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Barbie & Oppenheimer are already breaking box office records

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This morning it was wonderful to sit in a 10.20am showing of Christopher Nolan’s three-hour biopic Oppenheimer with barely a seat left in the auditorium, and equally joyous to walk through a foyer filled with excited fans of all ages decked in pink, queuing for Great Gerwig’s Barbie. It’s a scene being reflected at the […]

Movie Review – Barbie (2023)

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Barbie, 2023. Directed by Greta Gerwig. Starring Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera, Will Ferrell, Kate McKinnon, Ariana Greenblatt, Issa Rae, Rhea Perlman, Hari Nef, Emma Mackey, Alexandra Shipp, Connor Swindells, Michael Cera, Helen Mirren, Simu Liu, Sharon Rooney, Dua Lipa, John Cena, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Scott Evans, Jamie Demetriou, Ncuti Gatwa, Nicola Coughlan, Emerald Fennell, […]

Ryan Gosling gets his own musical number in ‘Just Ken’ Barbie trailer

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With Greta Gerwig’s Barbie finally set to be unboxed in just under two weeks time, Warner Bros. has released a brand new trailer which puts the spotlight on Ryan Gosling’s forlorn figure of Ken. The trailer gives the La La Land star the opportunity to flex those vocal chords once again as he sings about […]

Greta Gerwig to write and direct at least two Chronicles of Narnia films for Netflix

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Once Greta Gerwig has put the toys away following the kid-at-Christmas excitement for her latest directorial effort Barbie, the Oscar-nominated Little Women helmer will once again pick up a book to write-and-direct at least two films based on C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia for Netflix.  According to an article in The New Yorker, […]

Margot Robbie’s Barbie goes to jail in new official trailer

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Between Suicide Squad and now Barbie, you can’t keep Margot Robbie’s movie characters out of jail. But this time, our blonde bombshell was wrongly imprisoned alongside her beau Ken after a stranger assaulted Barbie. It seems like that happens when Barbie enters the real world, and we get our first glimpse at what this Greta […]

Margot Robbie’s Barbie movie gets a trailer and huge batch of character posters

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Warner Bros. has released a new trailer for Greta Gerwig’s hotly-anticipated live-action Barbie feature, along with a huge batch of character posters which put the spotlight on the different variations of Barbie and Ken, their friends Allan and Midge, and the movie’s real-world characters; check them out here… Directed by Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird, Little Women), […]

Movie Review – White Noise (2022)

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White Noise, 2022. Written & Directed by Noah Baumbach. Starring Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Raffey Cassidy, Sam Nivola, May Nivola, Don Cheadle, Jodie Turner-Smith, André Benjamin, Lars Eidinger, Barbara Sukowa, Mike Gassaway, Matthew Shear, Francis Jue, Danny Wolohan, J. David Hinze, Logan Fry, Thomas W. Wolf, Bob Gray, Erik Moth, Bill Camp, and Gideon Glick. […]

Margot Robbie brings Barbie to life in first teaser trailer for Warner Bros. movie

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Currently showing in cinemas alongside James Cameron’s Avatar: the Way of Water, Warner Bros. has released the first poster and a 2001: A Space Odyssey-inspired teaser trailer for Greta Gerwig’s eagerly-anticipated live-action Barbie movie which gives us our first look at Margot Robbie as the iconic doll, including a homage to the very first ever […]

Movie Review – White Noise (2022)

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White Noise, 2022. Directed by Noah Baumbach. Starring Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Raffey Cassidy, Sam Nivola, May Nivola, Don Cheadle, Jodie Turner-Smith, André 3000, Lars Eidinger, Barbara Sukowa, Mike Gassaway, Matthew Shear, Francis Jue, Danny Wolohan, J. David Hinze, Logan Fry, Thomas W. Wolf, Bob Gray, Erik Moth, Bill Camp, and Gideon Glick. SYNOPSIS: Jack […]