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Movie Review – Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016)

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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, 2016. Directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa. Starring Tina Fey, Margot Robbie, Martin Freeman, Billy Bob Thornton, Alfred Molina, Christopher Abbott and Josh Charles. SYNOPSIS: Bored, desk-bound TV journalist Kim Baker (Tina Fey) throws caution to the wind and takes up a three month assignment to cover the war in Afghanistan.  Three […]

October Horrors 2019 Day 30 – Ghost Stories (2017)

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Ghost Stories, 2017. Directed by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman. Starring Andy Nyman, Martin Freeman, Alex Lawther and Paul Whitehouse. SYNOPSIS: Professor Philip Goodman, an investigator specialising in debunking fraudulent physics is tasked with solving three mysterious and seemingly supernatural events. Among the horror genre, we have many different sub-genres lurking within it, and while […]

Martin Freeman returning for Marvel’s Black Panther 2

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Although it was absent from Marvel’s Phase Four slate reveal at the San Diego Comic-Con, we do know that Black Panther director Ryan Coogler is already hard at work developing a sequel to last year’s hugely successful superhero movie, and now Martin Freeman has revealed that his character Everett Ross looks to be heading back […]

Martin Freeman and Morena Baccarin star in trailer for Ode to Joy

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Ahead of its release next month, a poster and trailer have arrived online for IFC Films’ upcoming comedy Ode to Joy which stars Martin Freeman as Charlie, a man who has to decide whether or not to suppress his feelings when he falls for Francesca (Morena Baccarin), due to a rare disorder which causes him […]

Carey Mulligan, Andy Serkis, Daniel Kaluuya and Martin Freeman set “radical retelling” of A Christmas Carol

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Screen Daily is reporting that Carey Mulligan (Wildlife) and Black Panther stars Andy Serkis, Daniel Kaluuya and Martin Freeman have signed on to the voice cast of an animated “radical retelling” of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol. BAFTA-nominated siblings Jacqui and David Morris (McCullin, Nureyev) are directing the feature from a script by […]

Martin Freeman to lead parental comedy series Breeders for FX

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FX has announced that it has given a ten-episode series order to Breeders, a parental comedy series which will star Martin Freeman (Sherlock, Black Panther) and Daisy Haggard (Episodes, I Give It a Year). Breeders has been created by Freeman, Simon Blackwell (The Thick of It, Veep) and Chris Addison (The Thick of It, In […]

Blu-ray Review – Black Panther (2018)

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Black Panther, 2018. Directed by Ryan Coogler. Starring Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, Sterling K. Brown, Florence Kasumba, John Kani, and Andy Serkis. SYNOPSIS: The Marvel Cinematic Universe keeps chugging along with Black Panther, which has arrived on Blu-ray […]

T’Challa and Everett Ross in new deleted scene from Marvel’s Black Panther

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This past week we’ve brought you two deleted scenes from the home entertainment release of Black Panther [watch them here and here], and now IGN has revealed a third which sees T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman) meeting with Everett Ross (Martin Freeman) before addressing the United Nations; take a look below… After the events of Captain America: […]

Martin Freeman joins Diane Kruger in The Operative

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Sherlock and Black Panther star Martin Freeman has signed on to star alongside Diane Kruger in director Yuval Adler’s spy thriller The Operative, Deadline has revealed. Based on former Israeli intelligence officer Yiftach Reicher Atir’s bestselling novel, the film will see Kruger as Rachel, “”a rogue spy from Israel’s feared national intelligence force Mossad, who […]