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FrightFest opener Broken Bird gets a trailer and poster

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Ahead of its world premiere as the opening film of FrightFest next month, a poster and trailer have arrived online for Broken Bird director Joanne Mitchell’s adaptation of the award-winning short Sybil. The gothic horror follows Sybil (Rebecca Calder), a lonely woman working at an undertakers who seeks solace in her work as she feels […]

Journey back to the beginning with latest Transformers One teaser trailer

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Paramount Pictures has released a brand new teaser for their upcoming animated film Transformers One, which explores the origin story of one-time buddies Optimus Prime and Megatron, and the events that led to their iconic rivalry.  Helping to bring the Autobots and Decepticons of Transformers One to life are the voice talents of Chris Hemsworth […]

Comic Book Preview – The Rocketeer: Breaks Free #1

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IDW Publishing launches the new four-issue miniseries The Rocketeer: Breaks Free from writer Stephen Mooney (Rocketeer: The Great Race, Half Past Danger) and artist Staz Johnson (Robin, Catwoman) this Wednesday, and you can check out the official preview below… The Rocketeer storms the City by the Bay!With Betty about to start work on a new […]

Blu-ray Review – Brokeback Mountain (2005)

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Brokeback Mountain, 2005. Directed by Ang Lee. Starring Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Linda Cardellini, Anna Faris, Anne Hathaway, Michelle Williams, and Randy Quaid. SYNOPSIS: Ang Lee’s 2005 classic Brokeback Mountain arrives on Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD from Kino Lorber, which commissioned a sparkling new 4K scan of the original camera negative. The company also […]

True Lies at 30: The Story Behind the James Cameron Action Comedy

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As it celebrates its 30th anniversary, Hasitha Fernando looks at the story behind True Lies… The world was James Cameron’s oyster in the early 90s with the back-to-back successes of Aliens, The Abyss and Terminator 2: Judgment Day. But the talented auteur was about to add another laurel to his precious wreath with 1994’s action […]

Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or-winning love-story Anora drops red band trailer

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Neon has dropped the first trailer for The Florida Project-director Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or-winning love-story Anora.  The film earned an eight-minute standing ovation at Cannes, and tells the story of Anora (Mikey Madison), an Uzbek-American stripper whose boss regularly sets her up with Russian-speaking clients. One night, she meets Vanya (Mark Eidelstein), the wealthy young […]

Digital Review – Sting (2024)

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Sting, 2024. Directed by Kiah Roache-Turner. Starring Alyla Browne, Ryan Corr, Jermaine Fowler, Penelope Mitchell, Noni Hazlehurst, Danny Kim, and Robyn Nevin. SYNOPSIS: A 12-year-old girl living in an apartment block secretly keeps a spider as a pet, unaware that it is not of this planet and will grow to be massive. Sting is a […]

Go behind-the-scenes of Stranger Things’ final season with new featurette

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As the final season of Stranger Things hits the halfway mark of filming, Netflix has shared a featurette for the highly-anticipated fifth season which sees its cast members taking fans behind-the-scenes of final chapter of the supernatural drama series. In addition to unveiling the new featurette, the streamer has also announced that Nell Fisher (Evil […]

Kate Winslet leads a star-studded cast in Lee trailer

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Roadside Attractions and Vertical have released a trailer and images for director Ellen Kuras’ biographical drama Lee. Kate Winslet stars as Lee Miller, an American war correspondent and photographer, and followed a decade in her life starting from the late 1930s as she produced some of the most indelible images of war, capturing both the […]