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Luke Evans joins Apple’s action drama series Echo 3

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Luke Evans (Nine Perfect Strangers) has been cast in Apple’s upcoming action drama series Echo 3. The series comes from writer Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker) and is based on the Israeli hit series When Heroes Fly and the novel of the same name by Amir Gutfreund. Echo 3  is set in South America follows “Amber Chesborough, […]

Ted Lasso season 2 trailer released by Apple TV+

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Apple TV+ has released a trailer for the second season of its award-winning comedy series Ted Lasso which arrives on the streaming service this July; watch it here… Golden Globe® winner Jason Sudeikis is Ted Lasso, an American football coach hired to manage a British soccer team—despite having no experience. But what he lacks in […]

Apple TV+ Review – The Mosquito Coast

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Martin Carr reviews Apple TV+’s The Mosquito Coast… In 1986 Paul Shrader and Peter Weir tackled The Mosquito Coast on film. They created in the process a densely layered allegorical diatribe on the evils of consumerism. With Harrison Ford as the headliner and strong support from River Phoenix, it intentionally undermined an era defined by […]

Justin Timberlake to headline Confessions of a Dangerous Mind for Apple TV+

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Following the success of their recent collaboration, the redemptive tearjerker Palmer, Justin Timberlake has been tapped to star in Apple TV’s adaptation of Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. As reported by Deadline, Timberlake will play gong-show host Chuck Barris, who revealed in his 1984 memoir Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, that his job as a […]

Writer Eric Roth calls Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon “one for the ages”

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Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, based on David Grann’s bestseller Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, was always going to be high on the audience’s most-wanted list having secured Robert DeNiro, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Jesse Plemons before being snapped up by Apple. Now its writer Eric Roth […]

New trailer for The Mosquito Coast starring Justin Theroux and Melissa George

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Ahead of its premiere on Apple TV+ later this month, a new trailer has been released for the upcoming drama series The Mosquito Coast, Rupert Wyatt’s upcoming adaptation of Paul Theroux’s 1981 novel, which stars Justin Theroux as a radical idealist who uproots his wife and children (Melissa George, Logan Polish and Gabriel Bateman) and […]

Tom Hiddleston joins Claire Danes in Apple TV+ adaptation of The Essex Serpent

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Tom Hiddleston already has one of the most eagerly anticipated television series waiting to debut on Disney+ in the form of Loki, and now Variety are reporting that he will remain on the small-screen after joining Claire Danes in the Apple TV+ drama The Essex Serpent. An adaptation of the Sarah Perry novel of the […]

Apple TV+ Review – Calls

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Martin Carr reviews Apple TV+’s Calls… Adapted from the French short form series and written and directed by Fede Alvarez (Evil Dead, Don’t Breathe), Calls is a strange proposition for consumers of conventional content. Split over nine episodes varying in length from fifteen to twenty minutes, this format is reminiscent of a radio play. Featuring […]

Apple TV+ releases trailer for star-studded thriller Calls

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With a little over two weeks to go until it premieres on Apple TV+, a trailer has been released for Calls, the upcoming thriller based on the French series of the same name. Directed by Fede Alvarez (Don’t Breathe), the story told entirely through nine seemingly unconnected 12-minute phone conversations which unfold a darkly dramatic […]