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Johansson, Hanks, Schreiber and Schwartzman feature in clips for Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City

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Hoping to make an impact when it receives its world premiere in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, Focus Features has dropped a series of clips for Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City, an off-kilter comedy with the requisite large ensemble that is centred on a fictional American desert town in 1955, where a junior stargazer convention […]

Patricia Arquette stars in trailer for Apple TV+’s High Desert

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Apple TV+ has released a trailer for High Desert, the dark comedy series from director Jay Roach. The series stars Patricia Arquette as Peggy, a former addict who decides to make the life-changing decision to become a private investigator following the death of her mother, and also features Brad Garrett, Weruche Opia, Bernadette Peters, Rupert […]

Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City trailer is very Wes Anderson

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Focus Features has debuted a trailer and poster for writer-director Wes Anderson’s next film Asteroid City, a comedy centred on a fictional American desert town in 1955, where a junior stargazer convention is disrupted by… a visitor from outer space?  That doesn’t seem to matter, as the focus instead is on the usual Wes Anderson […]

The Grand Inquisitor Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi sixth scale figure unveiled by Hot Toys

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Last week we got a look at Hot Toys’ Reva (Third Sister) collectible, and now Sideshow has released promotional images for the sixth scale Grand Inquisitor Television Masterpiece series figure which is based on the likeness of Rupert Friend as the villainous leader of the Inquisitors in Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi. It is available to […]

Movie Review – Last Looks (2021)

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Last Looks, 2021. Directed by Tim Kirkby. Starring Charlie Hunnam, Mel Gibson, Morena Baccarin, Clancy Brown, Rupert Friend, Lucy Fry, Dominic Monaghan, Jacob Scipio, Paul Ben-Victor, Method Man, David Pasquesi, Sophie Fatu, Robin Givens, Xen Sams, CC Castillo, and Deacon Randle. SYNOPSIS: A disgraced ex-cop seeks solace by moving to the woods, but his quiet […]

Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon replaces Rupert Friend with Ed Skrein, three more added to cast

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The upcoming sci-fi epic Rebel Moon, from writer and director Zack Snyder, has replaced Rupert Friend with Ed Skrein (Deadpool) as the film’s villain, following Friend’s exit from the project due to scheduling conflicts. Per Deadline, the Netflix film has also added Cleopatra Coleman (Dopesick), Fra Fee (Hawkeye) and Rhian Rees (Nope) to its cast. The outlet is reporting that character details […]

Movie Review – Infinite (2021)

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Infinite, 2021. Directed by Antoine Fuqua. Starring Mark Wahlberg, Dylan O’Brien, Rupert Friend, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sophie Cookson, Toby Jones, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, Jason Mantzoukas, Tom Hughes, Liz Carr, Wallis Day, Kae Alexander, Joana Ribeiro, Lili Rich, and Raffiella Chapman. SYNOPSIS: A troubled young man haunted by memories of two past lives stumbles upon the centuries-old […]

UK trailer for action-comedy Last Looks starring Mel Gibson, Charlie Hunnam and Morena Baccarin

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Ahead of its UK release this June, Signature Entertainment has shared a trailer, poster and images for Last Looks, the upcoming action comedy starring Charlie Hunnam, Mel Gibson, and Morena Baccarin. Directed by Tim Kirkby (Action Point), the film sees Hunnam as an ex-LAPD police officer who comes out of retirement to investigate the murder […]

New Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi images feature Ben Kenobi and the Grand Inquisitor

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A month out from its hotly-anticipated premiere, Total Film has revealed three new images from Lucasfilm’s Disney+ series Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi offering a look at Ewan McGregor’s former Jedi Master on the planets of Tatooine and Daiyu, along with Star Wars Rebels villain The Grand Inquisitor, played by Rupert Friend in the character’s live […]