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Movie Review – The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)

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The Stanford Prison Experiment, 2015. Directed by Kyle Patrick Alvarez. Starring Billy Crudup, Ezra Miller, Michael Angarano, Tye Sheridan, Thomas Mann, and Olivia Thirlby. SYNOPSIS: Twenty-four male students out of seventy-five were selected to take on randomly assigned roles of prisoners and guards in a mock prison situated in the basement of the Stanford psychology […]

Movie Review – The Tender Bar (2021)

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The Tender Bar, 2021. Directed by George Clooney. Starring Ben Affleck, Tye Sheridan, Lily Rabe, Christopher Lloyd, Daniel Ranieri, Max Martini, Sondra James, Michael Braun, Matthew Delamater, Max Casella, Rhenzy Feliz, Ivan Leung, and Briana Middleton. SYNOPSIS: A boy growing up on Long Island seeks out father figures among the patrons at his uncle’s bar. […]

First trailer for George Clooney’s The Tender Bar starring Ben Affleck

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The trailer for George Clooney’s drama The Tender Bar starring Ben Affleck has been released. Directed by Clooney, the film sees Affleck as the bar tender who provides his nephew, played by Tye Sheridan (Ready Player One), with several pieces of advice for life. Watch the trailer below… TENDER BAR[/caption] It tells the story of J.R., a […]

UK trailer for sci-fi thriller Voyagers starring Tye Sheridan, Lily-Rose Depp and Colin Farrell

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Sky has announced that it is bringing director Neil Burger’s sci-fi thriller Voyagers to the UK this month with an exclusive Sky Cinema and NOWTV release; check out the UK artwork and trailer for the film below… Set in the near future, the film chronicles the odyssey of 30 young men and women who are […]

Oscar Isaac is The Card Counter in trailer for Paul Schrader’s new film

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Universal has released a UK trailer for the revenge thriller The Card Counter. Directed by Paul Schrader (First Reformed), the film stars Oscar Isaac as an ex-interrogator turned gambler who sees a chance at redemption from his past actions when he is approached by a young man seeking revenge against a military colonel. Watch the […]

Trailer for sci-fi thriller Voyagers starring Tye Sheridan, Lily-Rose Depp and Colin Farrell

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Lionsgate has released a poster and trailer for the upcoming sci-fi thriller Voyagers. Written and directed by Neil Burger, the film follows a group of young men and women who have been bred for intelligence and obedience as they defy their training when they discover some disturbing secrets about their mission to colonize another planet. […]

Tom Hardy to lead ensemble cast of Vietnam War movie The Things They Carried

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Deadline is reporting that Tom Hardy is set to headline the impressive ensemble cast of The Things They Carried, a Vietnam War movie from director Rupert Sanders (Ghost in the Shell). Alongside Hardy, the film is set to feature Tye Sheridan (Ready Player One), Stephan James (If Beale Street Could Talk), Bill Skarsgard (It), Pete […]

Movie Review – Ready Player One (2018)

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Ready Player One, 2018. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Starring Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Mark Rylance, Simon Pegg, T.J. Miller, Lena Waithe, Hannah John-Kamen, Ralph Ineson, Mckenna Grace, Win Morisaki, Susan Lynch, and Philip Zhao. SYNOPSIS: When the creator of a virtual reality world called the OASIS dies, he releases a video in which he […]

Quibi Review – Wireless

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Martin Carr reviews Quibi’s Wireless… For anyone who wants context on Wireless take a moment to Google search director Zach Wechter, then watch his short film Pocket. This Quibi production is an extension of those film making techniques stretched into eight minute segments. Aided by executive producer Steven Soderbergh, himself no stranger to mobile film […]