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Emily Blunt and Chris Evans’ pharma-drama Pain Hustlers gets a trailer

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Director David Yates swaps Potter for prescription medication in the first trailer for the Emily Blunt and Chris Evans-led big pharma drama Pain Hustlers. Inspired by Evan Hughes’ book Pain Hustlers: Crime and Punishment at an Opioid Startup, the Netflix film also stars Catherine O’Hara, Amit Shah, and Andy Garcia; check out the posters and […]

Emily Blunt and Chris Evans are Pain Hustlers in first look at Netflix’s Big Pharma crime drama

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With Pain Hustlers set to receive its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival next week, Netflix has released four first-look images from Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts director David Yates’ Big Pharma crime drama. Inspired by Evan Hughes’ book Pain Hustlers: Crime and Punishment at an Opioid Startup, the images feature Emily Blunt and […]

Movie Review – Oppenheimer (2023)

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Oppenheimer, 2023. Written and Directed by Christopher Nolan. Starring Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Benny Safdie, Michael Angarano, Josh Hartnett, Rami Malek, Kenneth Branagh, Dane DeHaan, Dylan Arnold, David Krumholtz, Alden Ehrenreich, Matthew Modine, Gary Oldman, Alex Wolff, Casey Affleck, Jack Quaid, Emma Dumont, Matthias Schweighöfer, David Dastmalchian, Olli […]

Oppenheimer featurette highlights the Trinity Test

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Ahead of the film’s hotly-anticipated release this week,, Universal Pictures has shared another featurette for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, which see director Nolan and stars Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, Josh Hartnett, Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh, and Cillian Murphy discuss the recreation of the Trinity Test, the world’s first detonation of a nuclear weapon; watch it […]

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer featurette pushes the button

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Hot on the heels of spectacular first reactions coming out of its world premiere, Universal Pictures has released a ‘Pushing the Button’ featurette for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, which sees stars Matt Damon, Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr., Emily Blunt, Kenneth Branagh, Florence Pugh, director Nolan, and members of the crew take us behind the scenes […]

IMAX teaser takes us behind the scenes of Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer

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Universal Pictures has shared a brand new poster and IMAX teaser for Oppenheimer, which showcases why the big-screen format is so important to writer-director Christopher Nolan in order to tell the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and […]

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer unleashes new trailer

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Following on from yesterday’s poster, Universal Pictures has now shared a new trailer for Oppenheimer, the star-studded biographical thriller from writer-director Christopher Nolan which is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin; watch it below… “The IMAX-shot epic thriller […]

Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt and Robert Downey Jr. featured in new Oppenheimer images

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Universal Pictures has offered fans a sneak peek at Christopher Nolan’s hotly-anticipated next film Oppenheimer with the release of several new images from the biographical thriller featuring stars Cillian Murphy as Manhattan Project director J. Robert Oppenheimer, Emily Blunt as his wife Kitty Oppenheimer, and Robert Downey Jr. as Lewis Strauss, chairman of the US Atomic […]

4K Ultra HD Review – Looper (2012)

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Looper, 2012. Directed by Rian Johnson. Starring Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, Noah Segan, Piper Perabo, and Jeff Daniels. SYNOPSIS: Looper arrives on 4K for its tenth anniversary. The film looks stunning in that format, of course, and the included Blu-ray is no slouch either. All the bonus features from the original […]

Movie Review – The Girl on the Train (2016)

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The Girl on the Train, 2016. Directed by Tate Taylor Starring Emily Blunt, Rebecca Ferguson, Haley Bennett, Luke Evans, Justin Theroux and Allison Janney. SYNOPSIS: Still reeling in the aftermath of her divorce, Rachel (Emily Blunt) takes the train in and out of the city every day, even though she’s no longer working.  Her route […]