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Movie Review – Call Jane (2022)

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Call Jane, 2022. Directed by Phyllis Nagy. Starring Elizabeth Banks, Sigourney Weaver, Chris Messina, Kate Mara, Wunmi Mosaku, and Cory Michael Smith. SYNOPSIS: A married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time where she can’t get a legal abortion, and works with a group of suburban women to find help. Oscar-nominated Carol writer […]

Elizabeth Banks and Sigourney Weaver star in trailer for abortion rights drama Call Jane

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Roadside Attractions has released a trailer for director Phyllis Nagy’s 1960’s set drama Call Jane. Inspired by true events, the film stars Elizabeth Banks as Joy, a suburban housewife who is refused an abortion when her pregnancy leads to a life-threatening condition, desperate for a solution she joins forces with Virginia (Sigourney Weaver), an advocate […]

Sigourney Weaver and Kevin Kline rekindle their romance in trailer for The Good House

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Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions have released a trailer for Maya Forbes and Wally Wolodarsky’s comedy drama The Good House. Based on Ann Leary’s best-selling novel of the same name, the film reunites Dave and The Ice Storm co-stars Sigourney Weaver and Kevin Kline and sees Weaver playing Hildy, a New England realtor avoiding her problems, […]

Avatar: The Way of Water images spotlight Kate Winslet and Sigourney Weaver’s Na’vi characters

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With the long-gestating second chapter of James Cameron’s sci-fi saga less than half a year out, Empire Magazine has turned over the cover of its latest issue to Avatar: The Way of Water, showcasing two characters from the upcoming sequel in Kate Winslet’s fearless leader Ronal, along with Sigourney Weaver’s new character Kiri – the […]

Avatar: The Way of Water trailer takes us back to Pandora

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After debuting in cinemas this past week alongside Marvel Studios’ Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, the teaser trailer for the first of James Cameron’s long-gestating Avatar sequels has now officially made its way online, with 20th Century Studios offering a tantalising first glimpse at Avatar: The Way of Water. Check it out below, […]

Paul Feig calls out the omission of his Ghostbusters from Sony’s Ultimate Boxset

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It appears that Sony may have crossed their streams with Paul Feig when it comes to the release of their forthcoming Ghostbusters Ultimate Collection boxset, because the director of the divisive 2016 Ghostbusters reboot has taken to Twitter to politely enquire about why his entry into the franchise has been omitted. In his own inimitably […]

Movie Review – Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)

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Ghostbusters: Afterlife, 2021. Directed by Jason Reitman. Starring Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace, Paul Rudd, Carrie Coon, Sigourney Weaver, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts, Logan Kim, Celeste O’Connor, Oliver Cooper, Sydney Mae Diaz, Bokeem Woodbine, Marlon Kazadi, Tracy Letts, Paulina Jewel Alexis, Josh Gad, and J.K. Simmons. SYNOPSIS: When a single mom and […]

Paul Schrader lines up Joel Edgerton & Sigourney Weaver for crime thriller Master Gardener

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Ahead of the world premiere of his latest film The Card Counter at this week’s Venice Film Festival, Taxi Driver scribe Paul Schrader is already lining up his next crime-thriller, tapping up Joel Edgerton and Sigourney Weaver to star in Master Gardener. Deadline reports that Schrader will direct from his own original screenplay, which tells […]

Sigourney Weaver to lead Amazon’s The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart adaptation

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Deadline reports that Alien and Ghostbusters legend Sigourney Weaver is set to executive produce and star in The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, an adaptation from Amazon of Holly Ringland’s novel of the same name. The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart focuses on “a young girl, Alice Hart, whose violent childhood casts a dark shadow over her adult […]

Movie Review – A Monster Calls (2016)

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A Monster Calls, 2016. Directed by J.A. Bayona. Starring Lewis MacDougall, Felicity Jones, Sigourney Weaver, Toby Kebbell and Liam Neeson. SYNOPSIS: A young boy struggling to come to terms with his mother’s terminal illness is visited by a talking yew tree that tells him stories. With his first two films (The Orphanage and The Impossible) […]