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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 wildcat […]

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) will […]

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 back to her friend […]

Your fear of spiders will grow with trailer for creature horror Sting

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Well Go USA has released a poster and trailer for Sting, the upcoming horror from writer-director Kiah Roache-Turner.Alyla Browne stars as Charlotte, a 12 year old girl who discovers an egg that has fallen from the sky, which soon hatches a strange little spider that she keeps as a secret pet. However, as it grows […]

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 planet. […]

Marvel’s Thunderbolts release date moves up

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The date changes for Marvel Studios’ upcoming MCU films seem never-ending as Thunderbolts has shifted yet again on the release calendar, though this time it has moved up by a couple months. Previously set for July 25th, 2025, it will now be released on May 2nd, 2025.The date change is due to yesterday’s surprise announcement of The […]

Movie Review – Land of Bad (2024)

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Land of Bad, 2024..Directed by William Eubank Starring Liam Hemsworth, Russell Crowe, Luke Hemsworth, Ricky Whittle, Milo Ventimiglia, Daniel MacPherson, Chika Ikogwe, Robert Rabiah, George Burgess, Gunner Wright, Joey Vieira, and Lincoln Lewis.SYNOPSIS:When a Delta Force special ops mission goes terribly wrong, Air Force drone pilot Reaper has 48 hours to remedy what has devolved […]

Scarlett Johansson to star in new Just Cause adaptation

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Variety has announced Scarlett Johansson is making her first leap to prestige TV as she will lead Prime Studio’s miniseries Just Cause, a new adaptation of the 1992 book by John Katzenbach. The series will be written and executive produced by American Fiction director Cord Jefferson.Just Cause will see Johansson as Madison Cowart, a female iteration of […]