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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 […]

Paul Bettany and Sophia Lillis star in trailer for Uncle Frank

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Amazon Prime Video has released a poster and trailer for writer-director Alan Ball’s 70s-set drama Uncle Frank which stars Sophia Lillis as Beth, a young woman who leaves her rural town to study at New York University where her beloved uncle Frank (Paul Bettany) is a literature professor, she soon discovers he is gay and […]

Exclusive Interview – Fuse FX’s VFX Supervisor Wayne England talks Amazon’s Utopia

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In a career which spans over two decades, Fuse FX’s VFX Supervisor Wayne England has worked on projects as diverse as Castle Rock, Watchmen and the forthcoming Loki. Recently he took time out to talk to Martin Carr about his involvement with Amazon’s Utopia. Having worked on both Watchmen and now Utopia, what is it […]

John Noble joins The Boys as The Butcher’s father

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Tomorrow’s episode of The Boys will feature a Lord of the Rings reunion as John Noble will guest star in the series, portraying the father of Karl Urban’s Billy Butcher. Urban revealed the news on his Instagram, saying “WTF! #lordoftherings @theboystv Mashup. John Noble …aka Denethor is Butchers dad ep7. Loved working with John. His Sam Butcher […]

Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings series resumes production

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As film and television productions slowly start up again, the latest series to resume filming according to Deadline is Amazon’s Lord of the Rings. The series is being film in New Zealand, where Peter Jackson filmed his Lord of the Rings trilogy from 1999 – 2003. Production on Amazon’s series had nearly completed filming on the first […]