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Sigourney Weaver didn’t get the call for Ghostbusters: Afterlife sequel

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Who you gonna call? It seems like Sigourney Weaver isn’t on that call list. As we gear for yet another Ghostbusters entry, a direct sequel to the 2021 film Ghostbusters: Afterlife, the cast begins to round out, and we see which legacy characters will reappear. Sadly, it seems like Weaver will not return, reprising her […]

Interview – William Fichtner talks Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, not playing Shredder and returning for the sequel

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Luke Owen sits down with William Fichtner… To celebrate the home entertainment release of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles here in the UK (read our review here), we caught up with William Fichtner on the phone to talk about the movie, not playing Shredder and returning for the sequel. We also take the time to have […]

Quentin Tarantino recreating 70s movies for his final film The Movie Critic, says Paul Schrader

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While Quentin Tarantino is infamously quiet about his films before release, fellow filmmaker Paul Schrader is far from quiet. Schrader recently dished about Tarantino’s upcoming tenth and rumored final film, spilling new details on how far to ensure The Movie Critic is an epic spectacle for cinephiles. Paul Schrader tells Indiewire that the Pulp Fiction […]

Jude Law is Henry VIII in first look at Firebrand

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Coinciding with its world premiere at Cannes yesterday, we now have a look at the first official image from Firebrand, the upcoming historical horror thriller starring Jude Law as the infamous King Henry VIII and Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander as his sixth and final wife Katherine Parr. Firebrand marks the English-language debut of Karim Aïnouz (Invisible […]

Movie Review – The Little Mermaid (2023)

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The Little Mermaid, 2023. Directed by Rob Marshall. Starring Halle Bailey, Jonah Hauer-King, Daveed Diggs, Awkwafina, Jacob Tremblay, Noma Dumezweni, Javier Bardem, Melissa McCarthy, Art Malik, Jessica Alexander, Emily Coates, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jude Akuwudike, Russell Balogh, Adrian Christopher, Simone Ashley, Martina Laird, John Dagleish, Sienna King, Karolina Conchet, David Stokes, and Craig Stein. SYNOPSIS: A […]

Movie Review – The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)

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The Super Mario Bros. Movie, 2023. Directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic. Featuring the voice talents of Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Jack Black, Keegan-Michael Key, Seth Rogen, Fred Armisen, Kevin Michael Richardson, Sebastian Maniscalco, Charles Martinet, Khary Payton, Eric Bauza, Jessica DiCicco, Jeannie Elias, and Juliet Jelenic. SYNOPSIS: While working underground to […]

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts tracking $80 million domestic opening weekend

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While 2018’s Bumblebee did a lot to please fans and critics, the soft-reboot of the Transformers franchise didn’t quite manage to replicate the box office success of Michael Bay’s five movies as it suffered the hangover of Transformers: The Last Knight to end up as the lowest-grossing instalment of the live-action movie series with $468 […]

One Shall Stand, One Shall Fall: The Best Fights of Optimus Prime and Megatron

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Ricky Church on the greatest fights between Optimus Prime and Megatron… For over 35 years, the Autobots and Decepticons have waged a constant war against each other throughout the Transformers franchise. No matter what new iteration, whether it be television, comics, video games or feature films, these two factions are always at each other’s throats as […]

Ten John Wick-Inspired Movies For Your Action Fix

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Hasitha Fernando dives into ten John Wick-inspired movies to give you your action fix… Every couple of years an action movie would come along that instantly becomes a gamechanger in the genre and the template to be followed for the next decade or so – John Wick was such a film. Released in 2014 the […]