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The Flintstones sequel series Bedrock gets series order, sets cast

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One of animation’s most famous families is returning to TV as Fox has ordered Bedrock, a sequel series to The Flintstones that follows an adult Pebbles with Elizabeth Banks (Cocaine Bear) leading the cast and executive producing. Bedrock “catches up with the Flintstone family two decades later, with Fred on the brink of retirement and 20-something Pebbles […]

Movie Review – Cocaine Bear (2023)

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Cocaine Bear, 2023. Directed by Elizabeth Banks. Starring Keri Russell, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Alden Ehrenreich, Ray Liotta, Kristofer Hivju, Margo Martindale, Christian Convery, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Brooklynn Prince, Kahyun Kim, Scott Seiss, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Ayoola Smart, Aaron Holliday, Conor Lambert, Shane Connellan, J.B. Moore, Leo Hanna, Oisín Nolan, Christopher Livingston, and Matthew Rhys. SYNOPSIS: […]

2023 Is All About Cocaine Bear

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Is Cocaine Bear the must-see film of 2023? We take a look ahead to Elizabeth Banks’ redemption film… There are some film titles that just demand to be watched. Sometimes it’s because they sound so ludicrous as to feel unmissable. It’s also particularly enticing if these happen to be horror or creature themed. Snakes on […]

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 […]