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Movie Review – Crisis (2021)

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Crisis, 2021. Written and Directed by Nicholas Jarecki. Starring Gary Oldman, Armie Hammer, Evangeline Lilly, Greg Kinnear, Michelle Rodriguez, Luke Evans, Lily-Rose Depp, Kid Cudi, Veronica Ferres, Mia Kirshner, Indira Varma, Martin Donovan, Michael Aronov, Toni Garrn, Ellora Torchia, Adam Tsekhman, Sara Sampaio, Nicholas Jarecki, Éric Bruneau, Duke Nicholson, Daniel Jun, Benz Antoine, and Kwasi […]

Watch Gary Oldman, Evangeline Lilly, Armie Hammer and more in trailer for Crisis

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The last time such a star-studded ensemble was put together to weave a tapestry depicting a drug war we got Steven Soderbergh’s Oscar-winning Traffic. Now Nicholas Jarecki, with his first film since 2012’s terrific Arbitrage, is hoping his multi-stranded opioid war epic Crisis can achieve similar success. Starring Gary Oldman (Mank), Armie Hammer (Call Me […]

Movie Review – Crisis (2021)

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Crisis, 2021. Directed by Nicholas Jarecki. Starring Gary Oldman, Armie Hammer, Evangeline Lilly, Greg Kinnear, Michelle Rodriguez, Luke Evans, Lily-Rose Depp, Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi, Duke Nicholson, Veronica Ferres, and Martin Donovan. SYNOPSIS: A drug trafficker organizes a smuggling operation while a recovering addict seeks the truth behind her son’s disappearance. The opioid crisis has […]

The Greatest Movie Vampires of All Time

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Laura Jorden on the greatest vampires to grace cinema… Vampires are such an iconic part of pop culture that it shouldn’t come as a surprise just how many of them there are. Over the decades we have had tons of artists and creatives put their own spin on this trope, transforming them into all sorts […]

Movie Review – Mank (2020)

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Mank, 2020. Directed by David Fincher. Starring Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, Charles Dance, Lily Collins, Tuppence Middleton, and Tom Burke. SYNOPSIS: 1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing wit and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish “Citizen Kane.” In attempting to reconcile alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz’s quest to […]

Movie Review – Mank (2020)

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Mank, 2020. Directed by David Fincher. Starring Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins, Tom Pelphrey, Arliss Howard, Tuppence Middleton, Monika Grossmann, Joseph Cross, Sam Troughton, Toby Leonard Moore, Tom Burke and Charles Dance. SYNOPSIS: Holed up in a cabin devoid of alcohol and distractions Herman J. Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman) is being paid to write something […]

Movie Review – The Hitman’s Bodyguard (2017)

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The Hitman’s Bodyguard, 2017. Directed by Patrick Hughes. Starring Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson, Salma Hayek, Gary Oldman, and Elodie Yung. SYNOPSIS: A top-rated bodyguard struggling to rebuild his reputation after a calamitous mistake, is forced to help deliver an infamous hitman to testify at the trial of a murderous dictator. From Shane Black’s Lethal […]

Movie Review – Mank (2020)

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Mank, 2020. Directed by David Fincher. Starring Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, Charles Dance, Lily Collins, Arliss Howard, Tom Pelphrey, Sam Troughton, Ferdinand Kingsley, Tuppence Middleton, Tom Burke, Joseph Cross, Jamie McShane, Toby Leonard Moore, Monika Gossmann, Leven Rambin, Craig Robert Young, Randy Davison, Jack Romano, Craig Welzbacher, Adam Shapiro, Paul Fox, Jessie Cohen, Amie Farrell, […]

David Fincher’s Mank gets a new trailer and poster

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Ahead of its arrival on Netflix this December, the streaming service has released a new trailer and poster for David Fincher’s biographical drama Mank which sees Gary Oldman lead the cast as Hollywood screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz; take a look here… 1930s Hollywood is re-evaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter […]

First teaser trailer for Netflix and David Fincher’s Mank

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David Fincher is back with a brand new film Mank, which dives into a fairly iconic name in the world of film. Fincher looks to tackle the story of screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz during one of the most infamous times in his life, the race to finish the script for Citizen Kane. In this first […]