When news broke last week that seminal sci-fi thriller The Matrix was being revamped there was a mixed reception to the news: some thought the idea was preposterous and that such a work of brilliance should not be remake while others had some positive reactions to the news and thought that a new version, in whatever form, would be a worthwhile endeavour.

Additionally, Zak Penn, scribe behind such films as X-Men: The Last Stand and Steven Spielberg’s upcoming Ready Player One, was in talks…
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Zack Snyder’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice has passed $800 million worldwide. The domestic box office stands at $301.2 million, with the international box office at $500.5 million, for a global total of $801.7 million.

It will be interesting to see where this film ends up – likely just short of the $1 billion mark which Warner Bros. was presumably aiming for as a minimum. This weekend will be an important one for the super-sized, superhero flick, if it’s going to have any hope of…
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Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt are among two of the biggest movie stars in the world right now. The two will both be starring in Morten Tyldum’s new sci-fi adventure Passengers, which Sony discussed at CinemaCon.
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Despite making an appearance in one of Marvel’s ‘One Shot’ short films, Scoot McNairy has made the transition to DC in a big way with the fast-approaching Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.
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Director Richard Linklater has made some of the most interesting films of the last decade or two: his brilliant coming-of-age dramedy Everybody Wants Some was one of last year’s most revered films while his Before… Trilogy has gathered many an admirer over the years since its inception and remains to this day the great example of a romance film of the last two decades. And, of course, who doesn’t love School of Rock?

For his new endeavour, Linklater turns his attention to 1973 film The…
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“You’re going to have to set your Zack Snyder tolerance levels to their highest setting to get any joy out of this movie”…
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Thirty years after they served together in Vietnam, a former Navy Corps medic Larry “Doc” Shepherd re-unites with his old buddies, ex-Marine Sal Nealon and Reverend Richard Mueller, to bury his son, a young Marine killed in the Iraq War.
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Fearing the actions of Superman are left unchecked, Batman takes on the man of steel, while the world wrestles with what kind of a hero it really needs. With Batman and Superman fighting each other, a new threat, Doomsday, is created by Lex Luthor. It’s up to Superman and Batman to set aside their differences along with Wonder Woman to stop Lex Luthor and Doomsday from destroying Metropolis.
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