After the mixed response to Warcraft last summer, which was less-than-well-received by critics and US audiences (just $47million grossed there) but had some success overseas ($386million), director Duncan Jones wasted no time in returning behind…
After the mixed response to Warcraft last summer, which was less-than-well-received by critics and US audiences (just $47million grossed there) but had some success overseas ($386million), director Duncan Jones wasted no time in returning behind the camera and this year sees the long-awaited release of Mute. Snapped up by Netflix, they have given us our first taste of what’s in store by released some new images from the film (via ThePlaylist).
Currently still filming, the film is…
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It was recently announced that Chris Evans would be replaced by Justin Theroux in Tate Taylor’s The Girl On The Train. And now there’s news of more shuffling in the pack as new Joker Jared Leto is also dropping out due to a timetable clash….
It was recently announced that Chris Evans would be replaced by Justin Theroux in Tate Taylor’s The Girl On The Train. And now there’s news of more shuffling in the pack as new Joker Jared Leto is also dropping out due to a timetable clash. Still, a great replacement has been confirmed with star of The Hobbit, Luke Evans stepping onboard.
The story follows a recently divorced woman called Rachel (Emily Blunt) struggling with her life and sinking into alcoholism to try to cope. She spies…
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Tate Taylor takes on the unenviable task of adapting a bestselling novel, by bringing Paula Hawkins immensely popular The Girl on the Train to the silver screen – and he’s done so in an accomplished, if somewhat underwhelming fashion. Already…
Tate Taylor takes on the unenviable task of adapting a bestselling novel, by bringing Paula Hawkins immensely popular The Girl on the Train to the silver screen – and he’s done so in an accomplished, if somewhat underwhelming fashion. Already changing the film’s location from London to New York, the lead role of Rachel Wilson does, however, remain British – a seemingly trivial detail but one that actually serves the narrative well, increasing the vulnerability in her demeanour; setting…
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The Leftovers has been a journey unlike anything else we’ve seen on television. It’s not just a stellar HBO drama steeped in otherworldly, pitch black fantasy, but also a meditation on life, death and loss.
Last Sunday’s penultimate episode…
The Leftovers has been a journey unlike anything else we’ve seen on television. It’s not just a stellar HBO drama steeped in otherworldly, pitch black fantasy, but also a meditation on life, death and loss.
Last Sunday’s penultimate episode “The Most Powerful Man in the World (and His Identical Twin Brother)” saw Kevin’s (Justin Theroux) seemingly final trip to the afterlife, or is it a sort of crazed purgatory that he encapsulates himself in? The death counter
on Kevin has reached its…
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*Spoiler warning, do not read if you haven’t watched Season 2: Episode 7 – “A Most Powerful Adversary.”*
It’s been a hard road for Kevin Garvey; the dark, possibly psychotic main character of HBO’s The Leftovers. In last week’s episode, “A…
*Spoiler warning, do not read if you haven’t watched Season 2: Episode 7 – “A Most Powerful Adversary.”*
It’s been a hard road for Kevin Garvey; the dark, possibly psychotic main character of HBO’s The Leftovers. In last week’s episode, “A Most Powerful Adversary”, Kevin (Justin Theroux) began the day handcuffed to his bed. A last-ditch effort for Nora Durst (Carrie Coon) to feel safe and stop him from sleep walking around Jarden “Miracle”, Texas. Only the audience, and the…
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