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4K Ultra HD Review – Obsession (2026)

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Obsession, 2025.Directed by Curry Barker. Starring Michael Johnson, Inde Navarrette, Cooper Tomlinson, Megan Lawless, Andy Richter.SYNOPSIS:After breaking the mysterious ‘One Wish Willow’ to win his crush’s heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon discovers that some desires come at a dark, sinister price.The Monkey’s Paw gets re-adapted for […]

Movie Review – Everybody Digs Bill Evans (2026)

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Everybody Digs Bill Evans, 2026.Directed by Grant Gee. Starring Anders Danielsen Lie, Bill Pullman, Barry Ward, and Laurie Metcalf. SYNOPSIS:Legendary jazz pianist Bill Evans forms his perfect trio, recording two ground-breaking albums. When his brilliant young bassist dies tragically, Evans is devastated. The story follows Evans’ journey to overcome grief and return to music.Bill Evans […]

Four Rooms sets 4K Ultra HD release from Kino Lorber

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Kino Lorber has announced a 4K Ultra HD release for Four Rooms, the 1995 anthology black-comedy featuring segments from then-emerging Sundance darlings Allison Anders (Grace of My Heart), Alexandre Rockwell (In the Soup), Robert Rodriguez (Sin City) and Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction), all of which take place on Ted’s (Tim Roth) first night as bellhop […]

Movie Review – The Fix (2026)

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The Fix, 2026.Directed by Guy Moshe. Starring Liam Neeson, Zachary Levi, Quincy Isaiah, Wes Chatham, Jake Choi, Augusto Aguilera, Annet Mahendru, Navid Negahban, Elnaaz Norouzi, Grant Harvey, Lara Wolf, Titus Welliver, Oliver Trevena.SYNOPSIS:Disillusioned by the end of the war in Afghanistan, a group of disgraced, war torn ex-CIA operators set out to Tehran to take […]

Hot Toys unveils Avengers: Doomsday Victor Von Doom sixth scale figure

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Having kicked off its Avengers: Doomsday sixth scale figure reveals with the armored version of Doctor Doom back in July, Hot Toys has now officially unveiled its Victor Von Doom variant, featuring Robert Downey Jr.’s Latverian ruler in his alternate attire from the upcoming Marvel Studios superhero epic. The new figure joins the previously announced […]

Thor joins Hot Toys’ Avengers: Doomsday collection with new sixth scale action figure

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Having unveiled Doctor Doom, Cyclops, Gambit, Magneto, and Professor X earlier this summer, Hot Toys continues to roll out its Avengers: Doomsday sixth scale action figure collection with pre-orders opening for Chris Hemsworth’s God of Thunder Thor; available to pre-order now in both standard and deluxe editions, you can check out the official promotional images […]

Unwrap the new trailer for Pedro Almodovar’s Bitter Christmas

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Sony Pictures Classics has released a trailer for Bitter Christmas, the new tragicomedy from writer-director Pedro Almodovar which tells two alternate stories – one of Elsa, an advertising director who faces a turbulent long weekend in December 2004, and the other set in 2026, which sees Raul, a screenwriter, penning a script on the story […]

Movie Review – The Uprising (2026)

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The Uprising, 2026.Written and Directed by Paul Greengrass. Starring Andrew Garfield, Jamie Bell, Stephen Dillane, Tom Hollander, Cosmo Jarvis, Thomasin McKenzie, Jonny Lee Miller, Woody Norman, Katherine Waterston, Stanley Townsend, Sky Yang, Helena Wigan, Dónal Finn, Charly Kuschel, Mark Redhead, Gerald Tyler, Luke Booys, and Simon Kunz.SYNOPSIS:The leader of a ferocious rebellion against the tyranny […]

Final trailer for Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Digger starring Tom Cruise

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With Digger set to arrive in theatres next month, Warner Bros. has released the final trailer for director Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s satirical black comedy which sees Tom Cruise leading a cast that also includes Riz Ahmed, John Goodman, Sandra Hüller, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jesse Plemons, Robert John Burke, Emma D’Arcy, Burn Gorman and Sophie Wilde. Check […]

Contagion at 15: The Story Behind the Godfather of Pandemic Thrillers

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Hasitha Fernando looks at the story behind Steven Soderbergh’s pandemic thriller Contagion…Over the years Hollywood has churned out a host of pandemic thrillers that range from downright outlandish to the eerily prophetic. Contagion cheerfully belongs to the latter camp, where the devastating impact of an unfolding global pandemic was portrayed in chillingly accurate fashion. As […]