot later this year

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Godzilla vs. Kong was one of the first blockbusters to wade into the ruin of the pandemic-era cinemagoing landscape, so its global haul of $468M, despite being available day-and-date as part of Warner Media’s 2021 release strategy, was a resounding success. So it comes as no surprise that a sequel will reportedly go before the […]

UPDATE: Darth Maul was cut from early Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi scripts

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You might be aware that some people found things to criticise about 1999’s Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, but that doesn’t apply to two characters who faced off as John Williams’ Duel of the Fates scorched itself into Star Wars lore; Ewan McGregor’s Obi-Wan Kenobi and Ray Park’s Darth Maul, and now news has emerged […]

Chloé Zhao opens up about Eternals’ divisiveness

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Now that the water around the fallen Celestial statues is a lot calmer, Eternals director Chloé Zhao has been speaking exclusively to Empire Magazine about the divided critical reception to her unique entry into the IP heavy world of the MCU. Eternals was always going to be a challenging film to gauge; featuring no recognisable […]

Mike Myers is back playing multiple characters in teaser for Netflix comedy series The Pentaverate

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The last time we saw Mike Myers he was unrecognisable under prosthetics in Bohemian Rhapsody, and now he’s the master-of-disguise once again in the first teaser for his star-studded Netflix comedy series The Pentaverate. Not only will Myers mark his return to a starring role for the first time since 2008’s The Love Guru by playing […]

HBO unveils first look at Rose Leslie and Theo James in The Time Traveler’s Wife teaser

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Following 2009’s rather flat big-screen attempt at adapting Audrey Niffenegger’s book The Time Traveler’s Wife, HBO has unveiled the first teaser for their six-part take on the best-selling time-travel weepie. Adapted by Sherlock scribe Steven Moffat, with all six episodes directed by Game of Thrones and The Pacific helmer David Nutter, the show stars Rose Leslie (Game […]

Liam Neeson stars as a hitman with Alzheimer’s in trailer for Memory

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Academy Award winner Liam Neeson has continued to churn out hitman related action films with diminishing returns, even firing off a trio of pandemic era releases – The Marksman, The Ice Road, and Blacklight – to keep fans of his very particular set of skills happy, and now he’s at it again in Martin GoldenEye […]