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Regina King’s One Night in Miami gets a poster and trailer

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Amazon Prime Video has released a poster and trailer for Regina King’s directorial debut One Night In Miami. Based on Kemp Powers’ stage play of the same name, the drama is a fictional account of a night in 1964 when four friends, Muhammad Ali (Eli Goree), Malcolm X (Kingsley Ben-Adir), Sam Cooke (Leslie Odom Jr.), […]

Movie Review – Uncle Frank (2020)

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Uncle Frank, 2020. Written and Directed by Alan Ball. Starring Paul Bettany, Sophia Lillis, Steve Zahn, Judy Greer, Stephen Root, Peter Macdissi, Margo Martindale, Caity Brewer, Lois Smith, and Cole Doman. SYNOPSIS: In 1973, when Frank Bledsoe and his 18-year-old niece Beth take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekville, South Carolina for the family […]

Steve McQueen’s Small Axe: Lovers Rock gets a trailer from Amazon

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Amazon Prime Video has released a trailer for Lovers Rock, the second instalment in Steven McQueen’s five film anthology Small Axe which stars Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn, Micheal Ward, Shaniqua Okwok, Kedar Williams-Stirling, Ellis George, Alexander James-Blake, Kadeem Ramsay, Francis Lovehall and Daniel Francis-Swaby; watch it here.. Lovers Rock tells a fictional story of young love […]

Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology gets a new trailer

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Ahead of its premiere on Amazon Prime and the BBC later this month, a new trailer has arrived online for Small Axe, the five-film anthology from director Steve McQueen which is inspired by real-life experiences of London’s West Indian Community during the 1960s to 1980s; watch it here… “If you are the big tree, we […]

Amazon releases blooper reel for The Boys season 2

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Amazon Prime Video has released a blooper reel from the second season of The Boys which is filled with all of the “Fuck Ups” from the cast of the hit superhero series; check it out here… SEE ALSO: The Boys spin-off series fast-tracked by Amazon Studios The Boys features a cast that includes Karl Urban (Thor: Ragnarok), Jack […]

Borat 2 drew in “tens of millions” of viewers over its opening weekend says Amazon

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Borat Subsequent Moviefilm was apparently a big hit for Amazon, with the company declaring that it drew in “tens of millions” of viewers during its debut. While many are mourning the sad fate of cinemas during this global crisis and wondering if releasing a movie online is a good option, Borat 2 is providing to […]

Movie Review – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020)

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Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, 2020. Directed by Jacob Woliner. Starring Sacha Baron Cohen and Maria Bakalova. SYNOPSIS: Follow-up film to the 2006 comedy centering on the real-life adventures of a fictional Kazakh television journalist named Borat. Sacha Baron Cohen’s filmed-in-secret Borat sequel, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, is faced with over-the-odds challenges compared to your average belated comedy. Cohen […]

Tegan & Sara memoir High School to be developed as coming-of-age comedy series from Clea DuVall

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Deadline has reported that Canadian rock-pop duo Tegan & Sara’s memoir High School is set to be developed as a coming-of-age comedy series by Clea DuVall (Housebroken) for Amazon’s free IMDb TV streaming service. The series will be written by DuVall, who will also direct the pilot episode. High School is “a transcendent story of first […]

TV Review – Amazon’s Truth Seekers

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Martin Carr reviews Amazon’s Truth Seekers… There is an expectation which comes with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost now. Both are national institutions while Simon Pegg has inadvertently broken America, turned into a bona fide film star and rubs shoulders with A-list royalty. Their style of comedy is deeply rooted in characters, comes through circumstance […]