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Johnny Depp is Hollywood’s most overpaid actor for the second year running

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2016 hasn’t been the greatest of years for Johnny Depp both personally and professionally, and now he’s rounded out the year by being named by Forbes as the most overpaid actor in Hollywood for the second year running. Forbes calculates its list by working out how much studios have earned in return for every dollar paid […]

Hollywood’s Most Overpaid Actors Are Exactly Who You’d Expect

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This week, Neil Calloway looks at a list of actors who aren’t providing much bang for their buck… Even a person who only vaguely keeps up with film news could have had a decent guess at who would make the top ten most overpaid actors list, which was revealed by Forbes magazine a few days […]

Blu-ray Review – Punch-Drunk Love (2002)

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Punch-Drunk Love, 2002. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Starring Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Luis Guzmán. SYNOPSIS: A supplier of novelty items with anger management issues edges towards a surprise romance story with a mysterious woman, while also being blackmailed by a phone-sex line managed by a devious mattress salesman. Taking the […]

Was Pixels really that bad?

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Luke Owen looks at Adam Sandler’s latest box office bomb… “It’s the cinematic equivalent of receiving a supermarket brand deodorant gift set on Christmas morning: you don’t want it, you’ll never use it, and frankly, it stinks.” – Chris Blohm, Little White Lies “Some movies are so interminable that it seems they might never end, […]

Movie Review – The Do-Over (2016)

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The Do-Over, 2016. Directed by Steven Brill Starring Adam Sandler, David Spade, Paula Patton, Kathryn Hahn, Nick Swardson, Natasha Leggero, Michael Chiklis and Sean Astin. SYNOPSIS: Two down-on-their-luck guys decide to fake their own deaths and start over with new identities, only to find the people they’re pretending to be are in even deeper trouble. […]

Movie Review – The Do-Over (2016)

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The Do-Over, 2016. Directed by Steven Brill. Starring Adam Sandler, David Spade, Paula Patton, Kathryn Hahn, Luis Guzman, Nick Swardson, Sean Astin, Matt Walsh, Catherine Bell and Michael Chiklis. SYNOPSIS: The life of a bank manager is turned upside down when a friend from his past manipulates him into faking his own death and taking off on […]

Netflix picks up Noah Baumbach’s The Meyerowitz Stories

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Netflix has added to its upcoming slate of movies by snapping up the rights to The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), the new film from director Noah Baumbach (Frances Ha, Mistress America), which stars Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman, Elizabeth Marvel, Grace Van Patten and Emma Thompson. “Noah Baumbach is an important voice in […]

Second Opinion – The Ridiculous 6 (2015)

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The Ridiculous 6, 2015. Directed by Frank Coraci. Starring Adam Sandler, Nick Nolte, Taylor Lautner, Terry Crews, Rob Schneider, Jorge Garcia, Luke Wilson, Will Forte, Danny Trejo, David Spade, Whitney Cummings, Jon Lovitz, Steve Buscemi, Harvey Keitel, Steve Zahn, Nick Swardson, John Turturro, Julia Jones, Blake Shelton, Vanilla Ice, Dan Patrick, Chris Kattan, Lavell Crawford, […]

Adam Sandler’s The Ridiculous 6 is the most watched movie in Netflix history

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He may not be popular with everyone, but there’s no arguing Adam Sandler doesn’t have an audience. Even with the box office disappointment of Pixels and critical bombs like That’s My Boy and Grown Ups 2, it’s been revealed that his latest film The Ridiculous 6 is the most watched movie in Netflix history. “The […]