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Movie Review – Madame Web (2024)

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Madame Web, 2024. Directed by S.J. Clarkson. Starring Dakota Johnson, Sydney Sweeney, Isabela Merced, Celeste O’Connor, Tahar Rahim, Mike Epps, Emma Roberts, Adam Scott, Zosia Mamet, José María Yázpik, Kerry Bishé, Kathy-Ann Hart, and Josh Drennen. SYNOPSIS: Cassandra Webb develops the power to see the future. Forced to confront revelations about her past, she forges […]

Trailer for rom-com French Girl starring Zach Braff, Evelyne Brochu and Vanessa Hudgens

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Paramount has released a poster, trailer and images for French Girl, the romantic comedy from writer-directors James A. Woods & Nicolas Wright. Zach Braff stars as Gordon, a man who finds his romantic proposal plans thrown into chaos when his girlfriend (Evelyne Brochu) is offered a job in Quebec by her celebrity chef ex (Vanessa […]

Robert Downey Jr. stars in trailer for Park Chan-wook series The Sympathizer

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Max has released a trailer for The Sympathizer, the upcoming espionage thriller limited series from directors Park Chan-wook, Marc Munden, and Fernando Meirelles. Based on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the series follows a half-French, half-Vietnamese communist spy as he makes a new life for himself in a refugee community in Los Angeles near […]

Gerard Butler and Morena Baccarin return for Greenland: Migration

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The world will hold on just a little longer as Gerard Butler and Morena Baccarin will begin filming the Greenland sequel, Greenland: Migration, this Spring. Butler, Baccarin and director Ric Roman Waugh are returning for the sequel which will pick up with the Garrity family after Earth was hit by a large comet, destroying most of the […]

British drama Bolan’s Shoes gets a trailer, poster and images

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101 Films has released a poster and trailer for Bolan’s Shoes, the upcoming British drama from writer-director Ian Puleston-Davies. The film tells the story of siblings Penny and Jimmy, who get the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go to a T-Rex concert with the kids from their children’s home, but their excitement ends in tragedy when a […]

Jeff Minter’s psychedelic arcade shooter Akka Arrh coming to PS5 and PSVR 2

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Veteran, and dare I say legendary, game developer Jeff Minter (he of the most spectacular Llamasoft) and Atari have announced that the psychedelic arcade-style shooter Akka Arrh will release on the Playstation 5 and PS VR2 on 8th March.  Already available on Steam and other consoles, Akka Arrh will bring a tapestry of colours, shapes, patterns […]

Taylor Sheridan’s Landman adds Jon Hamm

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The casting continues as Taylor Sheridan fills out the ensemble for his next big TV series Landman led by Billy Bob Thornton (Bad Santa). Joining the show is Jon Hamm (Mad Men) as an old colleague of Thorton’s oil magnate. Based on the podcast Boomtown, Sheridan’s Landman is set in West Texas and follows the “upstairs/downstairs story of roughnecks and […]

David Thewlis, Blu Hunt and Dougray Scott to star in Sherlock & Daughter series

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A new Sherlock Holmes adventure is on the way courtesy of The CW as it has greenlit the mystery thriller series Sherlock & Daughter. It will see the famous detective pairing up with an unlikely partner to solve new mysteries: his daughter. David Thewlis (The Artful Dodger) will star as Sherlock while Blu Hunt (The Originals) […]

Movie Review – Miller’s Girl (2024)

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Miller’s Girl, 2023. Written and Directed by Jade Hailey Bartlett. Starring Martin Freeman, Jenna Ortega, Gideon Adlon, Bashir Salahuddin, Dagmara Domińczyk, and Christine Adams. SYNOPSIS: A creative writing assignment yields complex results between a teacher and his talented student. Early on in writer/director Jade Hailey Bartlett’s psychosexual Miller’s Girl, Jenna Ortega’s Cairo Sweet retort to […]