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Amazon orders Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan TV drama to series

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Back in September of last year it was announced that development was underway on a small screen adaptation of Jack Ryan, with Amazon then snapping up the pilot and John Krasinski (The Office) signing on to play Tom Clancy’s CIA analyst. Well, now comes word that the project is officially moving ahead, with Amazon placing […]

Movie Review – Aloha (2015)

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Aloha, 2015. Directed by Cameron Crowe. Starring Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone, Rachel McAdams, Bill Murray, John Krasinski, Danny McBride and Alec Baldwin. SYNOPSIS: A celebrated military contractor returns to the site of his greatest career triumphs and re-connects with a long-ago love while unexpectedly falling for the hard-charging Air Force watchdog assigned to him. We […]

Pacific Rim actor Max Martini joins Michael Bay’s 13 Hours

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Michael Bay’s next film, which is thankfully not another Transformers entry but a Benghazi thriller called 13 Hours, has gained another cast member. According to Variety, Pacific Rim and Fifty Shades of Grey alum Max Martini has joined the film as a member of “the six-man security team that fought to defend the many Americans stationed at the compound.” Martini joins previous casting […]

John Krasinski to follow up A Quiet Place with Life on Mars

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Though John Krasinski’s latest film A Quiet Place is fresh in theatres, The Hollywood Reporter has reported he is already planning his follow up in the director’s chair. He will team up again with his Platinum Dunes partners and Quiet Place producers – Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller – for the sci-fi film Life on Mars. Life on […]

Movie Review – A Quiet Place (2018)

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A Quiet Place, 2018. Directed by John Krasinski. Starring Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds, and Noah Jupe. SYNOPSIS: A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound. A Quiet Place presents one of the worst possible scenarios to conceive and bring into the world a baby (also […]

SXSW Review – A Quiet Place (2018)

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A Quiet Place, 2018. Directed by John Krasinski. Starring John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Noah Jupe, Millicent Simmonds, and Cade Woodward. SYNOPSIS: A family lives an isolated existence in utter silence, for fear of an unknown threat that follows and attacks at any sound. The best way to describe A Quiet Place, the new film by beloved TV-actor-turned-director […]

Movie Review – Detroit (2017)

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Detroit, 2017. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow. Starring John Boyega, Will Poulter, Anthony Mackie, Jack Reynor, Hannah Murray, Algee Smith, Jacob Latimore, Jason Mitchell, Kaitlyn Dever, Ben O’Toole, Joseph David Jones, Ephraim Sykes, Leon Thomas III, Nathan Davis Jr., Peyton Alex Smith, Malcolm David Kelley, Gbenga Akinnabve, Chris Chalk, Jeremy Strong, Laz Alonzo, Austin Hebert, Miguel Pimentel, […]

Emily Blunt and John Krasinski have no regrets about not joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe

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Real life couple John Krasinski and Emily Blunt are currently celebrating the release of their acclaimed horror A Quiet Place, which is pulling in rave reviews and has just opened atop the North American box office with the second-biggest domestc opening of the year so far behind Marvel’s Black Panther. As it happens, both Blunt […]

Movie Review – A Quiet Place (2018)

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A Quiet Place, 2018. Directed by John Krasinski Starring John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe and Cade Woodward. SYNOPSIS: A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound. Nerve shredding is the best way for me to summarise the intensity of John Krasinski’s feature directorial debut […]