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James Gunn and Peter Safran’s DC Studios slate promises Gods and Monsters

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The DC Extended Universe is dead (sort of)! Long live the new DC Universe (and standalone DC Elseworlds projects)!Yes, some three months on from the surprise news that Guardians of the Galaxy and The Suicide Squad director James Gunn would be teaming with Aquaman producer Peter Safran to head up the newly-revamped DC Studios, the […]

Matt Reeves and James Gunn set the record straight over The Batman becoming mainline DC

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It’s been a hectic week for the new creative head of DC Studios, James Gunn. All week, there’s been reports about the soon-to-be revamped DC movies, and Gunn has spent most of the time addressing rumors, as well as confirming a Superman reboot with Henry Cavill’s time as the Man of Steel now officially over. Before […]

4K Ultra HD Review – The Batman (2022)

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The Batman, 2022.Directed by Matt Reeves. Starring Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Paul Dano, Jeffrey Wright, John Turturro, Peter Sarsgaard, Andy Serkis, and Colin Farrell.SYNOPSIS:Matt Reeves’ grim-and-gritty The Batman arrives on 4K with a presentation as stellar as you’d expect, along with a big batch of bonus features that do an excellent job of telling the […]

Bong Joon-Ho introduces us to Robert Pattinson’s Mickey 17 in teaser for new sci-fi

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Warner Bros. has delivered us an early Christmas present by dropping the teaser for Academy Award-winning Korean director Bong Joon-Ho’s next film Mickey 17, which features Robert Pattinson as the lead and will debut in cinemas on March 29, 2024.Based on the novel written by Edward Ashton, Mickey 17 follows an individual known as an “expendable,” […]

Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and the Art of Career Transformation

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Tom Jolliffe on films stars who re-invent themselves after career decline…Hollywood is unforgiving. You find a degree of success and get to the top. Maybe a string of flops send you crashing back to anonymity. You may still work solidly. Mickey Rourke for example, perceived to have disappeared around the beginning of the 90’s before […]

A Big Year for Three Modern Horror Masters

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Tom Jolliffe takes a look ahead to The Nightingale, Midsommar and The Lighthouse…There’s been some great horror films in the last five years. Three in particular for me really harked back to a classic era sensibility, owing a lot to the best era in creepy atmospheric horror. These would evoke films (among others…) like Ingmar […]

Should Robert Pattinson have held out for James Bond instead of Batman?

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After Danny Boyle’s recent backing of Robert Pattinson for Bond, Tom Jolliffe considers whether Pattinson has chosen the right franchise to come on board…After a little conjecture following the mutual (maybe mutual) agreement for Ben Affleck to hang up his cape, the Bruce Wayne/Batman role has now went to Robert Pattinson. The internet, naturally with […]

When Cabin Fever Strikes: The Lighthouse and The Shining Double Bill

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Tom Jolliffe delves into the delights of cabin fever and double bills The Lighthouse and The Shining…I do love a double bill. Sometimes it’s pre-planned, like pre-meditated eating of the chocolate in the cupboard. Sometimes it just happens to cross my mind when watching one film, that I can connect it to something else (whether […]