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Movie Review – Old Henry (2021)

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Old Henry, 2021. Written and Directed by Potsy Ponciroli. Starring Tim Blake Nelson, Scott Haze, Gavin Lewis, Stephen Dorff, Trace Adkins, Richard Speight Jr., Max Arciniega, and Brad Carter. SYNOPSIS: An action western about a farmer who takes in an injured man with a satchel of cash. When a posse comes for the money, he […]

Netflix’s live-action/animated hybrid series Lost Ollie gets a trailer

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Ahead of its arrival on Netflix later this month, the streamer has released a trailer, poster and images for the live-action/animated series Lost Ollie. Inspired by William Joyce’s Ollie’s Odyssey, the series follows lost soft toy Ollie as he embarks on an epic journey to reunite with his best friend Billy, and the young boy’s […]

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio comes to life with trailer for stop-motion animated adaptation

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It’s like the summer of 1998 all over again, if world-destroying astronomical objects were wooden toy boys who longed to be real… in September, Robert Zemeckis and Tom Hanks team up to bring the live-action Pinocchio to Disney+, before Netflix and Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro deliver their own take on Carlo Collodi’s classic tale […]

Guillermo del Toro shares a set of beautiful images from his stop-motion Pinocchio

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Disney may have attempted to wow with the recent trailer for their own take on Pinocchio, but it only needed a series of sumptuous images from Guillermo del Toro’s stop-motion interpretation of the classic story to see where the real magic could be found. The Oscar-winning The Shape of Water director is finally getting the […]

Movie Review – Ghosts of the Ozarks (2022)

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Ghosts of the Ozarks, 2022. Written and Directed by Matt Glass and Jordan Wayne Long. Starring Thomas Hobson, Tara Perry, Phil Morris, Angela Bettis, David Arquette, Tim Blake Nelson, Joseph Ruud, David Aaron Baker, Neva Howell, Brandon Gibson, Scott Dean, Graham Gordy, Skylar Olivia Flanagan, and Taylor Alden. SYNOPSIS: In post-Civil War Arkansas, a young […]

Southern Gothic ghost story Ghosts of the Ozarks gets a UK trailer, poster and images

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Ahead of its UK release later this month, Signature Entertainment has shared a trailer, poster and images for the Southern Gothic ghost story Ghosts of the Ozarks. Set in 1866 Arkansas, the film follows a young doctor as he is summoned to a utopian paradise is the Ozarks, where he discovers that a menacing supernatural […]

Movie Review – Nightmare Alley (2021)

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Nightmare Alley, 2021. Directed by Guillermo del Toro. Starring Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe, Richard Jenkins, Rooney Mara, Ron Perlman, David Strathairn, Holt McCallany, Mark Povinelli, Jim Beaver, Romina Power, Paul Anderson, Clifton Collins Jr., David Hewlett, Lara Jean Chorostecki, Drew Nelson, Troy James, Dian Bachar, Linden Porco, and Tim Blake Nelson. […]

Movie Review – Nightmare Alley (2021)

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Nightmare Alley, 2021. Directed by Guillermo del Toro. Starring Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe, Richard Jenkins, Rooney Mara, Ron Perlman, David Strathairn, Holt McCallany, Mark Povinelli, Jim Beaver, Romina Power, Paul Anderson, Clifton Collins Jr., David Hewlett, Lara Jean Chorostecki, Drew Nelson, Troy James, Dian Bachar, Linden Porco, and Tim Blake Nelson. […]

Meet Ewan McGregor’s Cricket in the first teaser for Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

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In what feels like the perfect marriage of director and material, Guillermo del Toro’s long-gestating take on the classic tale of Pinocchio is finally coming to life thanks to your Netflix subscription dollars. Officially titled Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, the Academy Award winning director’s unique take features an all-star voice cast with Ewan McGregor as […]

Video Review – Guillermo del Toro strikes again with twisted Nightmare Alley

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EJ Moreno with a video review of Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley… Constantly firing all cylinders, Guillermo del Toro hits a new level with Nightmare Alley. Gone is the filmmaker’s supernatural tinge, and in its place is something even scarier…the darkness of the human soul. Nightmare Alley is unlike anything from del Toro, and it […]