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Quentin Tarantino teams with David Fincher and Brad Pitt for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood follow-up

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In many ways, with this news dropping on April 1st, you’d expect it to be a trick, but two of the most significant filmmakers ever are working together. For every film lover, from the ’90s to modern cinema snobs, the pairing of David Fincher and Quentin Tarantino feels unreal. However, as recently revealed, the duo […]

James Gunn says he was offered Superman first but chose The Suicide Squad

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DC Studios has been considering a Superman reboot for quite some time, with rumblings of the film going back to 2018. As confirmed by James Gunn himself at this year’s CinemaCon, Superman was put on the map, but the filmmaker chose his cult hit The Suicide Squad instead. Yes, as Gunn was exiting his Marvel […]

Trailer for supernatural mystery-thriller The Ruse

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Mena Films has released a poster and trailer for writer-director Stevan Mena’s supernatural mystery-thriller The Ruse. The film follows Dale, an in-home caregiver who is sent to take care of an elderly patient at a seaside home after the previous carer mysteriously vanished, but after a series of terrifying occurrences Dale begins to fear for […]

Sydney Sweeney in talks for live-action Gundam movie

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Deadline is reporting that Euphoria and Anyone But You star Sydney Sweeney is in final talks with Legendary Entertainment about joining the cast of their live-action mecha movie Gundam.  The Gundam movie has been in development at Legendary for several years now, with the studio teaming with Bandai Namco Filmworks, owner of the Japanese franchise […]

Hurry Up Tomorrow debuts trailer with The Weeknd surprising CinemaCon

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The Weeknd took CinemCon by storm, performing for the crowd alongside a trailer drop for his new film. Lionsgate debuted a new trailer for Hurry Up Tomorrow at CinemaCon today, previewing the psychosexual insanity awaiting viewers. Based on The Weeknd’s sixth studio album of the same title, the latest preview promises a fantastic mashup of […]

The Essential Action Movies of 1985

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Time for a tooling up montage, as we travel back 40 years to look at the essential action movies from 1985… We’re midway through the decade now and I can’t be alone in finding it almost unfathomable that 1985 was 40 years ago. No, not 10, not 20… 40 years ago man! The midpoint of […]

R.I.P. Val Kilmer (1959 – 2025)

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Some sad news to report this morning as it has been announced by the family of Val Kilmer that the American actor has passed away of pneumonia aged 65, having previously recovered from a battle against throat cancer. Born in Los Angeles in 1959, Kilmer attended the prestigious Julliard School, becoming the youngest student to […]

Movie Review – A Nice Indian Boy (2025)

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A Nice Indian Boy, 2025. Directed by Roshan Sethi. Starring Karan Soni, Jonathan Groff, Sunita Mani, Zarna Garg, Harish Patel, Peter S. Kim, Sean Amsing, Sas Goldberg, Sachin Sahel, and Dhirendra. SYNOPSIS: When Naveen brings his fiancé Jay home to meet his traditional Indian family, they must contend with accepting his white-orphan-artist boyfriend and helping […]

Exclusive Interview – VFX Supervisor Edward Douglas on Oz Perkins’ The Monkey

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EJ Moreno sits down with Edward Douglas to discuss the VFX of The Monkey… Crafting the visual look and style for something like The Monkey is no easy task. From matching the tone written by Oz Perkins to accenting some of the more outlandish kills, no one knows how tedious this could be unless you’ve […]