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Peter Kay. He used to be funny around 15 years ago when he brought Phoenix Nights to Channel 4, along with That Peter Kay Thing, beforehand. However, Max and Paddy’s Road To Nowhere ran out …
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Blade Runner 2049 – a home-grown flop?
Blade Runner 2049 is set 30 years after the original Blade Runner, and comes 35 years in real terms after the original. Hollywood expected it to take $50m in the US, yet its three-day opening …
Continue readingThoroughbreds – Red Band Teaser 1 – Anya Taylor-Joy
Thoroughbreds centres around two upper-class teenage girls in suburban Connecticut, Lily (Anya Taylor-Joy – The New Mutants, Split) and Amanda (Olivia Cooke – The Limehouse Golem), who rekindle their unlikely friendship after years of growing …
Continue readingRoman J Israel Esq. – Trailer 1 – Denzel Washington
Roman J Israel Esq. marks something I haven’t seen in a long time – a Denzel Washington film I’m actually looking forward to. I usually find him a no-trick pony, despite the critical acclaim he …
Continue readingCrooked House – Trailer 1 – Glenn Close
Crooked House is based on the novel by Agatha Christie, in which private detective Charles Hayward (Max Irons) is invited to solve a gruesome crime where nobody is above suspicion, including Sophia (Stefanie Martini), his …
Continue readingNewness – Trailer 1 – Nicholas Hoult
Newness centres around dippy couple Martin (Nicholas Hoult) and Gabi (Laia Costa), who meet via a Tinder clone. The billing states that in contemporary Los Angeles, two millennials navigating a social media-driven hookup culture begin …
Continue readingWonder Wheel – Trailer 1 – Kate Winslet
Wonder Wheel is a new movie from writer/director Woody Allen, and also for Amazon, who made the superb series last year, Crisis In Six Scenes. The simply premise to this new movie is that, on …
Continue readingFather Figures – Trailer 1 – Owen Wilson
Father Figures looks like one of those dire US R-rated (or 15-cert over here) ‘comedies’, which seems as lazy a premise as Rough Night had. Upon learning that their mother, Helen (Glenn Close) has been …
Continue readingDarkest Hour – Trailer 2 – Gary Oldman
Darkest Hour follows Churchill and Dunkirk, making me wonder if, like with Marvel and DC, someone’s trying to start their own Winston Churchill movie franchise… Imagine it: First, there was the Marvel Cinematic Universe, then …
Continue readingActs of Vengeance – Trailer 1 – Antonio Banderas
Acts of Vengeance is a rather mad-looking actioner with Antonio Banderas as Frank Valera, a fast-talking lawyer who transforms his body and takes a vow of silence, not to be broken until he finds out …
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