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Movie Review – Disappearance at Clifton Hill (2020)

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Disappearance at Clifton Hill, 2020. Directed by Albert Shin Starring Tuppence Middleton, Hannah Gross, Marie-Josée Croze , Eric Johnson, David Cronenberg, Colin McLeod, Andy McQueen, Noah Reid, Dan Lett, and Aaron Poole SYNOPSIS: When Abby (Tuppence Middleton) returns to her hometown of Niagara Falls, echoes from her childhood trigger memories that could help solve a […]

First look at Studio Ghibli’s first CGI outing Aya and the Witch

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Through a combination of Hayao Miyazaki’s retirement and the studio taking a brief pause in production, legendary animation house Studio Ghibli haven’t sprinkled their special brand of magic since 2014’s When Marnie Was There. That’s all about to change with Gorō Miyazaki’s Aya to Majo (Aya and the Witch), and now thanks to these stills […]

Will Smith and Antoine Fuqua to team up for slavery drama Emancipation

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Deadline is reporting that Antoine Fuqua and Will Smith are set to work together on Emancipation, a slavery drama based on one of history’s most powerful images, a photograph titled ‘the scourged back’. The scar tissue smothering the back of a runaway plantation slave named Gordon, administered to him on a property owned by John […]

Ben Stiller to direct Oscar Issac in adaptation of Jo Nesbo’s London

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This news is something of a refreshing mystery, but what little we do know about London is that Ben Stiller is set to direct Oscar Issac in an adaptation of the short-story by Headhunters writer Jo Nesbo. The Hollywood Reporter say that Issac bought the rights to the story via his Mad Gene Media company, […]

Jake Gyllenhaal graphic novel adaptation Snow Blind gathers pace

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Originally touted as a potential TV series as far back as 2017, Ollie Masters and Tyler Jenkins’ graphic novel Snow Blind is now at the centre of a lockdown bidding war with Jake Gyllenhaal attached to star. Deadline is reporting that multiple bids have been submitted for the for the property, and that Gustav Möller, […]

Producer Jon Landau spills some Avatar 2 plot details

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James Cameron’s Avatar sequels will be among the first films to resume production following the pandemic, so it’s no surprise that we’re getting plenty of news out of the New Zealand based shoot. The latest titbit comes from producer and regular Cameron collaborator Jon Landau, the man behind Titanic and Alita: Battle Angel, who revealed […]

Paul Dano says The Batman script is “potentially really powerful”

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With the recent news that The Batman can resume filming in the UK once the pandemic safety measures are adhered to, we’re starting to get more stories from the cast and crew about how their schedule has been affected by the halt in production. Zoë Kravitz has spoken about her back-to-work process as Catwoman, and […]

X-Men: Dark Phoenix director dismisses the idea of a ‘Kinberg Cut’

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While news was breaking that Zack Snyder was finally getting to release his version of Justice League on HBO Max, and David Ayer began to set the wheels in motion for his own much-maligned DC property rejig of The Suicide Squad, few people appeared to be clamouring for a take-two attempt of X-Men: Dark Phoenix, […]

Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon heads to Apple TV+

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Having rescued Tom Hanks WWII drama The Greyhound from the choppy waters of release date purgatory, Apple have now performed their biggest streaming service flex yet by acquiring Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon for  a potential Apple TV+ release. Deadline reports that Apple won a bidding war to become the studio in charge […]