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A new Doctor Who mystery for The War Doctor available to preorder now from Big Finish

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Big Finish Productions has a brand new audio adventure available to pre-order (prior to its release in May) for those who are fans of the War Doctor. The War Doctor Rises: Fallen Heroes takes the action away from the Daleks and Gallifrey to the backwater planet of Falk, where the mayor is the victim in a […]

Oft-delayed Red Sonja reboot to finally get 2025 release

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Having been gathering dust for two years in post-production purgatory, the oft-delayed Red Sonja reboot is finally set to secure a release in 2025.  According to Deadline, Signature Entertainment has picked up the rights to the fantasy flick from Millennium Media, and will release it in U.K. and Irish cinemas sometime this year. Millennium had […]

Captain America earns $192 million worldwide, while Bridget Jones does boffo box office

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Despite soft projections and a mixed critical response, Marvel Studios’ Captain America: Brave New World has posted decent numbers from its opening weekend at the worldwide box-office.  We called Brave New World the “same new mediocrity” in our ★★ review (which you can read here), and the film launched with 51% on Rotten Tomatoes, but […]

The Breakfast Club at 40: The Story Behind the Quintessential Coming-of-Age Teen Drama of the 80s

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As the film turns 40, Hasitha Fernando looks at the story behind John Hughes’ 80s classic The Breakfast Club… John Hughes is a name that is synonymous with coming-of-age teen dramas and the 1980s era but one film has always stood out as one of the filmmaker’s best efforts and that is The Breakfast Club. […]

Blu-ray Review – Legend of the Eight Samurai (1983)

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Legend of the Eight Samurai, 1983. Directed by Kinji Fukasaku. Starring Hiroko Yakushimaru, Sonny Chiba, Hiroyuki Sanada, Yuki Meguro, Masaki Kyômoto, Kenji Ôba, and Mari Natsuki.   SYNOPSIS: A princess is hunted down by a rival clan, who were destroyed and have been reanimated as demons. Based on the expansive 19th century novel Nanso Satomi […]

Ethan Hawke and Russell Crowe to star in The Weight

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The Hollywood Reporter has revealed a powerhouse team-up between Ethan Hawke and Russell Crowe. The outlet reports that Hawke and Crowe will star in The Weight, an upcoming historical period epic set in Oregon in 1933. Padraic McKinley will direct from an original screenplay by Shelby Gaines, Matthew Chapman, and Matthew Booi, based on an original story […]

David Lynch: American Cinema’s Great Enigma

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Simon Thompson explores the career of the late, great David Lynch… To start this article off as simply as possible, David Lynch, one of American cinema’s greatest idiosyncratic directors is gone. While I knew that his health had sadly taken a turn for the worse since 2020, it still feels almost impossible to come to […]

Catherine Zeta-Jones to star in thriller series Kill Jackie

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The powerhouse Oscar, BAFTA, and Tony Award-winner Catherine Zeta-Jones has a big new series ahead as Zeta-Jones will star in an adaptation of Aidan Truhen’s “gonzo thriller” The Price You Pay, currently under the working title of Kill Jackie. Per Deadline, “the series is for Prime Video, Fremantle, and Steel Springs Pictures. Amazon has rights in several […]

Comic Book Preview – Alien: Paradiso #3

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Marvel Comics releases Alien: Paradiso #3 on Wednesday, and you can take a look at the official preview of the issue below… TSULA KANE FACES HER FATHER’S FATE: DEATH by XENO! Decades ago, Weyland-Yutani swept Thomas Kane’s violent death on the Nostromo under the rug, hiding the truth even from the wife and child who […]