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Blumhouse brings the scares to Netflix with Ghoul

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Currently riding high with yet another low-budget/big box-office success on their hands in The First Purge (read our ★★ review here), Blumhouse are now insidiously creeping into the world of streaming television with Ghoul. The 3-part series is being dropped on Netflix, and the spooky new trailer can be watched here… SEE ALSO: Boogeymen, Box Office, and […]

The Predator reshoot details reveal less Predators and more links to previous films

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Shane Black’s The Predator has faced a more tumultuous journey to the big screen than Arnie’s path through the jungle in order to “get to de choppa“, and now details have emerged of the changes that were made following an early test screening. BEWARE SPOILERS! AvPGalaxy have revealed the reshoots, which shunted The Predator‘s release […]

Movie Review – Racer and the Jailbird (2017)

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Racer and the Jailbird, 2017. Directed by Michaël R. Roskam. Starring Matthias Schoenaerts, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Eric De Staercke, Jean-Benoît Ugeux, and Nathalie Van Tongelen. SYNOPSIS: When career criminal Gigi (Matthias Schoenaerts) meets a beautiful young race driver named Bibi (Adèle Exarchopoulos), the two of them begin a passionate affair that brings the worlds of high society and the gangster underworld […]

Jim Carrey set to play Dr Robotnik in Sonic the Hedgehog movie

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Here’s some news that will either make you start doing 360° loop-the-loops, or feel like you’ve landed on a frustratingly positioned cluster of spikes. Deadline are reporting that Jim Carrey is in talks to play Sonic the Hedgehog‘s chuckling nemesis, Dr. Robotnik in Paramount’s big screen adaptation of SEGA’s iconic video game. It would herald […]

Zac Efron’s Ted Bundy film Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile set to premiere on Sky

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Hardly an indication of quality thus far, the cinema/Sky Premiere same day release format has resulted in fare such as Monster Family, The Hurricane Heist, and Anon. Hoping to buck that trend will be Zac Efron’s Ted Bundy biopic, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, which will now debut on satellite television on the same day […]

James McAvoy announces that production is underway on It: Chapter Two

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James McAvoy, who will be playing the grown up version of Bill Denbrough in It: Chapter Two, has announced the first day of shooting via his Instagram account. Unless you have an aversion to dairy products, there’s nothing to frighten you about the behind-the-scenes snap, but it should herald the start of more insights as […]

Robert Rodriguez explains Alita: Battle Angel’s anime eyes

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While James Cameron messes about on Pandora, he has handed the directorial duties of his years-in-development Alita: Battle Angel over to Predators director Robert Rodriguez. When the trailer debuted the other day, amongst the most striking features of the sci-fi epic were the rendering of Rosa Salazar’s eyes. Speaking to Empire about the trailer, Rodriguez […]

Sicario 2 director discusses his Call of Duty movie plans

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Fresh from overwhelmingly positive early reactions to Sicario 2: Soldado (or Sicario: Day of the Soldado, depending on where you are in the world), director Stefano Sollima has been speaking to SlashFilm about his plans for the Call of Duty movie adaptation that he’s currently attached to. Specifically, Sollima spoke of how he aimed to make […]

Spotlight director Tom McCarthy to adapt S-Town podcast

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Crime anthology podcasts have been all the rage over the last few years, with This American Life‘s Serial download becoming something of an audio blockbuster. So it comes as little surprise that Hollywood is sourcing the medium for movie content with the announcement that Spotlight director Tom McCarthy is to adapt another This American Life […]

Movie Review – McQueen (2018)

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McQueen, 2018. Directed by Ian Bonhôte and Peter Etedgui. Featuring Alexander McQueen, Isabella Blow, Jodie Kidd, Alice Smith. SYNOPSIS: An intimate portrayal of the rags-to-riches story of East-End boy done good, Alexander McQueen, who took the fashion industry by storm with his provocative and game-changing shows, only for the world he helped to shape ultimately end […]