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Carey Mulligan in talks for Greta Gerwig’s Narnia

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Greta Gerwig’s upcoming adaptation of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew is set to fill a key role as Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman) in talks to join the film per The Hollywood Reporter. The new Narnia films from Gerwig and Netflix will follow a different format than the previous films by beginning this adaptation chronologically rather than […]

Greta Gerwig’s Narnia casts Emma Mackey as the White Witch

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As Netflix and Barbie director Greta Gerwig prepare their take on The Chronicles of Narnia, they have filled one of the film’s most important roles as Emma Mackey (Sex Education) is set to play Jadis, better known as The White Witch. The new Narnia films from Gerwig and Netflix will follow a different format than the previous films by beginning […]

Blu-ray Review -The House of the Devil (2009)

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The House of the Devil, 2009. Directed by Ti West. Starring Jocelin Donahue, Tom Noonan, Mary Woronov, AJ Bowen, Dee Wallace, Brenda Cooney, and Greta Gerwig. SYNOPSIS: A university student accepts a babysitting job that turns out not to be quite what was advertised. Harking back to an era when these types of movies were […]

Meryl Streep set to play Aslan in Greta Gerwig’s The Chronicles of Narnia movie

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Greta Gerwig’s Netflix Narnia movie appears to have cast one of its most iconic characters with the news that Meryl Streep is set to voice Aslan the Great Lion. Per Nexus Point News (and confirmed by sources at Deadline) the Academy Award winner has been offered the role of the talking lion, who will be […]

Dorian Film Awards winners see All of Us Strangers and Greta Gerwig take top prizes

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For its 15th Dorian Film Awards, GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics fully embraced All of Us Strangers, writer-director Andrew Haigh’s fantastical and tear-inducing tale of two troubled souls falling for each other in lonely London. The 500-member strong GALECA, one of the largest entertainment journalists organizations in the world, named Strangers both Film […]

Greta Gerwig says Barbie couldn’t have been made without Wonder Woman

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“If you can see it, you can be it.” That’s the mentality about a lot of inclusion in filmmaking, essentially saying if you see a woman or POC in a position you want, you know it’s a reality. That’s what Greta Gerwig feels when she looks at getting a blockbuster like Barbie made. In a […]

Netflix says Greta Gerwig’s Chronicles of Narnia adaptation will look to cover “the whole arc”

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Netflix is preparing itself for The Chronicles of Narnia with Barbie director Greta Gerwig at the helm. Film chief Scott Stuber tells Variety during a Q&A with executive editor Brent Lang at Variety’s Business Managers Elite Breakfast that Gerwig is “set to break the whole arc.” Stuber opens up about working with Gerwig and his […]

Has the Oscars Finally Embraced “The Weird”?

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EJ Moreno looks at the Academy Awards and the new era of films vying for recognition… As we enter a new awards season, it’s refreshing to look at the landscape of potential contenders. Loving the race to the Academy Awards for decades and later entering my own awards season as a Critics Choice Association voter, […]