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Movie Review – Fractured (2018)

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Fractured, 2018.Directed by Jamie Patterson. Starring April Pearson, Karl Davies, Louisa Lytton, Jordan Metcalfe and Calvin Dean.SYNOPSIS:A couple seemingly suffering relationship issues escapes to a secluded country house for a romantic getaway, but they soon become convinced that they are not alone.The first half of low-budget British horror movie Fractured plays as a very conventional […]

Movie Review – Sicario 2: Soldado (2018)

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Sicario 2: Soldado, 2018.Directed by Stefano Sollima. Starring Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro, Catherine Keener, Isabela Moner, Jeffrey Donovan, and Matthew Modine.SYNOPSIS:Tasked with causing a turf war to destabilise the cartels, Matt Graver enlists brutal hitman Alejandro to assist him in kidnapping the daughter of a top cartel boss.“I’m gonna have to get… dirty,” says […]

Movie Review – Adrift (2018)

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Adrift, 2018.Directed by Baltasar Kormákur. Starring Shailene Woodley, Sam Claflin, Grace Palmer, Jeffrey Thomas and Elizabeth Hawthorne.SYNOPSIS:A young couple find themselves forced to battle for survival when the pleasure yacht they are sailing to California is caught in the midst of a horrific storm, leaving them drifting in the Pacific Ocean.There’s a whole sub-genre of […]

DVD Review – Then, Now, Forever: The Evolution of WWE’s Women’s Division

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Then, Now, Forever: The Evolution of WWE’s Women’s Division, 2018.SYNOPSIS:A varied and colourful collection of women’s wrestling matches, tracing WWE’s female competitors from the 1980s all the way to today’s Women’s Evolution, which has seen the current female roster make history on numerous occasions.WWE is definitely in the grip of a ‘Women’s Evolution’. PR speak […]

Will Ferrell joins Netflix for a comedy movie based around the Eurovision Song Contest

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Will Ferrell is set to become the latest A-list comedy actor to lead a Netflix feature film, having signed on to star in Eurovision for the streaming service.Ferrell will also write the movie, based around the Eurovision Song Contest, with fellow Saturday Night Live alum Andrew Steele. His regular collaborator Adam McKay (Anchorman, Step Brothers) […]

Terry Gilliam says he hates superheroes and urges fans to “grow up”

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Lauded filmmaker Terry Gilliam has slammed superhero movies in a new interview, saying that he hates the genre and telling fans of spandex-clad stars that they should “grow up”.Gilliam spoke to CineNando about his new film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, which finally screened for the first time at this year’s Cannes Film Festival […]

Why are we so snobby about movies for older women?

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Tom Beasley takes a look at the most unfairly maligned movie demographic…How did you react when you saw the first trailer for Book Club? If you’re anything like me, your immediate response was probably a snort of derision, followed by a shaking of the head in disbelief. It seemed baffling that a movie about women […]

RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant Alaska on board for The Last Sharknado

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The latest in a long string of cameos in the Sharknado franchise is set to be RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant Alaska – one of the most popular drag queens in the history of the reality show.The latest Sharknado movie, set to mark the culmination of the franchise, is called The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time […]

Alex Garland is “not interested” in making an Annihilation sequel

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Director Alex Garland has often spoken of his disdain for sequels and it seems that his hit sci-fi Annihilation is not going to be the exception to the rule.In an interview to promote the film’s DVD release, Garland told IndieWire that he has no plans to adapt the other books in Jeff VanderMeer’s ‘Southern Reach’ […]

Movie Review – My Friend Dahmer (2018)

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My Friend Dahmer, 2018.Written and directed by Marc Meyers. Starring Ross Lynch, Alex Wolff, Anne Heche, Dallas Roberts and Vincent Kartheiser.SYNOPSIS:Jeffrey Dahmer forms friendships in his senior year at high school, but there are glimpses of the personality that would eventually lead him to become one of America’s most notorious serial killers.The premise of My […]