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Movie Review – Driving Madeleine (2022)

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Driving Madeleine, 2022. Directed by Christian Carion. Starring Line Renaud, Dany Boon, Alice Isaaz. SYNOPSIS:  Madeleine, 92 years old, orders a taxi to take her to the retirement home where she will be living. Her driver, Charles, agrees on a drive through the streets of Paris visiting places important to her. Along the way they […]

Watch Donald Glover in the trailer for rap biopic American Dream: The 21 Savage Story

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Lionsgate has dropped the first trailer for their rap biopic American Dream: The 21 Savage Story, which features Donald Glover and Stranger Things star Caleb McLaughlin as the titular artist at various points in his life. The British-American rapper, who is arguably one of the most influential artists of his generation, came to prominence in 2019 […]

Martin Scorsese’s next will be an 80 minute film about Jesus

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Following the lengthily shoot and even greater run-time of Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, the legendary director has decided that he’s going to follow it up with an 80 minute film about Jesus Christ.  Last year, while reflecting on his illustrious career, Martin Scorsese told Vanity Fair “I want to tell stories, and […]

Series adaptation of David Nicholls’ One Day gets a trailer from Netflix

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Netflix has dropped the trailer for their adaptation of One Day, the global best-selling book from author David Nicholls, which tells the decades spanning love story of Emma and Dex.  First adapted into the 2011 feature film starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess, One Day has been reimagined as a 14-episode series starring stars Ambika […]

Jenna Ortega & The Weeknd rumored for a “loose remake” of Misery

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Fan obsession, in the age of social media, has a lot of material to mine for a film. But what happens when you twist that with the iconic work of Stephen King? We could see something special (or delightfully campy with the talent involved). World of Reel reports that filmmaker Trey Edward Shults could be […]

UPDATE: Stranger Things begins production on its final season

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Stranger Things is now in the endgame. As we previously reported, the fifth and final season of the Netflix streaming megahit would begin production shortly after the holidays. Now, the actors are beginning to report for duty. Sources in the city, like Atlanta Filming, say that Joe Keery, Natalia Dyer, Maya Hawke, and Charlie Heaton […]

Movie Review – Poor Things (2023)

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Poor Things, 2003, Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. Starring Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Kathryn Hunter, Christopher Abbott and Jerrod Carmichael. SYNOPSIS: The incredible tale about the fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter. Yorgos Lanthimos is one of […]

Jacob Elordi replaces Andrew Garfield in Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein

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Much like Dr. Victor Von Frankenstein, Guillermo del Toro is still trying to piece together his Netflix monster movie, and has just had to perform some casting surgery by replacing Andrew Garfield with Saltburn and Priscilla star Jacob Elordi. According to Deadline those pesky scheduling conflicts have put paid to Garfield having nuts n bolts through […]

Wonka wins the box office weekend while Night Swim hardly makes a splash

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Come with me, and we’ll be, in a world of seasonal staying power. Doesn’t quite roll off the tongue, does it? It does however sum up the performance of box-office champ Wonka, which has remained atop the U.S. box-office with $14.4 million in its fourth weekend of release. The Warner Bros. musical prequel has managed […]