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First teaser image from Stephen King adaptation Lisey’s Story

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Coming hot on the heels of the news that British filmmaker Edgar Wright is set to direct a new adaptation of The Running Man, we have more Stephen King-related news this evening as Apple TV+ has just shared the first teaser image for Lisey’s Story.Based on the best-selling novel by King, with each episode scripted […]

Revisiting Assassins at 25

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Tom Jolliffe looks back at the Sylvester Stallone and Antonio Banderas action vehicle Assassins as it turns 25…Starring action titan, Sylvester Stallone and Antonio Banderas hot off Desperado hitting big, came a film written by the Wachowski’s (pre fame), produced by Joel Silver and directed by Richard Donner (Lethal Weapon franchise). Every hallmark in place […]

Movie Review – The Glorias (2020)

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The Glorias, 2020.Directed by Julie Taymor. Starring Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander, Bette Midler, Lulu Wilson, Janelle Monáe, Timothy Hutton, Lorraine Toussaint, Allie McCulloch, Mo Brings Plenty, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Kimberly Guerrero, Victor Slezak, Tom Nowicki, Charles Green, Monica Sanchez, Deetta West, Bethany Geaber, Annika Pampel, and Enid Graham.SYNOPSIS:The story of feminist icon Gloria Steinem’s itinerant […]

New trailer for The Glorias starring Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander, Janelle Monáe and Bette Midler

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With a little over a week to go until it arrives on Amazon Prime, a new trailer has arrived online for The Glorias, the upcoming drama based on feminist icon and activist Gloria Steinem’s autobiography My Life on the Road, which stars Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander, Bette Midler, Janelle Monáe, Lorraine Toussaint, Lulu Wilson, Ryan […]

First poster and trailer for The Glorias starring Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander, Bette Midler and Janelle Monáe

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Ahead of its arrival on digital and streaming on Amazon Prime Video later this month, a trailer, poster and images have been released for director Julie Taymor’s upcoming drama The Glorias. Based on feminist icon, journalist, and activist Gloria Steinem’s autobiography My Life on the Road, the film stars Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander, Bette Midler, […]

Julianne Moore joins Dear Evan Hansen

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The cast of the film adaptation of the Tony Award-winning Broadway stage musical Dear Evan Hansen continues to grow as the project has added Julianne Moore (After The Wedding).Ben Platt (The Politician), who performed the title role on stage, is expected to star in the film as Evan Hansen, a sociacially-awkward teenager who unintentionally gets caught up […]

Jesse Eisenberg to direct Julianne Moore and Finn Wolfhard in When You Finish Saving the World

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Deadline is reporting that Julianne Moore (Gloria Bell) and Finn Wolfhard (Stranger Things) are set to star in When You Finish Saving the World, a comedy-drama from Jesse Eisenberg, which is inspired by his upcoming Audible Original audio series of the same name.The When You Finish Saving the World audio series is set to debut […]

Amy Adams stars in first trailer for The Woman in the Window

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20th Century Fox has released the first trailer and a poster for the upcoming thriller The Woman in the Window. Directed by Joe Wright, the film is based on A.J. Finn’s bestselling novel of the same name and stars Amy Adams as a reclusive woman living in New York who witnesses something she shouldn’t while […]

Clive Owen joins Stephen King adaptation Lisey’s Story

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Children of Men star Clive Owen has signed on to star alongside Oscar-winner Julianne Moore in the upcoming Apple TV+ adaptation of Stephen King’s Lisey’s Story, Deadline has revealed.Based on the bestselling 2016 novel, Lisey’s Story will see Moore as Lisey, a woman who is forced to confront certain realities about her late husband (Owen) […]

Movie Review – After the Wedding (2019)

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After the Wedding, 2019.Written and Directed by Bart Freundlich. Starring Michelle Williams, Julianne Moore, Billy Crudup, Abby Quinn, Alex Esola, Eisa Davis, Susan Blackwell, Azhy Robertson, Will Chase, and Doris McCarthy.SYNOPSIS:A manager of an orphanage in Kolkata travels to New York to meet a benefactor.There’s a difference between flawed likable characters and straight-up annoying characters; […]