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Movie Review – Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin. (2024)

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Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin., 2024. Written and Directed by Todd Komarnicki. Starring Jonas Dassler, Phileas Heyblom, August Diehl, Moritz Bleibtreu, Nadine Heidenreich, Flula Borg, Lisa Hofer, Luise Landau, William Robinson, James Flynn, Greg Kolpakchi, Simon Licht, Mark Wingett, Evan Hart, Vincent Franklin, Patrick Mölleken, Felix von Bredow, John Akanmu, Tim Hudson, Caroline Berry, Marc Bessant, […]

Video Review – Anora celebrates the American (Wet) Dream

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EJ Moreno with a video review of Anora… If you could only see one breakout performance of the year, it should be the talented Mikey Madison in Sean Baker’s latest film, Anora. With this performance, sleek editing, and some of the most compelling writing, you can easily see why this is one of the year’s […]

Movie Review – Joy (2024)

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Joy, 2024. Directed by Ben Taylor. Starring Thomasin McKenzie, Bill Nighy, James Norton, Charlie Murphy, Rish Shah, Cecily Cleeve, Eoin Duffy, Mariam Haque, Abbiegail Mills, Olivia Sellers, Joanna Scanlan, Tanya Moodie, Ella Bruccoleri, Douggie McMeekin, Miles Jupp, Louisa Harland, and Toby Williams. SYNOPSIS: 3 trailblazers: a young nurse, a visionary scientist, and an innovative surgeon […]

Disney pulls 2026 Star Wars movie from release schedule

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Disney and Lucasfilm’s Star Wars movie plans look to be undergoing a major shake-up once in the wake of the announcement that writer-producer Simon Kinberg will oversee a new Star Wars trilogy. Having put the franchise’s film side on temporary hold following the negative reception to 2019’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, 2026 was earmarked […]

The Essential Donald Sutherland Films

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With the sad news that the legendary Donald Sutherland has passed away, we look at eight essential Sutherland movies that you must see… Donald Sutherland was a fixture on the big screen for 60 years, remaining prolific even in recent years. The iconic actor left us at 88 years old and given his constant presence […]

Scarlett Johansson is hunting dinosaur DNA in new Jurassic World Rebirth image

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Following Colin Trevorrow’s Jurassic World trilogy, the Jurassic Park franchise is set to undergo a new evolution  in 2025 as Godzilla and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story director Gareth Edwards launches an all-new chapter with Jurassic World Rebirth, and thanks to Empire we’ve got a new look from the film featuring the franchise’s new […]

Exclusive Interview – Daisy Ridley on her new film Magpie

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Dan Barnes chats with Daisy Ridley about her new film Magpie… Directed by Sam Yates (The Hope Rooms, All’s Well That Ends Well, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Cymbeline), Magpie received its world premiere at the South by Southwest festival in March 2024. The film follows Anette (Daisy Ridley), an isolated wife and mother who finds herself […]

Erotic vampire thriller Swap gets a trailer, poster and images

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Ahead of its release next week, a trailer has arrived online for writer-director Dallas King’s erotic vampire thriller Swap. The film centres on a young couple looking to spice up their love life, who find themselves lured in by a 500-year-old vampire who tries to persuade them to join him. The cast of the film […]

The Little Mermaid gets a fairy tale horror reimagining with new trailer

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Lionsgate has released a poster and trailer for writer-director Leigh Scott’s dark take on Hans Christian Andersen’s classic tale The Little Mermaid. The horror follows Dr. Eric Prince, an archaeologist who falls for a mysterious woman resembling a mermaid while searching for proof of an advanced prehistoric society on a small Caribbean island. The film […]