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Rumoured details on the villains set to join The Mandarin in Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

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As part of its big Phase Four slate unveiling at the San Diego Comic-Con back in July, Marvel Studios announced that The Mandarin – the real Mandarin – is set to make his MCU debut in 2021 in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, but if a new rumour is to be believed, […]

55th Chicago International Film Festival Capsule Review – The Whistlers (2019)

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The Whistlers. 2019 Written and Directed by Corneliu Porumboiu Starring Vlad Ivanov, Catrinel Marlon, Rodica Lazăr, Sabin Tambrea, Agustí Villaronga, István Teglas, and Antonio Buíl Synopsis: A policeman intent on freeing a crooked businessman from a prison on Gomera, an island in the Canaries. However, he must first learn the difficult local dialect, a language […]

55th Chicago International Film Festival Capsule Review – Deerskin (2019)

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Deerskin. 2019 Written and Directed by Quentin Dupieux Starring Jean Dujardin, Adèle Haenel, Albert Delpy, and Pierre Gommé SYNOPSIS: A man’s obsession with his designer deerskin jacket causes him to blow his life savings and turn to crime. An exercise in unabashed bizarreness, Deerskin sees French director Quentin Dupieux getting a committed and straight performance […]

55th Chicago International Film Festival Capsule Review – The Truth (2019)

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The Truth. 2019 Directed by Hirokazu Koreeda Starring Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, Ethan Hawke, Ludivine Sagnier, Roger Van Hool, Jackie Berroyer, Laurent Capelluto, Manon Clavel, Christian Crahay, Clementine Grenier, Alain Libolt, and Maya Sansa SYNOPSIS: About a stormy reunion between a daughter and her actress mother, Catherine, against the backdrop of Catherine’s latest role in […]

Kevin Feige teases the future of Ant-Man after Avengers: Endgame

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The audience last saw Scott Lang/Ant-Man in the finale of Avengers: Endgame during the funeral of Tony Stark. However, there has been no announcement yet as to whether the fan-favourite character will be getting a third film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. During an interview with The New York Times, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has […]

Godzilla: King of the Monsters director on whether the post-credits scene teases Mecha-King Ghidorah

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Michael Dougherty, the director of Godzilla: King of the Monsters, has discussed if the film’s post-credits scene teases Mecha-King Ghidorah. In the post-credits scene for this year’s Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Charles Dance’s villain Jonah looks at the recovered severed head of King Ghidorah. There has been speculation that this could lead to a […]

Homecoming and Far From Home’s Jon Watts in talks to direct Spider-Man 3 for Marvel and Sony

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Spider-Man fans had cause to celebrate this week as Disney and Sony announced that they had reached an agreement to continue shared custody of Tom Holland’s Peter Parker, with Spidey set to make at least two more appearances in the Marvel Cinematic Universe – a third solo movie, and another as-yet-unrevealed Marvel Studios film. With […]

Bob Iger says Disney knows it pushed too much Star Wars too quickly

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Bob Iger, the CEO of Disney, says that the studio knows they pushed too much Star Wars into the market place too quickly. The Disney era of Star Wars has been enormously successful but they know they have made mistakes – most evident in the poor box office performance of Solo: A Star Wars Story, […]