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Alicia Vikander joins Julianne Moore in My Life On the Road

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Tomb Raider star Alicia Vikander is joining fellow Oscar-winner Julianne Moore in My Life On the Road, an adaptation of feminist icon Gloria Steinem’s memoir.Both actresses will portray Steinem at different points in her life, with Vikander portraying her during her formative years from around age 20 and Moore taking over as Steinem grows from […]

Anthony Mackie joins Amy Adams and Julianne Moore in The Woman in the Window

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Anthony Mackie is the latest to join the star studded cast of The Woman in the Window. Per Variety, the Avengers: Infinity War actor joins Amy Adams, Julianne Moore, Gary Oldman, Wyatt Russell and Bryan Tyree Henry in Joe Wright’s (The Darkest Hour) adaptation of A.J. Finn’s bestselling novel.Described as a nod to Alfred Hitchcock’s Read Window, the […]

New poster and trailer for Bel Canto starring Julianne Moore and Ken Watanabe

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Ahead of its release next month, Screen Media Films has revealed a new poster and trailer for the upcoming thriller Bel Canto. Based on Ann Patchett’s best-selling novel, the film sees Paul Weitz directing a cast that includes Julianne Moore, Ken Watanabe, Sebastian Koch, Christopher Lambert, Ryo Kase, Tenoch Huerta, and Maria Mercedes Coro; take a look […]

Julianne Moore to star in After the Wedding remake

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Oscar winner Julianne Moore (Still Alice) has signed on to appear in After the Wedding, a remake of Susanne Bier’s Academy Award-nominated Danish drama, which is being written and directed by Bart Freundlich (The Rebound).The project will reimagine the original film – which starred Mads Mikkelsen (Hannibal) and Sidse Babett Knudsen (Westworld) – and feature […]

Movie Review – Suburbicon (2017)

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Suburbicon, 2017.Directed by George Clooney. Starring Matt Damon, Julianne Moore, Noah Jupe, Glenn Fleshler, Gary Basaraba, Karimah Westbrook, Tony Espinosa, Megan Ferguson, and Oscar Isaac.SYNOPSIS:A home invasion rattles a quiet family town.It’s all too easy to discuss the rather meat-headed prescience of George Clooney’s Suburbicon, a film unable to shift a lingering sense of falsity […]

Movie Review – Wonderstruck (2017)

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Wonderstruck, 2017.Directed by Todd Haynes. Starring Oakes Fegley, Millicent Simmonds, Jaden Michael, Julianne Moore, Tom Noonan, James Urbaniak, Morgan Turner, Cory Michael Smith, and Michelle Williams.SYNOPSIS:The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same […]

Movie Review – Suburbicon (2017)

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Suburbicon, 2017.Directed by George Clooney. Starring Matt Damon, Julianne Moore, Noah Jupe, Glenn Fleshler, Gary Basaraba, Karimah Westbrook, Tony Espinosa, Megan Ferguson, and Oscar Isaac.SYNOPSIS:A home invasion rattles a quiet family town.At this point, we must accept that George Clooney is a much better actor than director, or at the very least is going through […]

Amazon scraps David O. Russell’s drama series as it severs ties with The Weinstein Company

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As part of the fallout from the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse allegations, Amazon has announced that it has scrapped plans for an untitled drama series from David O. Russell, which it was co-producing with The Weinstein Company. The project would have saw Robert De Niro and Julianne Moore starring, and apparently already had around $40 […]

61st BFI London Film Festival Review – Wonderstruck (2017)

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Wonderstruck, 2017.Directed by Todd Haynes. Starring Julianne Moore, Oakes Fegley, Millicent Simmonds, Michelle Williams, and Jaden Michael.SYNOPSIS:Two parallel stories.  In the 1970s, young Ben is bereft after the death of his mother.  A discovery among her possessions leads him to go in search of his father in New York. Back in the 1920s, Rose is […]