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2026 BFI London Film Festival Review – Bunker

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Bunker, 2026. Directed by Florian Zeller Starring Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Stephen Graham, Paul Dano, Mark Gatiss, and Patrick Schwarzenegger.SYNOPSIS:Follows a married couple of 17 years. The husband is an architect who accepts a controversial project to build a survivalist bunker for a tech billionaire. This decision leads his wife to question their marriage.The Father and […]

The Social Reckoning is unfriended at the box office as Other Mommy scares up $27.5 million debut

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The weekend box office was a battle between one movie focusing on an evil being attempting to convince people that they are human, and the Other Mommy. Ba dum tish. Despite no advanced previews and terrible exit-polling (D+ CinemaScore), Rob Savage’s Other Mommy overperformed at the North American box office to the tune of $27.5 million. […]

Nicolas Cage appears to confirm True Detective season 5

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Clues had been dropped last year about Nicolas Cage’s rumoured involvement in True Detective season 5, but now the man himself appears to have confirmed that he will appear in the next iteration of the HBO anthology series. The Academy Award winning Leaving Las Vegas actor made the announcement at New York Comic Con, telling the […]

Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer feature on the first poster for Blade Runner 2099

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Amazon MGM Studios and Alcon Television Group have unveiled the first poster for Blade Runner 2099, their small-screen continuation of Ridley Scott’s seminal 1982 classic and Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049. Set fifty years after the events of 2049, Blade Runner 2099 focuses on Cora (Hunter Schafer), a fugitive who in a final attempt to stop […]

Julia Garner and Anthony Boyle star in trailer for crypto-scandal love story The Altruists

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Netflix has released the trailer for The Altruists, their based-on-a-true-story limited-series which stars Julia Garner (Ozark) and Anthony Boyle (House of Guinness) as a couple who go from meet-cute to $8 billion dollar crypto-scandal.  Created by Graham Moore (The Imitation Game), who co-wrote and co-showruns the eight episode series alongside Jacqueline Hoyt (The Leftovers), The Altruists […]

First teaser for Mike Flanagan’s The Exorcist: Martyrs starring Scarlett Johansson

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Ahead of the first trailer arriving this Friday, Universal Pictures and Blumhouse has released a teaser for Mike Flanagan’s The Exorcist: Martyrs.No official synopsis has been released for the horror sequel, but the story follows Scarlett Johansson’s single-mother cop Julie Miller, who is investigating a series of grizzly murders linked to a Satanic serial killer […]

Jessica Chastain is drawn into the dark side of Nashville in the trailer for Heartland

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Netflix has dropped the trailer for their Nashville-set mystery-drama Heartland, which stars Jessica Chastain (Other Mommy) as a former country and western music star who returns home to investigate the disappearance of her niece. With a soundtrack that features Chastain belting out tunes alongside established country stars, Heartland also features Garrett Hedlund, Carter Faith, Ross Lynch, […]

Paramount makes Steven Spielberg creative producer on next Transformers movie, Michael Bay in talks to direct

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Paramount Pictures and Hasbro are getting the gang back together by appointing Steven Spielberg as the primary creative producer for the new Transformers movie, which Michael Bay is in early talks to direct. According to Deadline following the much-publicised merger creation of Skydance, Paramount are looking to Steven Spielberg to perform the kind of hands-on producer […]

Tom Cruise’s Digger bombs as Verity takes top spot at the box office

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In two years time Tom Cruise and Anne Hathaway will be hoping that their combined efforts will steer Days of Thunder 2 to glory, but this weekend saw the two of them post wildly different results on the box office podium with Digger and Verity respectively. Cruise’s climate-change satire, which was directed by Birdman and The […]