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Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds team for A Christmas Carol musical reimagining

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Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds are set to team up for a musical reimagining of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol from Daddy’s Home team of director Sean Anders and writer John Morris.A Christmas Carol tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present […]

Ryan Reynolds reveals why he wanted to do Pokemon: Detective Pikachu

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Ryan Reynolds has revealed why he wanted to make a PG-rated Pokemon: Detective Pikachu despite recently being more commonly associated with R-rated films such as The Hitman’s Bodyguard and Deadpool.Actors tend to attach their names to movie for several different reasons. To work with a specific director, the quality of the script, if the film […]

Blu-ray Review – Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (2019)

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Pokémon: Detective Pikachu, 2019.Directed by Rob Letterman. Starring Ryan Reynolds, Justice Smith, Kathryn Newton, Bill Nighy, Ken Watanabe, Chris Geere, Suki Waterhouse, Josette Simon, Rita Ora, Karan Soni, Diplo, Omar Chaparro, and Rob Delaney.SYNOPSIS:In a world where people collect Pokémon to do battle, a boy comes across an intelligent talking Pikachu who seeks to be […]

Movie Review – Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)

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Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, 2019.Directed by David Leitch. Starring Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham, Idris Elba, Vanessa Kirby, Ryan Reynolds, Rob Delaney, Eiza González, Helen Mirren, Eddie Marsan, Eliana Sua, Cliff Curtis, Stephanie Vogt, David Mumeni, Axel Nu, Lampros Kalfuntzos, Lori Pelenise Tuisano, John Tui, Joshua Mauga, and Roman Reigns.SYNOPSIS:Lawman Luke Hobbs and […]

Video Review – Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw

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Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, 2019.Directed by David Leitch. Starring Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham, Idris Elba, Vanessa Kirby, Ryan Reynolds, Rob Delaney, Eiza González, Helen Mirren, Eddie Marsan and Roman Reigns.This week sees the release of the new Fast and Furious spin-off, Hobbs & Shaw. In the video below, Flickering Myth critic EJ […]

Ryan Reynolds teases Phase 5 MCU debut for Deadpool

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Although Disney’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox doesn’t seem to have impacted Marvel Studios’ plans for Phase Four of the MCU, Kevin Feige did tease the introduction of the Fantastic Four and the X-Men during the studio’s big panel at San Diego Comic-Con.When and how that will happen remains to be seen, but Deadpool star […]

Filming begins on Free Guy starring Ryan Reynolds, Taika Waititi, Jodie Comer and Joe Keery

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Disney has announced that filming is now underway on Free Guy, director Shaun Levy’s (Night at the Museum) adventure comedy starring Ryan Reynolds (Pokemon: Detective Pikachu).The film will see Reynolds playing a a lonely bank teller who discovers he is actually an NPC, a background character, in the open-world videogame Free City.Production on Free Guy […]

Movie Review – Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (2019)

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Pokémon: Detective Pikachu, 2019.Directed by Rob Letterman. Starring Ryan Reynolds, Justice Smith, Kathryn Newton, Bill Nighy, Ken Watanabe, Chris Geere, Suki Waterhouse, Josette Simon, Rita Ora, Karan Soni, Diplo, Omar Chaparro, and Rob Delaney.SYNOPSIS:In a world where people collect Pokémon to do battle, a boy comes across an intelligent talking Pikachu who seeks to be […]

Movie Review – Pokemon: Detective Pikachu (2019)

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Pokemon: Detective Pikachu, 2019.Directed by Rob Letterman. Starring Ryan Reynolds, Justice Smith, Kathryn Newton, Bill Nighy, Ken Watanabe, Chris Geere, and Suki Waterhouse.SYNOPSIS:In a world where people collect Pokémon to do battle, a boy comes across an intelligent talking Pikachu who seeks to be a detective.When a friend asked me to compare Detective Pikachu against […]