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Movie Review – The Long Walk (2025)

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The Long Walk, 2025.  Directed by Francis Lawrence Starring Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, Garrett Wareing, Tut Nyuot, Charlie Plummer, Ben Wang, Roman Griffin Davis, Jordan Gonzalez, Josh Hamilton, Judy Greer, and Mark Hamill. SYNOPSIS:  A group of teenage boys compete in an annual contest known as “The Long Walk,” where they must maintain a certain walking speed or get shot. Hunger Games director […]

Movie Review – Obsession (2025)

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Obsession, 2025. Directed by Curry Barker. Starring Michael Johnston, Inde Navarrette, Cooper Tomlinson, Megan Lawless, Andy Richter, Chloe Breen and Darin Toonder. SYNOPSIS When a hopeless romantic makes a wish that his long-time crush falls in love with him, a sinister enchantment ensues in writer-director Curry Barker’s freaky and frightening feature debut. We all know […]

Channing Tatum, Kirsten Dunst and Peter Dinklage take us behind the scenes of Derek Cianfrance’s Roofman in new featurette

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Following its critically acclaimed debut at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival, Paramount Pictures has given audiences a peek behind-the-scenes of Derek Cianfrance’s Roofman, his based-on-a-true-story tale of an ex-con who secretly lives inside the roof of a Toys “R” Us for six months. Written by The Place Beyond the Pines director, alongside Sound of […]

Movie Review – John Candy: I Like Me (2025)

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John Candy: I Like Me, 2025. Directed by Colin Hanks. Featuring John Candy, Rosemary Candy, Chris Candy, Jennifer Candy-Sullivan, Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, Bill Murray, Steve Martin, Dave Thomas, Martin Short, Tom Hanks, Dan Aykroyd, Robin Duke, Andrew Alexander, Conan O’Brien, Andrea Martin, Macauley Culkin, Chris Columbus, Mel Brooks and Kelvin Pruenster. SYNOPSIS: The film […]

Trailer for fantasy drama The Ice Tower starring Marion Cotillard

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Ahead of its US release this October, a trailer has arrived online for director Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s (Earwig) fantasy drama The Ice Tower. The film follows a teenage orphan as she seeks refuge in a film studio after running away from a children’s home, where she becomes fixated on the alluring star of an adaptation of […]

Mads Mikkelsen hunts monsters in trailer for Bryan Fuller’s Dust Bunny

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Roadside Attraction has released a trailer and poster for Dust Bunny, the upcoming fantasy horror-thriller which marks the feature directorial debut of Bryan Fuller and reunites him with his Hannibal star Mads Mikkelsen.  The film sees Aurora (Sophie Sloan), a 10-year-old girl, approach her mysterious hit man for hire neighbour (Mikkelsen) to help her hunt […]

Eli Roth presents Jimmy and Stiggs in booze and drug-fuelled trailer

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Announced at the Toronto International Film Festival today, horror production company Black Fawn Distribution has acquired Jimmy and Stiggs, the first film to be produced under Eli Roth’s new production outfit The Horror Selection. Watch the trailer and check out the first batch of images below… Jimmy and Stiggs was written and directed by Joe Begos, who […]

Almost Famous at 25: The Story Behind the Coming-of-Age Cult Classic

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Hasitha Fernando on the story behind Almost Famous as it celebrates its 25th anniversary… Almost Famous was one of the quintessential 2000s films that effortlessly captured the 1970s era replete with rock stars, touring with groupies and reckless behavior. And in spite of hits like Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Jerry McGuire under his […]

Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc is back on the case in Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery trailer

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Following its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival this past weekend [read our ★★★★ review here], Netflix has shared a new trailer and promotional images for Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, the latest Benoit Blanc film from writer-director Rian Johnson and star Daniel Craig; check it out below… Benoit Blanc […]

Comic Book Preview – Vampirella #5

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Dynamite Entertainment releases Vampirella #5 this Wednesday, and you can get yourself a sneak peek at the issue with the official preview below… In an all-too-possible future following a global apocalypse, a vengeful Vampirella seizes power and imposes a crushing totalitarian order over the entire Earth — leaving her son Cicero with no other choice […]