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Matt Reeves talks Paul Dano’s commitment to The Riddler, says The Batman finale had “70 or 80 takes”

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As Paul Dano promotes Dumb Money, the actor is having his interesting career profiled by The Guardian. He’s not just trying to enter this awards season but also reflecting on what led him to his current race. You can’t talk about Dano’s most recent work without noting his jaw-dropping turn in Matt Reeves’ The Batman. […]

Movie Review – The Good Mother (2023)

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The Good Mother, 2023. Directed by Miles Joris-Peyrafitte. Starring Hilary Swank, Olivia Cooke, Jack Reynor, Dilone, Hopper Penn, Norm Lewis, Karen Aldridge, Frank Alfano, Laurent Rejto, Nate Francis, Mikayla Schaefer, and Cliff Ware. SYNOPSIS: A journalist who, after the murder of her estranged son, forms an unlikely alliance with his pregnant girlfriend to track down […]

Gears of War creator on Netflix movie and Dave Bautista fan-casting

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Last year Netflix teamed up with The Coalition video game studio to adapt their hit franchise Gears of War into a feature film with screenwriter Jon Spaihts (Dune) enlisting earlier this year. Now Gears creator Cliff Bleszinski has spoken up about Netflix’s plans and the fan-casting of Dave Bautista for the role of the series’ lead protagonist Marcus […]

Tim Burton on seeing Superman Lives realised in The Flash: “I’m in quiet revolt against all this”

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As we move further away from The Flash, it seems like everyone wants to address the polarizing film. Now, we are seeing Tim Burton throw in two cents, which makes sense as multiple of his most iconic DC-related projects were used. We all know the film had the return of Michael Keaton as Batman, which […]

Trailer for courtroom drama Miranda’s Victim starring Abigail Breslin, Luke Wilson and Ryan Phillippe

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Vertical has released a poster and trailer for Miranda’s Victim, the upcoming crime drama from director Michelle Danner. Based on true events, the film tells the story of Trish Weir (Abigail Breslin), a woman who suffered through witnessing the man that sexually assaulted have his guilty verdict overturned after he confessed to the brutal crime […]

Movie Review – Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose (2023)

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Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose, 2023 Written and Directed by Adam Sigal. Starring Simon Pegg, Minnie Driver, Christopher Lloyd, Neil Gaiman, Paul Kaye, Ruth Connell, Tim Downie, Gary Beadle, Edmund Kingsley, Cokey Falkow, Jessica Balmer, Damian Gallagher, Emilio Calcioli, Sharon Forbes, Aidan Towers, Drew Moerlein, and John Booker. SYNOPSIS: In 1935, Hungarian-American para-psychologist Nandor […]

Nicolas Cage is a mysterious frontiersman in Butcher’s Crossing trailer

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Saban Films and Sony Pictures Entertainment has dropped the first trailer for Nicolas Cage Western Butcher’s Crossing, which stars the Academy Award winner as a buffalo hunter who sets out on a perilous mission through a remote valley in the Colorado Rockies. Directed by Gabe Polsky (In Search of Greatness), and based on the novel of […]

Godzilla prepares for a massive attack with new Godzilla Minus One image

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For the 37th film in the Godzilla franchise, we see the iconic kaiju with one of his best looks ever.  Godzilla: Minus One unleashes a new image of the titular monster as he prepares his atomic breath attack. The film comes from writer and director Takashi Yamazaki, who also handled VFX for the project. The […]

Barbie surpasses The Avengers at the domestic box office

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Barbie is now in the league with some of the biggest blockbusters in the modern era. After its two-month dominance at the domestic box office, where it sat in the top 5 the entire run, Barbie will now surpass Marvel Studios’ The Avengers in terms of its domestic box office haul. Barbie has generated $626 […]

Dwayne Johnson avoids the SAG-AFTRA strike with WWE return: “Completely blown away by this crowd reaction”

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Finally…The Rock has returned to the WWE. This time, though, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is back due to some unique circumstances. With the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike stopping many actors from working their massive film schedules, Johnson returned to his former stomping ground of professional wrestling to keep his name relevant. The Rock returned on the […]