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Ian McKellen would return as Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum on one crucial condition

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Ian McKellen has revealed that he would return to Middle-earth and reprise his Academy Award nominated role of Gandalf the Grey for The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum on one rather crucial condition. In typical McKellen fashion, the legendary actor told The Times of London that he had heard “stirrings in Tolkien […]

Movie Review – Monica (2023)

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Monica, 2023. Directed by Andrea Pallaoro. Starring Trace Lysette, Patricia Clarkson, Emily Browning, Joshua Close, Adriana Barraza, Bobby Easley, Graham Caldwell, Ali Amine, Jean Zarzour, and Ruby James Fraser. SYNOPSIS: The intimate portrait of a woman who returns home to care for her dying mother. A delicate and nuanced story of a fractured family, the […]

Bad Boys: Ride or Die gives box office a boost with $104.6 million global start

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Sony Pictures Bad Boys: Ride or Die, the fourth entry in the near 30-year old franchise, has opened with a much-needed $56 million at the North American box-office.  The Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah directed sequel to 1995’s Bad Boys, 2003’s Bad Boys II and 2020’s Bad Boys for Life also opened at the […]

MTV Generation-Era Comedies That Need New Sequels

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Happy Gilmore 2 is on the way, but what other MTV generation-era comedies deserve revisiting? Here’s ten… Adam Sandler’s about to take to the fairways again with the triumphant return of Happy Gilmore. The slacker-turned-unorthodox golf pro lit up the screens in the mid-90s and got into a fistfight with Bob Barker. It was a […]

The Thing: Remastered to bring back the cult classic survival horror

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Nightdive Studios has announced an upcoming remaster of the cult classic 2002 third-person survival horror shooter game The Thing, itself a sequel to the iconic 1982 sci-fi horror from director John Carpenter. The Thing: Remastered will take us back to Antarctica, this time with up to 4K resolution at 120FPS, complete with an overhaul of […]

Kristen Stewart to star in her first series playing Sally Ride in The Challenger

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Kristen Stewart heads to TV with a new limited series playing Sally Ride. as Deadline reports that Stewart will make her series-starring debut in The Challenger. She’ll play the astronaut and physicist who became the first American woman to fly in space. Kyra Sedgwick’s Big Swing Productions developed the project, which was later brought to […]

Movie Review – Children of Sin (2022)

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Children of Sin, 2022. Directed by Christopher Wesley Moore. Starring Meredith Mohler, Lewis Hines, Cami Roebuck, Jo-Ann Robinson, Ana-Clare Henley, Jacob Thomas, Keni Bounds, Jeff Buchwald, and Faith Stanley. SYNOPSIS: After being sent to a sinister religious retreat by their stepfather, two siblings fight to escape in order to save their mother from harm’s way. […]

Mavis and Drac will be back in Motel Transylvania

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The movie series may have came to an end (supposedly) with 2022’s Hotel Transylvania: Transformia, but fear not fans as Mavis and Drac will be back courtesy of Netflix in 2025 with the newly announced animated series Motel Transylvania. Announced as part of the streamer’s Next on Netflix reveals, the official synopsis for the new […]

Suspense thriller Outrage gets a trailer, poster and images

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Ahead of its US release later this month, Freestyle Digital Media has shared a poster, trailer and images for the suspense thriller Outrage. Directed by Mathieu Bonzon, the film centres on a group of elite political and media personalities as they attend a private dinner party at a secluded French chateau, where they become aware […]