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Netflix casts its Matilda and Miss Trunchbull

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Having cast Captain Marvel and No Time To Die’s Lashana Lynch as Miss Honey earlier this month, Netflix has now found its Matilda and Miss Trunchbull for the upcoming feature adaptation of the musical stage version of Roald Dahl’s Matilda. Newcomer Alisha Weir is set to take on the title role as Matilda, a young […]

Movie Review – Outside the Wire (2021)

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Outside the Wire, 2020. Directed by Mikael Håfström. Starring Anthony Mackie, Damson Idris, Emily Beecham, Michael Kelly, and Pilou Asbæk. SYNOPSIS: In the near future, a drone pilot sent into a war zone finds himself paired with a top-secret android officer on a mission to stop a nuclear attack. Netflix has made it abundantly clear they’re […]

Lashana Lynch joins Netflix’s Matilda as Miss Honey

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Captain Marvel and No Time To Die star Lashana Lynch has been cast as Miss Honey in Netflix’s upcoming feature film version of the Roald Dahl stage adaptation Matilda the Musical. The movie reunites the stage musical’s director Matthew Warchus and Tony Award-winning writer Dennis Kelly. The role of Matilda is yet to be cast. […]

Rosamund Pike and Peter Dinklage face off in trailer for comedy thriller I Care A Lot

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Rosamund Pike is a queen of thrillers, and her latest effort gives the genre a more comedic spin. In I Care A Lot, Pike plays crooked legal guardian who drains the savings from the elderly. She meets her match when she comes across a woman with connections to a hot-headed gangster. The first trailer for […]

Movie Review – Outside the Wire (2021)

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Outside the Wire, 2021. Directed by Mikael Håfström. Starring Anthony Mackie, Pilou Asbæk, Emily Beecham, Michael Kelly, Damson Idris, Kristina Tonteri-Young, Bobby Lockwood, Enzo Cilenti, Velibor Topic, and Henry Garrett. SYNOPSIS: In the near future, a drone pilot sent into a war zone finds himself paired with a top-secret android officer on a mission to […]

Netflix releases trailer for To All the Boys: Always and Forever

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The first trailer has arrived online for Netflix’s To All the Boys: Always and Forever, the third and final instalment in the teen romantic drama series starring Lana Condor and Noah Centineo, which lands on the streaming service just in time for Valentine’s Day; watch it here… As Lara Jean Covey prepares for the end […]

Get a sneak peek at Netflix’s star-studded 2021 movie slate

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As we enter 2021, Netflix finds itself facing some pretty stiff competition on the streaming front, with rivals such as Disney+ and HBO Max recently announcing star-studded, blockbuster slates across both film and television. As such, Netflix has now fired back with a sneak peek preview of its original feature film offerings for 2021, which […]

First trailer for Penguin Bloom starring Naomi Watts, Andrew Lincoln and Jacki Weaver

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Netflix has released the first trailer, poster and images for the upcoming adaptation of Bradley Trevor Greive’s novel Penguin Bloom. The drama follows a family that take in and nurse back to health a wounded baby magpie that makes a profound difference on their lives and features a cast that includes Naomi Watts, Andrew Lincoln […]