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Movie Review – Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)

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Sonic the Hedgehog, 2020. Directed by Jeff Fowler. Starring Ben Schwartz, James Marsden, Jim Carrey, Tika Sumpter, Adam Pally and Natasha Rothwell. SYNOPSIS: When a power surge alerts the government to the presence of an alien hedgehog on Earth, Sonic teams up with a small town cop in an attempt to avoid the malevolent Dr […]

Movie Review – Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)

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Sonic the Hedgehog, 2020. Directed by Jeff Fowler. Starring Ben Schwartz, James Marsden, Jim Carrey, Tika Sumpter, Lee Majdoub, Frank C. Turner, Adam Pally, Natasha Rothwell, and Neal McDonough. SYNOPSIS: After discovering a small, blue, fast hedgehog, a small-town police officer must help it defeat an evil genius who wants to do experiments on it. […]

Jim Carrey becomes Robotnik in Sonic the Hedgehog featurette

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Ahead of its release this Valentine’s Day, a new ‘Becoming Robotnik’ featurette has arrived online for the upcoming video game adaptation Sonic the Hedgehog which sees star Jim Carrey discuss his role as the villain; watch it here… SEE ALSO: Sonic the Hedgehog confronts Jim Carrey’s Eggman in new clip from the movie Based on […]

Kidding Season 2 Episode 2 Review – ‘Up, Down and Everything in Between’

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Martin Carr reviews the second episode of Kidding season 2… No one thought Frank Langella did comedy and yet his delivery in Kidding is both silly, sarcastic and simultaneously savage. Like the polished gems from Airplane II nothing hits harder than a respected actor delivering pitch perfect punchlines. Off kilter, obviously enjoying himself and sparking […]

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 […]