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4K Ultra HD Review – Barbie (2023)

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Barbie, 2023. Directed by Greta Gerwig. Starring Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera, Will Ferrell, Kate McKinnon, Ariana Greenblatt, Issa Rae, Rhea Perlman, Hari Nef, Emma Mackey, Alexandra Shipp, Connor Swindells, Michael Cera, Helen Mirren, Simu Liu, Sharon Rooney, Dua Lipa, John Cena, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Scott Evans, Jamie Demetriou, Ncuti Gatwa, Nicola Coughlan, Emerald Fennell, […]

Ranking the Major Best Picture Contenders for the 2024 Oscars

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EJ Moreno looks at films heading for the 2024 Oscars… As we enter the New Year and the 2024 award season begins, the contenders for Best Picture are starting to take shape.  While anything can happen from now to the Oscars in March, we have over ten films that most likely play a part in […]

Has the Oscars Finally Embraced “The Weird”?

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EJ Moreno looks at the Academy Awards and the new era of films vying for recognition… As we enter a new awards season, it’s refreshing to look at the landscape of potential contenders. Loving the race to the Academy Awards for decades and later entering my own awards season as a Critics Choice Association voter, […]

Zack Snyder claims more people saw Netflix’s Rebel Moon than Barbie

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If Zack Snyder has something to promote, you can be sure the filmmaker will have some hot takes and notable quotes. The latest comes from Snyder’s appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast, with Snyder opening up about the Netflix business model, including views and just how many eyes are on their work. Snyder unleashed what […]

Dorian Film Awards winners see All of Us Strangers and Greta Gerwig take top prizes

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For its 15th Dorian Film Awards, GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics fully embraced All of Us Strangers, writer-director Andrew Haigh’s fantastical and tear-inducing tale of two troubled souls falling for each other in lonely London. The 500-member strong GALECA, one of the largest entertainment journalists organizations in the world, named Strangers both Film […]

The Cult Film of 2023: Saltburn

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It’s time to look back at the dazzling, stylish and shocking cult film Saltburn (spoilers follow)… 2023 was a pretty interesting year in cinema. It may just be that we saw a turning point in audience tastes, with comic book films and franchise sequels mostly underperforming, whilst the grand success of Barbenheimer showed two things. […]

Greta Gerwig says Barbie couldn’t have been made without Wonder Woman

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“If you can see it, you can be it.” That’s the mentality about a lot of inclusion in filmmaking, essentially saying if you see a woman or POC in a position you want, you know it’s a reality. That’s what Greta Gerwig feels when she looks at getting a blockbuster like Barbie made. In a […]

What Are The Best Female-Led Blockbusters?

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EJ Moreno looks at eight of the best women-led blockbusters… We are entering almost unknown territory with the success of Barbie. As the film inches to half a billion in just one week of release, we see a female-led (and female-directed) blockbuster hit heights we never thought possible. With only Captain Marvel in the billion-dollar […]

Mockbuster Barbenheimer is currently in production at Full Moon Features

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You can only imagine the Barbenheimer madness that dominated the cinema landscape this year and inspired many people. From studio execs to filmmakers, everyone is trying to cash in on their version of this madness, and one studio has found its perfect route. Legendary low-budget filmmaker Charles Band’s Full Moon Features is developing Barbenheimer, a […]