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Tom Hardy to play war photographer Don McCullin

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Tom Hardy has signed on to play acclaimed war photographer Don McCullin in an upcoming adaptation of McCullin’s memoir Unreasonable Behaviour, Entertainment Weekly has revealed. London-born photojournalist McCullin was lead photographer for The Sunday Times between 1969 and 1984, during which he covered the likes of Beatlemania, the construction of the Berlin Wall, the Vietnam […]

Rumour: Tom Hardy to cameo in Star Wars: Episode VIII

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Minor spoilers for Star Wars: Episode VIII to follow… It looks like Mad Max: Fury Road star Tom Hardy could be heading to a galaxy far, far away, with the ever-reliable Making Star Wars reporting that the actor is set to make a cameo in Star Wars: Episode VIII, which is currently in production under director […]

Movie Review – The Revenant (2016)

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The Revenant, 2016. Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Will Poulter, Domhnall Gleeson, Paul Anderson, Lukas Haas, Brendan Fletcher, Forrest Goodluck, and Grace Dove. SYNOPSIS: In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling. You […]

Second Opinion – The Revenant (2016)

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The Revenant, 2015. Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Will Poulter, Domhnall Gleeson and Forest Goodluck. SYNOPSIS: A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820’s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team. To say that The […]

Movie Review – The Revenant (2015)

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The Revenant, 2015. Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Will Poulter and Domhnall Gleeson. SYNOPSIS: A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820’s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team. Cinema can be a beguiling, beautiful […]

Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk movie confirmed, Tom Hardy, Kenneth Branagh and Mark Rylance to star

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Yesterday rumours emerged suggesting that Christopher Nolan’s next film would be a World War II epic about the 1940 Dunkirk evacuation, and now Warner Bros. has officially confirmed the reports, as well as revealing some casting details. As per The Hollywood Reporter, the film – which is based on an original screenplay from Nolan – will […]

Movie Review – The Revenant (2015)

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The Revenant, 2015. Directed by Alejandro G. Inarritu. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Will Poulter, Domhnall Gleeson, Paul Anderson, Lukas Haas, Brendan Fletcher, Forrest Goodluck, and Grace Dove. SYNOPSIS: In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling. Production […]

DVD Review – Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

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Mad Max: Fury Road, 2015. Directed by George Miller. Starring Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Rosie Huntington-Whitely, Nathan Jones, Megan Gale, Zoe Kravitz, Riley Keough, Josh Helman, Jennifer Hagan, Abbey Lee Kershaw and Courtney Easton. SYNOPSIS: In a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, two rebels just might be able to […]

The Week in Disappointment – Ghostbusters, Wolverine, Matt Damon as Daredevil, Prometheus 2, Hayden Christensen returning to Star Wars and more

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Every week the entertainment world provides us with the unfortunate, the inexcusable, and the questionable. Here are this week’s disappointments. Annie Potts and Sigourney Weaver to appear in Ghostbusters reboot. None of this is surprising or even worthy of mention. When they figure out how to get Harold Ramis to appear in the film, wake […]