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2023 Sundance Film Festival Review – Cat Person

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Cat Person, 2023. Directed by Susanna Fogel. Starring Emilia Jones, Nicholas Braun, Geraldine Viswanathan, Hope Davis, Fred Melamed, and Isabella Rossellini. SYNOPSIS: Follows the brief relationship between twenty-year-old sophomore college student Margot, and an older man Robert, who is a regular at the movie theater where Margot works. The promise of adapting Kristen Roupenian’s iconic […]

Original Girls Trip cast to return for sequel set in Ghana

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A sequel to Girls Trip has been in development ever since the 2017 comedy made $140 million at the worldwide box-office, and now the girls have been given the green-light to reunite with the news that Regina Hall, Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Tiffany Haddish are set to return for a sequel.  The news […]

Featurette offers a peek behind the door of M. Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin

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Dave Bautista is promising “layers of nightmares” await behind the door of M. Night Shyamalan’s eagerly anticipated Knock at the Cabin, and Universal is giving you a further peek with this featurette for the February 4th horror film. Starring Jonathan Groff, Ben Aldridge and Kristen Cui as a family vacationing in a cabin in the […]

2023 Sundance Film Festival Review – Iron Butterflies

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Iron Butterflies, 2022. Written and directed by Roman Liubyi. SYNOPSIS: In summer 2014, sunflower fields and coal mines in eastern Ukraine turn into a 12 square kilometers crime scene. A multi-layered investigation into the downing of flight MH17, in which a butterfly-shaped shrapnel found in the pilot’s body implicated the state responsible for a war […]

David Harbour to suit up as Santa again for Violent Night 2

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Violent Night was a real seasonal success story, with David Harbour’s Santa filling his sack to the tune of $75 million at the Christmas box-office, and now it appears that he’s going to don the big red suit again for a sequel. While speaking with The Wrap, director Tommy Wirkola responded to the question of […]

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves gets the party started with new trailer

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Paramount Pictures has revealed a new trailer for the fantasy adventure Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves ahead of its release this March. Based on the based the iconic roleplaying game, the film follows a band of unlikely adventurers as they team-up to embark on a dangerous journey to retrieve a lost relic. Watch the […]

Amazon to give Ben Affleck’s Nike movie Air a theatrical release

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Unless you’re wearing spandex or pocketing $2 billion from Pandora, the post-pandemic box-office landscape is still a pretty daunting one, especially if you’re a mid-range adult film, so the news that Amazon Studios are to grant Ben Affleck’s directorial return a wide theatrical release is welcome news indeed.  Air, which stars his fellow Good Will Hunting […]

2023 Sundance Film Festival Review – The Disappearance of Shere Hite

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The Disappearance of Shere Hite, 2023. Directed by Nicole Newnham. SYNOPSIS: Shere Hite’s bestselling book The Hite Report liberated the female orgasm by revealing the most private experiences of thousands of anonymous surveys. Her findings rocked the American establishment and opened current conversations about gender and sexuality. The latest documentary from Oscar-nominated filmmaker Nicole Newnham […]

2023 Sundance Film Festival Review – AUM: The Cult at the End of the World

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AUM: The Cult at the End of the World, 2023. Directed by Ben Braun and Chiaki Yanagimoto. SYNOPSIS: On March 20, 1995, a deadly gas attack in the Tokyo subway sent the nation and its people into chaos. This exploration of Aum Shinrikyo, who were responsible for the attack, involves the participation of those who […]