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Movie Review – Rebecca (2020)

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Rebecca, 2020. Directed by Ben Wheatley. Starring Lily James, Armie Hammer, Kristin Scott Thomas, Keeley Hawes, Jane Lapotaire, Lucy Russell, Bryony Miller, Sam Riley, Bill Paterson, Tom Goodman-Hill, Mark Lewis Jones, Jeff Rawle, John Hollingworth, Ben Crompton, and Ann Dowd. SYNOPSIS: A young newlywed arrives at her husband’s imposing family estate on a windswept English […]

First trailer for Ron Howard’s Hillbilly Elegy starring Amy Adams and Glenn Close

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Netflix has debuted the first trailer and a poster for Ron Howard’s upcoming drama Hillbilly Elegy. Based on J.D. Vance’s memoir of the same name, the film follows three generations of an Appalachian family through their unique struggles and features a cast that includes Amy Adams, Glenn Close, Gabriel Basso, Haley Bennett, and Owen Asztalos; […]

Are The Haunting of Bly Manor team about to tackle The Woman in Black for Netflix?

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With viewers currently devouring the ‘come for the scares, stay for the heart’ brilliance of Netflix’s The Haunting of Bly Manor, reports have emerged that the team behind that and last year’s The Haunting of Hill House are set to take on Susan Hill’s 1983 novel The Woman in Black as their next exercise in […]

Exclusive Interview – Oswin Benjamin discusses The Forty-Year-Old-Version

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Oswin Benjamin has been in the music industry over ten years and was born in Brooklyn but raised upstate in Newsburg, New York. He has appeared and collaborated with musicians like Robert Glasper, Royce da 5’9, Lupe Fiasco, Chris Rivers and Styles P of The Lox. His role as D in The Forty-Year-Old-Version represents Oswin’s […]

Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous gets a season 2 renewal and trailer

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Having dropped its first season last month, Netflix has announced today during New York Comic Con that it has renewed Universal and DreamWorks’ animated adventure series Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous for a second season, and we’ve already got a teaser trailer! Check it out here… SEE ALSO: Steven Spielberg advised Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous not to […]

Movie Review – The Forty-Year-Old Version (2020)

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The Forty-Year-Old Version, 2020. Written and Directed by Radha Blank Starring Radha Blank, Peter Kim, Oswin Benjamin, Imani Lewis, Reed Birney and Walker White. SYNOPSIS: A New York playwright (Radha Blank) is in search of an elusive success before she hits forty. Teaching theatre classes during the day and binge watching television shows at night, […]

Netflix Review – The Haunting of Bly Manor

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Shaun Munro reviews The Haunting of Bly Manor… Filmmaker Mike Flanagan (Doctor Sleep) set a perilously high bar for himself with 2018’s masterful Netflix Original series The Haunting of Hill House, which used its 10 episodes to tell a daring, emotionally rich reimagining of Shirley Jackson’s 1959 novel of the same name. Flanagan returns now […]

Movie Review – Hubie Halloween (2020)

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Hubie Halloween, 2020. Directed by Steven Brill Starring Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Julie Bowen, Ray Liotta, Steve Buscemi, Rob Schneider, Maya Rudolph, Tim Meadows, Michael Chiklis, June Squibb, George Wallace, Keenan Thompson, Shaquille O’Neill, Noah Schnapp, and Paris Berelc SYNOPSIS: For years Hubie Dubois (Adam Sandler) has kept the streets of Salem safe from trouble, […]

First teaser trailer for Netflix and David Fincher’s Mank

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David Fincher is back with a brand new film Mank, which dives into a fairly iconic name in the world of film. Fincher looks to tackle the story of screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz during one of the most infamous times in his life, the race to finish the script for Citizen Kane. In this first […]