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Movie Review – Boy Erased (2018)

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Boy Erased, 2018. Directed by Joel Edgerton. Starring Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, Joel Edgerton, Troye Sivan, Xavier Dolan, Britton Sear, Jesse LaTourette, Flea, Cherry Jones, and Joe Alwyn. SYNOPSIS: When Jared Eamons (Lucas Hedges) is outed following an incident on his college campus, his staunchly Baptist preacher father (Russell Crowe), and God fearing […]

Joel Edgerton talks about “getting the team back together” for Bright 2

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While doing the press rounds for his latest directorial outing Boy Erased (read our review here), Joel Edgerton was asked about the current state of the sequel to Netflix’s buddy cup movie come fantasy, Bright, to which he responded that they’re “getting the team back together”. Speaking exclusively to Yahoo! Movies, Edgerton said that Bright […]

Exclusive Interview – Composers Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans talk Boy Erased, Joel Edgerton, and Iron Maiden

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Red Stewart chats with composers Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans…. Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans are a composing team who have been working in the film and television industries since the 2010s. They are best known for their work with their band Priestbird, as well as composing for movies The Gift, The Autopsy of Jane […]

New trailer for Joel Edgerton’s Boy Erased starring Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe

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With just two days to go until its US release, a new trailer has arrived online for Joel Edgerton’s upcoming drama Boy Erased. Based on Garrard Conley’s Boy Erased: A Memoir, the film sees Edgerton starring alongside Lucas Hedges, Troye Sivan, Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, Madelyn Cline, Victor McCay, and David Joseph Craig; watch it here… […]

Joel Edgerton’s Boy Erased gets a first poster and trailer

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Focus Features has released the first trailer and poster for Joel Edgerton’s upcoming adaptation of Garrad Conley’s memoir Boy Erased which stars Edgerton, Lucas Hedges, Troye Sivan, Nicole Kidman, and Russell Crowe; take a look here… Boy Erased tells the story of Jared (Hedges), the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, who is […]

Robert Pattinson, Ben Mendelsohn and Lily-Rose Depp join The King as filming begins

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Netflix has announced that Robert Pattinson (Good Time), Ben Mendelsohn  (Ready Player One) and Lily-Rose Depp (Yoga Hosers) have joined the cast of director David Michod’s latest project The King, which has now started production in the UK. Based on Shakespeare’s Henry the IV and V and scripted by Michod and Joel Edgerton, The King […]

First-look images from Joel Edgerton’s Boy Erased

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Focus Features has unveiled three images from Joel Edgerton’s latest directorial effort Boy Erased featuring Edgerton, Lucas Hedges, Troye Sivan, Nicole Kidman, and Russell Crowe. The film is based on Garrad Conley’s Boy Erased: A Memoir, and sees Hedges portraying Conley, who as a teenager was outed to his parents and was given the choice of […]

Netflix responds to Bright’s critical mauling

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Will Smith’s Netflix blockbuster Bright might have had a record breaking eleven million views in its first three days, but that didn’t stop it from being labelled as one of the worst films of 2017. The flawed fantasy currently sits at 26% on Rotten Tomatoes, but with plans for a sequel well underway, Netflix CEO […]

Bright is a big success for Netflix with 11 million US views in its first weekend

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Despite the critical panning that it has received, David Ayer’s Bright appears to be a resounding success for Netflix, garnering over 11 million view in the US alone in its first weekend. Whilst the Netflix model is still in its early stages, without the same sorts of lines of measurements that we would usually have for […]

Netflix confirms that we’re getting a Bright sequel, minus Max Landis

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Whatever your feelings about what many critics labelled as one of the worst films of 2017 [read our review here], Bright was watched by a lot of people. In fact, the $90m Netflix blockbuster is the highest viewed film on the streaming service’s platform in first week of release. Based on that, it’ll come as […]