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Movie Review – The Marsh King’s Daughter (2023)

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The Marsh King’s Daughter, 2023. Directed by Neil Burger. Starring Daisy Ridley, Ben Mendelsohn, Garrett Hedlund, Caren Pistorius, Brooklynn Prince, Gil Birmingham, Joey Carson, Pamela MacDonald, Joshua Peace, and Dan Abramovici. SYNOPSIS: Helena, a woman living a seemingly ordinary life, hides a dark secret: her father is the infamous “Marsh King,” the man who kept […]

Zendaya has Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist in her sights in the poster for Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers

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Having seen its release date pushed back following 2023’s SAG-AFTRA strikes, Warner Bros are starting to crank up promotion for Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers, and have served an ace in the form of a brand new poster.  The tennis tryst drama marks Guadagnino’s first full-fledged U.S. studio movie, and features Euphoria’s Zendaya as a tennis star […]

Movie Review – Eileen (2023)

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Eileen, 2023. Directed by William Oldroyd. Starring Thomasin McKenzie, Anne Hathaway, Shea Whigham, Marin Ireland, Owen Teague, Sam Nivola, Jefferson White, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, and Tonye Patano. SYNOPSIS: A woman’s friendship with a new co-worker at the prison facility where she works takes a sinister turn. There are several ongoing plot threads in William Oldroyd’s Eileen […]

Adam Wingard says Godzilla x Kong: A New Empire will include homages to Toho movies

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Adam Wingard knows that Godzilla and Kaiju fans are eating well right now, and he’s prepared to give us even more with his new film, Godzilla x Kong: A New Empire. In a new spread for Total Film, the filmmaker dove into his upcoming MonsterVerse entry and teased that the new film homages the great […]

Mickey Mouse slasher horror movie Mickey’s Mouse Trap gets a trailer, poster and images

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With the earliest version of Mickey Mouse entering the public domain on January 1st thanks to the copyright expiration on Steamboat Willie, it’s taken just a matter of hours for the first horror-themed projects featuring Disney’s iconic mascot to make their presence felt. Following hot on the heels of the horror survival video game Infestation […]

Kevin Hart and crew attempt an airborne heist in final trailer for Netflix’s lift

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With a little over a week to go until Lift lands on Netflix, the streamer has released a new trailer for F. Gary Gray’s upcoming action comedy. The film stars Kevin Hart as Cyrus Whitaker, a master thief who, along with his expert crew, is forced to pull off the ultimate heist: stealing $500 million […]

Mickey Mouse goes killer in Infestation 88, the Steamboat Willie-inspired game

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With the earliest version of Disney’s Mickey Mouse entering the public domain today via Steamboat Willie, the inevitable horror-related media was bound to happen, and the first significant drop will be Infestation 88, a new 1-v-4-player survival-horror co-op game. Nightmare Forge describes the game: “In the year 1988, what was thought to be an outbreak […]

John Williams confirms he’s not retiring just yet

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In the Summer of 2022, John Williams set out to wrap up his historic career. After decades and decades of fantastic film scores, Williams was reportedly done. He wrapped on Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, set to serve as his swan song. But things have changed recently, with the legendary film score composer […]

Movie Review – Priscilla (2023)

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Priscilla, 2023. Written and Directed by Sofia Coppola. Starring Cailee Spaeny, Jacob Elordi, Ari Cohen, Dan Abramovici, Rodrigo Fernandez-Stoll, Tim Post, Luke Humphrey, Dagmara Domińczyk, Jorja Cadence, Emily Mitchell, Josette Halpert, Deanna Jarvis, Tim Dowler-Coltman, R Austin Ball, Raine Monroe Boland, Tonia Venneri, Kamilla Kowal, Conni Miu, and Gwynne Phillips. SYNOPSIS: When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu […]