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Movie Review – Ron’s Gone Wrong (2021)

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Ron’s Gone Wrong, 2021. Directed by Sarah Smith and Jean-Philippe Vine. Featuring the voice talents of Zach Galifianakis, Jack Dylan Grazer, Olivia Colman, Ed Helms, Justice Smith, Rob Delaney, Kylie Cantrall, and Ricardo Hurtado. SYNOPSIS: The story of Barney, an awkward middle-schooler, and Ron, his new walking, talking, digitally connected device. Ron’s malfunctions set against […]

Timothée Chalamet’s Wonka begins production as Rowan Atkinson and Olivia Colman join the cast

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“Come with me and you’ll be, In a world of pure imagination” must have been the pitch to Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean), Olivia Colman (The Father), and Sally Hawkins (The Shape of Water) because they’ve joined the cast of Paul King’s Timothée Chalamet headlined Charlie and the Chocolate Factory prequel, which has begun shooting in […]

First trailer for The Electrical Life of Louis Wain starring Benedict Cumberbatch

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StudioCanal has released a poster and trailer for The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, the upcoming biographical drama from director Will Sharpe which tells the story of the extraordinary life of the eccentric British artist Louis Wain (Benedict Cumberbatch) from the late 1800’s through to the 1930s; watch it here… The extraordinary true story of […]

First look at Benedict Cumberbatch in The Electrical Life of Louis Wain

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Coinciding with its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival, Amazon has released a first-look clip from the biographical drama The Electrical Life of Louis Wain which stars Benedict Cumberbatch as the eccentric British artist alongside Claire Foy as his wife Emily Richardson; take a look here… The extraordinary true story of eccentric British artist […]

Colin Firth, Olivia Colman and Odessa Young celebrate Mothering Sunday in first trailer for Lionsgate drama

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There’s no shortage of talent on display in the first trailer for Lionsgate’s tale of forbidden love, Mothering Sunday. Starring Odessa Young (Shirley, The Stand), Olivia Colman (The Father, The Favourite), Josh O’Connor (God’s Own Country, The Crown), Sope Dirisu (His House, Gangs of London), and Colin Firth (The King’s Speech, Supernova), Mothering Sunday was adapted […]

CG-animated comedy Ron’s Gone Wrong gets a first trailer

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20th Century Studios has released a trailer for the CG-animated comedy adventure Ron’s Gone Wrong which tells the story of the budding friendship between a socially awkward middle-school boy and his faulty robot. Directed by Jean-Philippe Vine, Sarah Smith, and Octavio Rodriguez, Ron’s Gone Wrong is the first feature from the new UK-based Locksmith Animation and features […]

Movie Review – The Father (2020)

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The Father, 2020. Directed by Florian Zeller. Starring Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman, Rufus Sewell, Mark Gatiss and Olivia Williams. SYNOPSIS: Anthony (Anthony Hopkins) is living with his daughter Anne (Olivia Colman) and her husband Paul (Rufus Sewell). Their relationship is loving yet sporadically fractious, as the arrival of unfamiliar faces begins to unsettle this delicate […]

Movie Review – The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021)

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The Mitchells vs. the Machines, 2021. Directed by Michael Rianda. Starring Abbi Jacobson, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph, Michael Rianda, Olivia Colman, Eric André, Chrissy Teigen and John Legend. SYNOPSIS: A dysfunctional family find themselves as humanity’s last hope – the only people who manage to avoid captivity when a tech company inadvertently brings about a […]

Olivia Colman joins Marvel’s Secret Invasion series

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Marvel’s Secret Invasion has added an Academy Award-winning star as the cast of the Disney+ series continues to shape up with news from The Hollywood Reporter that will likely delight fans as Olivia Colman is in negotiations to join the show. Colman, fresh off her Oscar-nominated turn in The Father, will join the series in […]

Olivia Colman to star in Sam Mendes’ Empire of Light

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Sam Mendes has chosen his first film since 1917 snared 10 Oscar nominations and $314 million at the worldwide box-office, and it looks as though fellow Academy-Award botherer Olivia Colman is set to join him for Empire of Light. Deadline reports that the Skyfall director has teamed with Searchlight Pictures to bring to life a […]