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7 Kick-Ass Female-Led Action Movies

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Casey Chong with seven female-led action movies that are worth your time… Action movies may have been traditionally dominated by men but the opposite sex have also had their fair share of notable efforts. From Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley taking down the Xenomorphs in the Alien movies to Uma Thurman’s The Bride slicing and dicing her […]

Movie Review – Maria (2024)

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Maria, 2024. Directed by Pablo Larraín. Starring Angelina Jolie, Pierfrancesco Favino, Alba Rohrwacher, Haluk Bilginer, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Valeria Golino, Stephen Ashfield, Alessandro Bressanello, Vincent Macaigne, Lydia Korniordou, Caspar Phillipson, Paul Spera, Aggelina Papadopoulou, Christiana Aloneftis, and Erophilie Panagiotarea. SYNOPSIS: Follows the life story of the world’s greatest opera singer, Maria Callas, during her final days […]

Angelina Jolie is Maria Callas in teaser trailer for biopic Maria

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StudioCanal has shared a trailer Maria, the latest biographical drama from director Pablo Larrain (Jackie, Spencer) which stars Angelina Jolie in the titular role as Maria Callas and tells the story of the renowned opera singer’s final days in 1970s Paris. Joining Jolie in the cast are Pierfrancesco Favino, Alba Rohrwacher, Haluk Bilginer, and Kodi […]

First look at Angelina Jolie in Pablo Larraín’s Maria Callas biopic

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Pablo Larraín, he of brilliant biopics Jackie and Diana, has unveiled a first-look at Angelina Jolie in his latest retrospective of a female icon, Maria.  Maria, a film about the life of American-born Greek soprano Maria Callas, has been written by Peaky Blinders creator and Spencer scribe Steven Knight, and is based on true accounts to tell the […]

Angelina Jolie and Halle Berry to face off in Bond vs. Bourne-style action thriller Maude v Maude

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The Academy Award winning duo of Angelina Jolie and Halle Berry are set to go head-to-head in Warner Bros. action-thriller Maude v Maude.  According to Deadline Warner Bros has landed the project following an intense bidding-war, and that Jolie and Berry will produce the film as-well-as headlining the action, which will be orchestrated by Shadow […]

Pablo Larraín to direct Angelina Jolie in Maria Callas biopic

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Pablo Larraín is set to continue his trend for biopics depicting some of history’s most iconic women with the news that he is set to direct Angelina Jolie in a film about legendary soprano Maria Callas. Following his Oscar bothering one-two of Jackie and Spencer, Deadline report that the Chilean filmmaker will direct Maria, a […]

Salma Hayek to star in Angelina Jolie’s Without Blood

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Deadline is reporting that Salma Hayek is set to reunite with her Eternals co-star Angelina Jolie as she takes on a role in the latter’s new directorial offering Without Blood. An adaptation of Alessandro Baricco’s bestselling novel, Without Blood is described as “a fable set in the aftermath of an unidentified conflict in a farmhouse […]

Chloé Zhao opens up about Eternals’ divisiveness

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Now that the water around the fallen Celestial statues is a lot calmer, Eternals director Chloé Zhao has been speaking exclusively to Empire Magazine about the divided critical reception to her unique entry into the IP heavy world of the MCU. Eternals was always going to be a challenging film to gauge; featuring no recognisable […]

The Contemporary Queens of Action Cinema

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Tom Jolliffe on the current leading ladies of action… The 21st century has seen many things. Among those has been a push for equality across all spectrums. Of course there’s work still to be done, but progress has at least been made. The action genre has historically been monopolised by male stars. This was slightly […]