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Matthew McConaughey Thinks The Story Behind 'Free State of Jones' Ought To Be Heard
After winning his Oscar two years ago, Matthew McConaughey has enjoyed picking unexpected projects like his new movie, Free State of Jones. This is the true story of Newt Knight, a southerner who led a...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 24th June 2016
Elle Fanning Loved The Freedom On The Set Of Nicolas Winding Refn's The Neon Demon
In his new horror movie The Neon Demon, Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive) takes on the vicious side of the fashion industry, telling the story of an aspiring teen model. Played by Elle Fanning, she becomes...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 24th June 2016
Liam Hemsworth Bonded With His Idol Jeff Goldblum In Independence Day 2
Liam Hemsworth was thrilled to be cast in the 20-years-later sequel Independence Day: Resurgence, since the 1996 original film was one of his childhood favourites. "I was 6 or 7 years old when I first...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 24th June 2016
Independence Day: Resurgence
Two decades is a long time to wait for a sequel, especially one starring much of the original cast. (The record may go to the 32 years between Return of the Jedi and The Force...
Movie Review posted on 23rd June 2016
Elvis & Nixon
This movie is based on a real meeting between Elvis Presley and Richard Nixon in the White House in December 1970. The only details about this collision of two icons come from a few eyewitness...
Movie Review posted on 23rd June 2016
The Secret Life of Pets
From the team behind Despicable Me and Minions, this high-energy adventure makes up for its rather simplistic story by filling the screen with lively characters, silly dialog and colourful animation. There's nothing terribly distinctive about...
Movie Review posted on 23rd June 2016
Helen Mirren Is Ready To Go Furiously Fast
Even the comedies she does have an element of class, like Trumbo and Calendar Girls. No wonder everyone was surprised to learn that she has been cast in the next Fast and Furious movie.But it's...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 17th June 2016
Kevin Hart Has A Bromance With The Rock In Central Intelligence
With a long list of buddy comedies behind him, Hart has an idea why some teams work and others don't. "I think it's a little bit of special Kev sauce," he laughs. "Nah, it's all...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 17th June 2016
Ellen Degeneres Found Inspiration In Finding Dory
Now writer-director Andrew Stanton is back, along with Ellen DeGeneres voicing the forgetful blue tang Dory. In her varied career, from stand-up comic to sitcom star to talk show queen, DeGeneres has found Dory to...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 17th June 2016
Gods of Egypt
With a massive scale and a digital cast of thousands, this ancient Egyptian romp tries to be both a new version of those 1950s Biblical toga epics and a generous dose of camp silliness. The...
Movie Review posted on 16th June 2016
The Conjuring 2
Continuing on from the 2013 hit, this sequel blends fact and fiction to follow real-life ghostbusters Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) from the 1976 Amityville haunting to an encounter with the...
Movie Review posted on 16th June 2016
Ma Ma
From Spain, this drama grapples with some enormous issues without getting too heavy about them. It's emotionally wrenching without ever feeling sentimental, because inventive filmmaker Julio Medem (Sex & Lucia) keeps the tone funny and...
Movie Review posted on 16th June 2016
Toby Kebbell Hones His Performance-Capture Skills In Warcraft
But while Fimmel is there on screen, Kebbell is digitally augmented as the 900-pound orc chieftan Durotan. After making his name as an actor in acclaimed films like Control and RocknRolla, Kebbell discovered that he...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 10th June 2016
Lizzy Caplan Takes A Stand For Women In Now You See Me 2
There were a lot of reasons why she was drawn to the role alongside Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco and Daniel Radcliffe, plus Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine. "I admired all of...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 10th June 2016
What's The Real Story Behind The Conjuring 2?
In the second film, it's 1977 and the Warrens travel to England to look into The Enfield Case, as single mother Peggy Hodgson (Frances O'Connor) is told by her daughter Janet (Madison Wolfe) that her...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 10th June 2016
When Marnie Was There
Japan's Studio Gibli has been responsible for some of the finest animated movies in recent decades, from 2003's Oscar-winning Spirited Away to last year's beautiful The Tale of the Princess Kaguya. Now adapted by Disney...
