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Sonic the Hedgehog director reveals the biggest challenge with making the film

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With the release date for the upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog just around the corner, director Jeff Fowler has revealed the biggest challenge the crew faced from transferring the popular video game franchise to the big screen – and it wasn’t the titular hero Sonic. In an interview with Digital Spy, Fowler revealed Sonic’s nemesis Dr. Robotnik, played […]

Sonic the Hedgehog movie gets a batch of promotional images

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With less than a month to go until the theatrical release of Sonic the Hedgehog, a batch of images have arrived online for the live-action/CG-hybrid video game adaptation which gives us another look at the movie’s titular iconic character, Jim Carrey’s Dr. Robotnik, James Marsden’s Tom, and Tika Sumpter’s Annie; check them out here… SEE […]

Tommy Lee Jones despised Jim Carrey’s “bufoonery” while working on Batman Forever

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Jim Carrey is nothing if not enigmatic. Time has done absolutely nothing to change that that fact either, if that now-infamous recent interview is any indication. For an actor who is an enigma, what better character to play but Edward Nigma a.k.a. The Riddler in Joel Schumacher’s Batman Forever? Jim Carrey in his prime. Tommy […]

Movie Review – Dark Crimes (2018)

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Dark Crimes, 2018. Directed by Alexandros Avranas. Starring Jim Carrey, Martin Csokas, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kati Outinen, Vlad Ivanov, Agata Kulesza, Robert Wieckiewicz, Piotr Glowacki, and Zbigniew Zamachowski. SYNOPSIS: A murder investigation of a slain businessman turns to clues found in an author’s book about an eerily similar crime. Based on the 2008 article “True Crimes […]

Jim Carrey speaks out on backlash to Sonic the Hedgehog movie design

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Fans of the iconic video game franchise Sonic the Hedgehog were outraged back at the start of May when Paramount Pictures unveiled the first trailer for the upcoming live-action feature film adaptation, with the filmmakers’ interpretation of the iconic Sega mascot coming under heavy fire for straying too far from the traditional Sonic look. As […]

Sonic the Hedgehog movie gets a first trailer and posters

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Fans of SEGA’s Sonic the Hedgehog now have their first full look at the upcoming live-action/animated film. Paramount has released the first trailer for the video game adaptation, which stars House of Lies‘ Ben Schwartz as Sonic and Kidding‘s Jim Carrey as his archnemesis, Dr. Robotnik. Check out the trailer below along with a couple of posters… Created in […]

First look at Jim Carrey’s Dr. Robotnik from the Sonic the Hedgehog movie

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The first look at Sonic didn’t go down too well with fans; let’s see how this glimpse of his arch-nemesis fares… With a trailer reportedly due to arrive tomorrow, SEGAbits has shared a leaked image of Jim Carrey as the villain Dr. Robotnik from the Sonic the Hedgehog movie, which has been confirmed as genuine […]

Going Straight: Seven Great Comedy Actors Who Turned Dramatic

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Freda Cooper with seven great comedy actors who turned dramatic… According to most actors, comedy is harder than drama, so finding that stars best known for giving us the giggles have played against type with huge success isn’t a big surprise.  The latest in the line of screen actors who cut their teeth on making […]

Kidding Season 1 Episode 1 Review – ‘Green Means Go’

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Martin Carr reviews the first episode of Kidding… Meta moments of darkly awkward surrealism mix with uncomfortable character revelations, making Jim Carrey’s return to television difficult viewing. Headlined by an oddly aloof yet benign children’s television presenter, Kidding reveals itself slowly never allowing the audience too close. Screen time is split evenly between Frank Langella, […]