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Movie Review – Predator: Badlands (2025)

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Predator: Badlands, 2025. Directed by Dan Trachtenberg. Starring Elle Fanning, Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi, Rohinal Nayaran, Michael Homick, Stefan Grube, Reuben De Jong, Cameron Brown, Alison Wright, Matt Duffer, and Ross Duffer. SYNOPSIS: A young Predator outcast from his clan finds an unlikely ally on his journey in search of the ultimate adversary. In what might sound […]

Creating A Polyphonic Character: Director Joachim Trier on Sentimental Value – Exclusive Interview

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Robert Kojder chats with Sentimental Value director Joachim Trier… Back with Sentimental Value after turning the relatively unknown Renate Reinsve into a must-watch name with The Worst Person in the World, this collaboration once again sees her playing another messy character with her life in disarray. However, this time it’s a family affair, as Nora’s […]

Movie Review – In Your Dreams (2025)

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In Your Dreams, 2025. Directed by Alexander Woo. Featuring the voice talents of Jolie Hoang-Rappaport, Elias Janssen, Simu Liu, Craig Robinson, Cristin Milioti, Gia Carides, Omid Djalili, SungWon Cho, and Zachary Noah Piser. SYNOPSIS: Stevie and her little brother Elliot journey into the wildly absurd landscape of their own dreams to ask the Sandman to […]

Return to the Upside Down with the opening 5 minutes of Stranger Things season 5

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Following on from yesterday’s batch character posters, Netflix has released the opening scene of the premiere episode of Stranger Things’ fifth and final season, ‘The Crawl’. Taking us back to 1983 when Will mysteriously disappeared into the Upside Down, the clip sees the youngster attacked inside his makeshift fort by a Demogorgon, who drags Will […]

Trailer for Sky crime drama Under Salt Marsh starring Kelly Reilly and Rafe Spall

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Sky has released a trailer for Under Salt Marsh, the upcoming crime thriller series from Claire Oakley (Make Up). Yellowstone’s Kelly Reilly stars as Jackie, a former police detective who makes a shocking discovery surrounding a cold case that cost her her career, forcing her to reunite with her former partner Eric (Rafe Spall) to […]

Movie Review – Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein (2025)

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Frankenstein, 2025. Directed by Guillermo del Toro. Starring Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, Felix Kammerer, David Bradley, Lars Mikkelsen, Christian Convery, Charles Dance, and Christoph Waltz. SYNOPSIS: A brilliant but egotistical scientist brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic […]

Sundance winner Atropia gets a trailer and December release

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Vertical has released a trailer for the Sundance Grand Jury prize-winner Atropia.  Written and directed by Hailey Gates, the satire stars Alia Shawkat stars as Fayruz, an aspiring actress working in a military role-playing facility who falls in love with another actor (Callum Turner) who is cast as an insurgent soldier, but their feelings soon […]

Ian McKellen and Tramell Tillman join Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol with Johnny Depp

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The Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol is getting yet another big screen adaptation with Johnny Depp starring as Scrooge in Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol, and now as reported by Deadline, the film has added Tramell Tillman (Severance) and Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings) to the cast of this latest horror-tinged take on the holiday classic. […]

80s-inspired horror-comedy The Creeps gets a trailer ahead of Christmas release

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Ahead of its release this December, Dazzler Media has delivered a trailer and promotional images for the 80s-inspired horror-comedy The Creeps. Written and directed by Marko Mäkilaakso, the film sees a group of friends take a dream vacation at a ski resort in Finland, where they encounter a horde of nasty little creatures, sending the […]