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TV Review – Amazon’s The Wilds

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Martin Carr reviews the Amazon original series The Wilds… Lord of the Flies is a seminal piece of literature which resides on every syllabus around the world alongside arduous stuff like Beowulf. Written by Nobel Prize winning author William Golding it charts the disintegration of teenagers trapped on a remote island devoid of adults. Laden […]

Invincible animated series adds Ezra Miller, Mahershala Ali, Jon Hamm, Jonathan Groff and more

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The already impressive voice cast of Amazon’s upcoming Invincible animated series has added some additional star power with news out of the virtual CCXP Worlds event that Ezra Miller (Justice League), Mahershala Ali (Green Book), Jon Hamm (Mad Men), Jonathan Groff (Frozen), Clancy Brown (The Shawshank Redemption), Djimon Hounsou (Captain Marvel), Jeffrey Donovan (Fargo), and […]

New trailer reveals that Vikings’ final season will premiere on Amazon Prime this month

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A new trailer for Vikings has revealed that fans will experience the end much sooner than expected as the entire final season will make its way to Amazon Prime Video on December 30th. Watch the trailer below… The final ten episodes of Vikings will be available for audiences in the U.S., UK, Ireland, Germany and Australia. The series always […]

Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha star in new trailer for Amazon’s Sylvie’s Love

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Amazon has released a new trailer for the romantic drama Sylvie’s Love ahead of its premiere later this month. Written and directed by Eugene Ashe, the film follows Sylvie (Tessa Thompson), a woman who meets an aspiring saxophone player (Nnamdi Asomugha) while working in her father’s record store in 1950’s Harlem; take a look here… […]

Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings series adds 20 to its cast

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Amazon Studios has announced that it is filling out Middle-earth with the addition of twenty new cast members to its upcoming Amazon Original series based upon J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic fantasy The Lord of the Rings. The new cast members include Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Maxim Baldry, Ian Blackburn, Kip Chapman, Anthony Crum, Maxine Cunliffe, Trystan Gravelle, Lenny […]

Movie Review – I’m Your Woman (2020)

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I’m Your Woman, 2020. Directed by Julia Hart. Starring Rachel Brosnahan, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Arinzé Kene, Bill Heck, Frankie Faison, Marceline Hugot, De’Mauri Parks, Jarrod DiGiorgi, and James McMenamin. SYNOPSIS: In this 1970s set crime drama, a woman is forced to go on the run after her husband betrays his partners, sending her and her […]

Amazon cancels Utopia after a single season

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Amazon has opted against renewing its sci-fi conspiracy thriller series Utopia, with the show coming to an end after just a single season. Adapted from the cult British drama of the same name (which was itself cancelled after two seasons), Utopia follows a group of comic book fans who find themselves targeted by a shadowy organisation […]

Movie Review – Uncle Frank (2020)

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Uncle Frank, 2020. Written and Directed by Alan Ball. Starring Paul Bettany, Sophia Lillis, Peter Macdissi, Steve Zahn, Judy Greer, Margo Martindale, Stephen Root, and Lois Smith. SYNOPSIS: Accompanied by his teenage niece, a gay literature professor reluctantly returns home to attend his father’s funeral. For lack of a better phrase, I am the “Uncle […]

John Boyega stars in trailer for Steve McQueen’s Small Axe: Red, White and Blue

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Amazon has released a trailer and images for Red, White and Blue, the next instalment in Steven McQueen’s five film anthology Small Axe which stars John Boyega as a young forensic scientist who finds himself driven to achieve his childhood ambition of becoming a police officer in the naïve hope of changing racist attitudes after […]