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Exclusive Interview – Free Guy’s VFX supervisor on the most challenging scene, creating a jacked CG Ryan Reynolds and more

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Justin Cook chats with visual effects supervisor Swen Gillberg about his work on Free Guy, which is now available on Digital, 4k, Blu-ray, and DVD. The following conversation contains spoilers about the film… This summer, Free Guy became the little movie that could, as it debunked the prevailing narrative that nothing original was breaking out […]

Movie Review – Free Guy (2021)

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Free Guy, 2021. Directed by Shawn Levy. Starring Ryan Reynolds, Jodie Comer, Lil Rel Howery, Joe Keery, Taika Waititi, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Camille Kostek, Kimberly Howe, Matty Cardarople, Ninja, Alex Trebek, Aaron W Reed, JackSepticeye, Pokimane, LazarBeam, David Morwick, and DanTDM. SYNOPSIS: A bank teller discovers that he’s actually an NPC inside a brutal, open-world video […]

Gal Gadot takes on Dwayne Johnson and Ryan Reynolds in Red Notice clip

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During Netflix’s virtual global fan event TUDUM, the streamer has released a new clip from the upcoming action comedy crime Red Notice which sees Gal Gadot’s art thief taking down FBI agent John Hartley (Dwayne Johnson) and thief Nolan Booth (Ryan Reynolds) when they attempt an arrest; watch it here… SEE ALSO: Watch the trailer […]

Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot star in trailer for Red Notice

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Netflix has debuted the first trailer and new images from the action comedy Red Notice. Directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber, the film stars Dwayne Johnson as an FBI Agent who is forced to team-up with the world’s greatest art thief (Ryan Reynolds), in order to catch the world’s most wanted art thief (Gal Gadot); check […]

Movie Review – Deadpool (2016)

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Deadpool, 2016. Directed by Tim Miller. Starring Ryan Reynolds, Ed Skrein, Morena Baccarin, T.J. Miller, Stefan Kapicic, Brianna Hildebrand, Gina Carano, Leslie Uggams and Karan Soni. SYNOPSIS: Ex-mercenary Wade Wilson subjects himself to secret experimentation, hoping it will cure his cancer. Instead, it turns him into a wise-cracking, fourth-wall-breaking anti-superhero. Apart from the odd foray […]

Green Lantern director Martin Campbell admits he shouldn’t have tackled a superhero movie

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Not everyone is built to helm a superhero film. From the fan reaction to respecting the source material, tackling a film from Marvel or DC is no easy task, and not many filmmakers understand this quite like Martin Campbell. Campbell directed Green Lantern back in 2011 and the film was a commercial and critical bomb. […]

Video Review – Free Guy can’t rise above being just another typical Ryan Reynolds comedy

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EJ Moreno with a video review of Ryan Reynolds’ new film Free Guy… Ryan Reynolds is back, and this time he’s looking to pander to the gamers. Free Guy is a video game-infused film where Reynolds stars as Guy, an NPC who decided to move from the background to the hero of this story. Critic […]

Ryan Reynolds says there’s a 70% chance that Deadpool 3 starts filming next year

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With Marvel fans eagerly anticipating the arrival of Deadpool in the Marvel Cinematic Universe following Disney’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox, Ryan Reynolds has provided a positive update on the third instalment in the series. In an interview with Collider to promote Free Guy, Reynolds noted that the chances of Deadpool 3 starting production at Marvel […]

New clips and promos for Free Guy starring Ryan Reynolds

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With its release a little over a week away, 20th Century Studios has revealed four promos and two new clips from Shawn Levy’s upcoming action comedy Free Guy starring Ryan Reynolds, and you can watch them all below… SEE ALSO: Ryan Reynolds, Jodie Comer and Taika Waititi feature on Free Guy character posters In Twentieth-Century […]