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Cocaine Bear teaser celebrates “The Greatest Movie of All Time”

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With a month to go until Cocaine Bear begins his coked-up rampage through cinemas, Universal Pictures has released a TV spot that perfectly captures the tongue in cheek tone of Elizabeth Banks’ dark comedy. Telling the true story of an oddball collective of people who find themselves at the mercy of a 500-pound black bear […]

Movie Review – Call Jane (2022)

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Call Jane, 2022. Directed by Phyllis Nagy. Starring Elizabeth Banks, Sigourney Weaver, Chris Messina, Wunmi Mosaku, Kate Mara, Cory Michael Smith, Grace Edwards, John Magaro, Aida Turturro, Emily Creighton, Gina Jun, Rebecca Henderson, Bianca D’Ambrosio, Evangeline Young, Kristina Harrison, Alison Jaye, Kayla Foster, John Rothman, Bruce MacVittie, Maia Scalia, and Geoffrey Cantor. SYNOPSIS: A married […]

A coked up bear runs wild in trailer for Elizabeth Banks’ Cocaine Bear

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Universal Pictures has debuted the first trailer for director Elizabeth Banks’ dark comedy Cocaine Bear. The film follows an oddball group of people as they find themselves at the mercy of a 500-pound black bear in a Georgia forest when it goes on a drug-fueled rampage after accidentally ingesting a staggering amount of cocaine. Inspired […]

Guest stars announced for season 9 of Curb Your Enthusiasm

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It feels like ages since we have felt that familiar pang of anxiety that always comes with watching Larry David’s world get turned upside down in Curb Your Enthusiasm. After a phenomenal Season 8, the show took a lengthy break, which is par for the course with Larry David: The comedian/writer has always stated that […]

Say hello to Cocaine Bear on poster for Elizabeth Banks’ crazy true story

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It’s a case of it does what it says on the tin with the first-look poster for Elizabeth Banks’ inspired by true events thriller Cocaine Bear. Said “true events” focus on a 1985 incident featuring the titular bear, who was found dead in Kentucky after eating roughly $15 million worth of coke from a duffle […]

Will the studios learn their lesson after a year full of box office duds?

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Tom Jolliffe looks at some of the box office bombs in 2019, and whether studios will learn from their mistakes… 2019 has been an interesting year. There have been the expected successes with Marvel (particularly Avengers: Endgame), and unexpectedly gargantuan success with Joker (which was expected to do well, but that well?). Like every year […]

New clip from The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1

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Ahead of its release tomorrow, Lionsgate has dropped a new clip from The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 featuring Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss and Mahershala Ali’s Boggs; check it out below… The worldwide phenomenon of The Hunger Games continues to set the world on fire with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, which finds […]

Elizabeth Banks on her failed Charlie’s Angels reboot: “I didn’t make it just for girls”

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We all remember Elizabeth Banks’ Charlie’s Angels movie, right? Released months before the COVID-10 pandemic shook the landscape of the world and pop culture, Banks tried to reboot Charlie’s Angels, which was met with little fanfare. Some of the backlashes towards the film was the marketing, which focused heavily on the “girl power” aspects of […]

Movie Review – Call Jane (2022)

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Call Jane, 2022. Directed by Phyllis Nagy. Starring Elizabeth Banks, Sigourney Weaver, Chris Messina, Kate Mara, Wunmi Mosaku, and Cory Michael Smith. SYNOPSIS: A married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time where she can’t get a legal abortion, and works with a group of suburban women to find help. Oscar-nominated Carol writer […]