Movie Review posted on 9th June 2016
The Boss
Melissa McCarthy brings another of her improvisational alter-egos to the big screen with this energetic comedy. The first cause for pause comes because this is a reteaming with her filmmaker husband Ben Falcone, with whom...
Movie Review posted on 9th June 2016
The Stanford Prison Experiment
Based on real events, this sharply well-made film shifts from a rather light-hearted comedy into a horrific thriller. And it feels unnervingly natural as it does so. Where this goes is a bit relentless in...
Movie Review posted on 9th June 2016
Emilia Clarke Loved Smiling For Change In Me Before You
She admits that this character is much more like her than the Mother of Dragons, and not just because she lives in London. She first read Jojo Moyes bestselling novel Me Before You while she...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 3rd June 2016
Duncan Jones Wants Audiences To Give Warcraft A Chance
Aside from rare hits like Wreck-It Ralph and long-running series like Resident Evil, the list of bombs is a long one, stretching from Super Mario Bros. to Final Fantasy, Prince of Persia and Pixels.So it...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 3rd June 2016
Stephen Amell Was Determined To Have Fun With Ninja Turtles 2
Amell says that the film is in many ways Casey's origin story, a police officer whose clean-cut life changes when he meets the sewer-dwelling heroes. Amell had never read the comic books. "I'm a fan...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 3rd June 2016
The Nice Guys
Writer-director Shane Black returns to the comedy-noir vibe of his 2005 hit Kiss Kiss Bang Bang with this riotously funny thriller set in late-1970s Los Angeles. It's an entertaining mix of hilarious action mayhem, slapstick...
Movie Review posted on 2nd June 2016
Warcraft
Based on the iconic strategy game, this fantasy battle epic will appeal mainly to either the gamers themselves or audiences that love wildly detailed fantasy worlds. Everyone else will probably feel a bit lost when...
Movie Review posted on 2nd June 2016
Me Before You
With a story that links together every cliche from the weepy chick-flick library, this movie uses its doomed romance premise to reduce every woman in the audience into floods of tears. Adapted by author Jojo...
Movie Review posted on 2nd June 2016
Johnny Depp Enjoyed The Madness Of Alice Through The Looking Glass
With the media busy conjecturing about the end of Johnny Depp's brief marriage to Amber Heard, the actor would clearly rather be talking about his latest movie, the sequel Alice Through the Looking Glass. "Doing...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 27th May 2016
Nicolas Cage Had His Career Highlight On The Set Of The Trust
He says he chose the film because of the energy and passion of the filmmakers, brothers Alex and Ben Brewer. "I wanted to try working with younger filmmakers who were cutting their teeth and trying...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 27th May 2016
Sophie Turner And Tye Sheridan Dove Into X-Men: Apocalypse
Jennifer Lawrence said the newcomers weren't given an easy start: "They really get punched and beaten like the rest of us." To which James McAvoy responds that "they gave as good as they got as...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 27th May 2016
Love & Friendship
Acclaimed filmmaker Whit Stillman reunites the stars of his 1998 drama The Last Days of Disco, Kate Beckinsale and Chloe Sevigny, for what might be the most entertaining big-screen Jane Austen adaptation ever. Based on...
Movie Review posted on 27th May 2016
Alice Through the Looking Glass
This much more light-hearted sequel reinvigorates the franchise after Disney's quirky but murky 2010 reboot of Lewis Carroll's classic, which sent the heroine into Underland (not Wonderland) for a dark adventure that spiralled into a...
Movie Review posted on 27th May 2016
Money Monster
A sleekly made thriller with a sparky sense of humour, this is also a rare action movie that has something important to say. Centred around the corruption in the political and banking systems, the film...
Movie Review posted on 27th May 2016
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