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Movie Review – A Walk in the Woods (2015)

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A Walk in the Woods, 2015. Directed by Ken Kwapis. Starring Robert Redford, Nick Nolte, Emma Thompson, Kristen Schaal and Mary Steenburgen. SYNOPSIS: A semi-retired celebrated travel writer attempts the Appalachian Trail with an old travelling companion. Looking back at Ken Kwapis’ back catalogue, one gets the impression that he’s definitely well-suited in human comedy-dramas […]

Paul Thomas Anderson to debut Jonny Greenwood documentary Junun at NYFF

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Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood is the subject of the new forthcoming documentary helmed by Paul Thomas Anderson. The documentary entitled Junun, which follows the alternative rock guitarist on a trip to northwest India’s Rajasthan, will debut at the New York Film Festival (NYFF) beginning in late September. The focus of Junun is the making of Greenwood’s […]

Blu-ray Review – La Grande Bouffe (1973)

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La Grande Bouffe, 1973. Directed by Marco Ferreri. Starring Marcello Mastroianni, Phillipe Noiret, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Piccoli and Andrea Ferreol. SYNOPSIS: Four professional men retreat to a villa with the express aim of eating themselves to death… The elegiac chaos of La Grande Bouffe – literally the big eat – created something of a storm […]

Jeremy Renner says it’s unlikely we’ll see The Avengers team with Guardians of the Galaxy

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With Phase Three building towards The Avengers: Infinity War Parts 1 & 2 and Thanos appearing in James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy, many fans assumed we would be seeing Earth’s Mightiest Heroes crossing paths with the Guardians. Well, according to Jeremy Renner. We probably won’t. “You’ll be eighty years old by then, and I […]

Haley Bennett lands lead role in The Girl On The Train

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Haley Bennett (The Equalizer) has landed a lead role in the upcoming film adaptation of The Girl On The Train. Paula Hawkins wrote the best-selling novel of which the film is based, with Emily Blunt (Sicario) and Rebecca Ferguson (Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation) already cast in the other lead roles. Blunt plays Rachel, “a […]

Anthony Michael Hall to star alongside Brad Pitt in Netflix’s War Machine

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Anthony Michael Hall has just landed a role alongside Brad Pitt in Netflix’s upcoming satirical comedy War Machine. According to Deadline, the actor will play General Hank Pulver, the right-hand man to Pitt’s four-star general. Pitt’s character is inspired by General Stanley McChrystal, while Hall’s character is inspired by General Mike Flynn, McChrystal’s real-life second-in-command. The […]

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials opens in the US to $30 million; now on $108 million worldwide

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Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials is off and running at the US box office, with an impressive opening weekend. Opening in around 3,700 screens in the US, Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials opened to $30.3 million and took the number one spot, facing fierce competition from Johnny Depp’s Black Mass, which opened to $23.3 million. […]

Flying iceberg kills grazing horse on Fast & Furious 8 set

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We promise this isn’t satire or some hilariously cruel and early April Fools joke. During filming of an Icelandic car chase on Fast and Furious 8, a makeshift plastic iceberg exploded into range of a grazing horse, subsequently breaking its leg. The poor beauty had to be put to sleep. Another horse was also injured, […]