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Movie Review – Hamnet (2025)

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Hamnet, 2025. Written and Directed by Chloe Zhao. Directed by Chloe Zhao. Starring Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, and Joe Alwyn. SYNOPSIS: The powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece, Hamlet. In Hamnet, writer/director Chloe Zhao (adapting Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel) brings her gifted, gentle touch to a […]

Shortlists for the 31st Annual Critics Choice Awards Below-The-Line Categories revealed

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The Critics Choice Association (CCA) announced today the shortlists for the following below-the-line film categories for the 31st annual Critics Choice Awards: Best Casting and Ensemble, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Editing, Best Hair and Makeup, Best Production Design, Best Score, Best Song, Best Sound, Best Stunt Design, and Best Visual Effects. Sinners topped […]

Heavy metal horror is unleashed in the Devour trailer

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A trailer has landed online for Devour, the upcoming horror from writer-director Scott B. Hansen (Bad Candy). The film follows an an all-female death metal band known as ‘The Virginia Bitches’, as they become stranded in a remote town while on tour, where they forced to fight for their own survival when they fall victim […]

Trailer for rom-com The Best You Can starring Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick

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Sony Pictures has released a trailer for The Best You Can, the upcoming romantic comedy from writer-director Michael J. Weithorn which stars real-life married couple Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick. Bacon stars as Stan, an underachieving security guard who encounters buttoned-up urologist Cynthia (Sedgwick) while thwarting a robbery attempt on her stately home, leading to […]

Michael Keaton’s Batman dons the Blue & Grey Batsuit from The Flash with new Hot Toys figure

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Although he never actually got to don it in the movie, Hot Toys has put Michael Keaton in the Caped Crusader’s classic Blue & Grey suit as glimpsed in the DCEU movie The Flash for its latest sixth scale action figure offering; check out the promotional images and official details here… SEE ALSO: Batman, Catwoman […]

Movie Review – Blue Moon (2025)

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Blue Moon, 2025. Directed by Richard Linklater. Starring Ethan Hawke, Andrew Scott, Bobby Cannavale, and Margaret Qualley. SYNOPSIS: Tells the story of Lorenz Hart’s struggles with alcoholism and mental health as he tries to save face during the opening of “Oklahoma!”. Rodgers and Hart were one of the principal songwriting partnerships of the Great American […]

Stranger Things Season 5 Volume 1 trailer teases the beginning of the end

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With the hotly-anticipated premiere of Stranger Things just a few days away, Netflix has released another trailer for volume 1 of the fifth and final season of the supernatural drama series which offers another look at the citizens of Hawkins as they gear up for an epic showdown against Vecna. The cast includes Winona Ryder […]

Marvel’s The Leader joins Mezco’s One:12 Collective with new figure

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Mezco Toyz has officially unveiled its upcoming One:12 Collective action figure for the Marvel supervillain The Leader which is inspired by his comic book appearance. It is available to pre-order now, priced at $116.00; check out the promotional images here… Transformed by gamma radiation, Samuel Sterns evolved into The Leader, a being whose superhuman intellect […]

The Erotic Horror Renaissance of the 1990s: Where Cinemax Met Creature Features

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Adam Page on the erotic horror renaissance of the 90s… Look, sitting here in front of this keyboard, I can’t pretend it wasn’t a weird time. The decade of the 90s was a lot of things: flannel, teen angst, the inexplicable popularity of acid washed jeans. But somewhere between the Berlin Wall being torn down […]