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Cate Blanchett is Lydia Tár in trailer for Todd Field’s TÁR

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Ahead of its world premiere this September at the 79th Venice Film Festival, Focus Features has released a poster and trailer for TÁR, the psychological drama from writer-director Todd Field and starring Cate Blanchett.From producer-writer-director Todd Field comes TÁR, starring Cate Blanchett as the iconic musician Lydia Tár. TÁR examines the changing nature of power, […]

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio comes to life with trailer for stop-motion animated adaptation

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It’s like the summer of 1998 all over again, if world-destroying astronomical objects were wooden toy boys who longed to be real… in September, Robert Zemeckis and Tom Hanks team up to bring the live-action Pinocchio to Disney+, before Netflix and Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro deliver their own take on Carlo Collodi’s classic tale […]

Netflix’s The School for Good and Evil enlists Cate Blanchett as narrator

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After dropping a first-look teaser trailer during Geeked Week earlier this month, director Paul Feig has now revealed an Oscar-winning addition to the cast of his Netflix fantasy The School for Good and Evil.Appearing at the 6th Annual Women in Entertainment Summit in Los Angeles, Feig was discussing the female stars of his adaptation of […]

Guillermo del Toro shares a set of beautiful images from his stop-motion Pinocchio

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Disney may have attempted to wow with the recent trailer for their own take on Pinocchio, but it only needed a series of sumptuous images from Guillermo del Toro’s stop-motion interpretation of the classic story to see where the real magic could be found.The Oscar-winning The Shape of Water director is finally getting the chance […]

Movie Review – Nightmare Alley (2021)

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Nightmare Alley, 2021.Directed by Guillermo del Toro. Starring Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe, Richard Jenkins, Rooney Mara, Ron Perlman, David Strathairn, Holt McCallany, Mark Povinelli, Jim Beaver, Romina Power, Paul Anderson, Clifton Collins Jr., David Hewlett, Lara Jean Chorostecki, Drew Nelson, Troy James, Dian Bachar, Linden Porco, and Tim Blake Nelson.SYNOPSIS:An ambitious […]

Sacha Baron Cohen joins Alfonso Cuarón’s Apple TV+ series Disclaimer

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Deadline is reporting that Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen is in talks to join Oscar-winning filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón’s (Gravity, Roma) Apple TV+ series Disclaimer, where he’ll join the previously announced Cate Blanchett (Nightmare Alley) and Kevin Kline (Beauty and the Beast).Based on Renee Knight’s novel, the series will see Blanchett portraying “Catherine Ravenscroft, a successful […]

Movie Review – Nightmare Alley (2021)

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Nightmare Alley, 2021.Directed by Guillermo del Toro. Starring Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe, Richard Jenkins, Rooney Mara, Ron Perlman, David Strathairn, Holt McCallany, Mark Povinelli, Jim Beaver, Romina Power, Paul Anderson, Clifton Collins Jr., David Hewlett, Lara Jean Chorostecki, Drew Nelson, Troy James, Dian Bachar, Linden Porco, and Tim Blake Nelson. SYNOPSIS: […]

Meet Ewan McGregor’s Cricket in the first teaser for Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

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In what feels like the perfect marriage of director and material, Guillermo del Toro’s long-gestating take on the classic tale of Pinocchio is finally coming to life thanks to your Netflix subscription dollars.Officially titled Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, the Academy Award winning director’s unique take features an all-star voice cast with Ewan McGregor as Cricket, […]

Video Review – Guillermo del Toro strikes again with twisted Nightmare Alley

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EJ Moreno with a video review of Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley…Constantly firing all cylinders, Guillermo del Toro hits a new level with Nightmare Alley. Gone is the filmmaker’s supernatural tinge, and in its place is something even scarier…the darkness of the human soul. Nightmare Alley is unlike anything from del Toro, and it makes […]

Movie Review – Don’t Look Up (2021)

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Don’t Look Up, 2021.Written and Directed by Adam McKay. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Rob Morgan, Jonah Hill, Mark Rylance, Tyler Perry, Timothée Chalamet, Ron Perlman, Ariana Grande, Kid Cudi, Melanie Lynskey, Himesh Patel, Michael Chiklis, Tomer Sisley, Paul Guilfoyle, Robert Joy, Ashleigh Banfield, Gina Gershon, Meghan Leathers, Ross Partridge, Frank […]