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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 […]

Cherry: A Must-See Tom Holland Performance | Video Review

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EJ Moreno with a video review of the Russo Brothers’ Cherry starring Tom Holland… With its vibrant energy and rambunctious personality, Cherry delights in many ways. While the film’s pacing makes you a bit of the long runtime, this latest film from Avengers: Endgame filmmakers The Russos Brothers comes together strongly. Our host EJ Moreno […]

Movie Review – Cherry (2021)

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Cherry, 2021. Directed by Joe Russo and Anthony Russo. Starring Tom Holland, Ciara Bravo, Jack Reynor, Thomas Lennon, Kelli Berglund, Forrest Goodluck, Jeffrey Wahlberg, Suhail Dabbach, and Michael Gandolfini. SYNOPSIS: An Army medic suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder becomes a serial bank robber after an addiction to drugs puts him in debt. Broken up into […]