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2023 BFI London Film Festival Review – Cobweb

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Cobweb, 2023.  Directed by Kim Jee-Woon Starring Song Kang-ho, Lim Soo-jung, Oh Jung-se, Krystal Jung, Park Jeong-su, Jeon Yeo-been, and Jang Young-Nam SYNOPSIS: In the 1970s, Director Kim is obsessed by the desire to re-shoot the ending of his completed film Cobweb, but chaos and turmoil grip the set with interference from the censorship authorities, […]

Krysten Ritter stars in the trailer for AMC spin-off series Orphan Black: Echoes

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AMC has released the first teaser trailer for their Orphan Black spin-off series, Orphan Black: Echoes, which stars Krysten Ritter (Jessica Jones) as a woman with an unimaginable origin story, who is trying to find her place in the world. The original series debuted in 2013 and made a star Tatiana Maslany (She-Hulk), who played multiple […]

Margot Robbie & Brad Pitt producing The Thin Man remake

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Margot Robbie’s LuckyChap and Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment have joined forces to acquire the rights to the classic Thin Man film series.  According to Deadline the two joined forces to win a hotly contested auction for the popular series of films, which kicked off in 1934 with W.S. Van Dyke’s comedy-mystery film The Thin […]

First look at Angelina Jolie in Pablo Larraín’s Maria Callas biopic

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Pablo Larraín, he of brilliant biopics Jackie and Diana, has unveiled a first-look at Angelina Jolie in his latest retrospective of a female icon, Maria.  Maria, a film about the life of American-born Greek soprano Maria Callas, has been written by Peaky Blinders creator and Spencer scribe Steven Knight, and is based on true accounts to tell the […]

Trailer and posters for The Crown season 6 reveal two-part release

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In true Royal fashion, Netflix has released an announcement trailer for the final season of The Crown, which will drop the first four episodes of its farewell run on the streamer on Nov. 16, before releasing its final six episodes on Dec. 14.  Peter Morgan’s critically acclaimed drama series will use the final season to […]

Guillermo del Toro reveals he was working on a Jabba the Hutt Star Wars movie

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Guillermo del Toro has revealed that his Star Wars movie was going to be centered on everyone’s favourite toad-slurping crime-lord Jabba the Hutt.  Del Toro tweeted some cryptic letters in response to David S. Goyer’s revelations that he had written “an unproduced Star Wars movie that Guillermo del Toro was going to direct.” And now it […]

The Exorcist: Believer levitates to the top of the box office

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Following a critical shrug-of-the-shoulders prior to release (read our review ★★ here), audiences still felt compelled to turn out for Universal and Blumhouse’s The Exorcist: Believer, which easily levitated to the top of the box-office with a $27.2 million domestic opening weekend.  The David Gordon Green-directed legacy sequel opened at the lower end of projections, […]

2023 BFI London Film Festival Review – Eileen

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Eileen, 2023.  Directed by William Oldroyd Starring Thomasin McKenzie, Anne Hathaway, Shea Whigham, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Sam Nivola, Tonye Patano and Owen Teague SYNOPSIS: A woman’s friendship with a new co-worker at the prison facility where she works takes a sinister turn. Thomasin McKenzie’s Eileen is habitually on the cusp of something. Things that threaten […]

2023 BFI London Film Festival Review – Memory

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Memory, 2023.  Directed by Michel Franco. Starring Jessica Chastain, Peter Sarsgaard, Brooke Timber, Merritt Wever, Josh Charles, Jackson Dorfmann, Elsie Fisher, and Jessica Harper. SYNOPSIS:  Sylvia is a social worker who leads a simple and structured life. This is blown open when Saul follows her home from their high school reunion. Their surprise encounter will […]

Brie Larson faces a fight to save the world in latest trailer for The Marvels

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Marvel Studios has released a brand new trailer for The Marvels, one which pits Brie Larson’s returning Carol Danvers up against Zawe Ashton’s villainous Dar-Benn in a fight to save the world.  Directed by Nia DaCosta (Candyman), The Marvels stars Brie Larson, Teyonah Parris, Iman Vellani, Zawe Ashton, Gary Lewis, Park Seo-joon, Zenobia Shroff, Mohan […]