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Mark Wahlberg tops the list of the world’s highest-paid actors

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Transformers: The Last Knight star Mark Wahlberg has topped Forbes‘ list of the highest-paid actors in actresses in the world for the period of June 2016 and June 2017, knocking last year’s champ Dwayne Johnson down into second place. Wahlberg earned $68 million thanks to the latest instalment in the Transformers franchise, as well as […]

Oscars: And the winners of the 89th Academy Awards are…

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Let’s address the elephant in the room: there was Steve Harvey-reminiscent chaos last night during the Best Picture announcement at the Academy Awards as La La Land was somehow announced as receiving the Oscar… only for producer Jordan Horowitz to correct the mistake midway through his acceptance speech when he revealed that Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight […]

La La Land takes huge receipts at the UK box office

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Critical darling and fan favourite musical La La Land is making big waves at the UK Box Office. The film from Damien Chazelle, the director of Whiplash, has stormed out of the gates in UK cinemas and has already accumulated an impressive sum of £6 million. That’s a bigger haul than Lionsgate’s Hunger Games opening […]

Movie Review – La La Land (2016)

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La La Land, 2016. Directed by Damien Chazelle. Starring Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Rosemarie DeWitt, J.K. Simmons, and John Legend. SYNOPSIS: Mia is an aspiring actress working as a barista on the Warner Bros. lot. Sebastian is a musician who harbours dreams of opening his own jazz club. The two meet and fall head over heels in […]

Movie Review – La La Land (2016)

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La La Land, 2016. Directed by Damien Chazelle Starring Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, John Legend, Rosemarie DeWitt, Finn Whitrock, and J.K. Simmons. SYNOPSIS: Dreams are chased and love is found in Damien Chazelle’s ode to Hollywood musicals and celluloid magic. On paper, La La Land, reads like it’s going to be my favourite movie of […]

52nd Chicago International Film Festival Review – La La Land (2016)

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La La Land, 2016. Directed by Damien Chazelle. Starring Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, John Legend, Rosemarie DeWitt, Finn Whitrock, and J.K. Simmons. SYNOPSIS: A jazz pianist falls for an aspiring actress in Los Angeles. How do you be revolutionary when you’re such a traditionalist? It’s a question that is presented to Sebastian (Ryan Gosling), a […]

Defending The Amazing Spider-Man

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As the wall-crawler prepares to make his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut in Captain America: Civil War, Henry Bevan defends 2012’s The Amazing Spider-Man… A child is trapped in a car that is hanging off a bridge. The hero swings down, takes off his mask and reassures the trapped child that everything is going to be […]

Emma Stone, Jonah Hill and Cary Fukunaga board Netflix’s Maniac

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Netflix and Paramount have just acquired some high-profile talent for its upcoming series Maniac. According to Deadline, Emma Stone and Jonah Hill will star in the series with True Detective‘s Cary Fukunaga set to direct all 10 episodes of the dark comedy. Production will begin this summer. This will be the first time Hill and Stone have starred […]

Sarah Silverman joins the cast of Battle of the Sexes

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After Bridge of Spies’ Austin Stowell was announced as joining the cast of upcoming tennis biopic Battle of the Sexes earlier this week, the film has now added Sarah Silverman (I Smile Back) to its swelling line-up reports Variety. The new film from Little Miss Sunshine directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris tells the story of […]