Contagion director Steven Soderbergh is reuniting with the film’s screenwriter for a “philosophical” sequel to the original 2011 movie Contagion? That’ll never catch on Despite being nine years old, Contagion returned with a vengeance as one of the most discussed films of 2020. The reason behind the pandemic thriller spreading like a virus was, well […]Read More
Stemming the misery of 2020, if only for a moment, the Disney Investor Day was truly a day to behold, with truckloads upon truckloads of new content announced to look forward to in the coming years. But in the stream of new faces added to the MCU in shows like Moonknight and Ms Marvel, it […]Read More
After countless films have been delayed thanks to COVID-19, the arrival of a new one feels like a momentous occasion—even for standard ‘Netflick’ fare. So, I went into Ava with no expectations other than ‘woo new film!’. I should have just stuck with an old one. Ava follows Jessica Chastain as the titular assassin who, […]Read More
Despite winning an Oscar earlier this year, Joaquin Phoenix isn’t showing any signs of slowing down. The star of 2019’s Joker is rumoured to be in talks to star in the latest horror film from Hereditary and Midsommar director Ari Aster, titled Beau is Afraid. While Ari Aster does only have two feature films to […]Read More
Life has been hard enough at the moment, but it looks like Spike Lee is in the market for making it even harder with his latest project: a musical about everyone’s favourite impotence drug, Viagra. A stark change from Lee’s last film Da 5 Bloods, the musical is based on the David Kushner Esquire article All Rise: The […]Read More
Back at the start of 2019 (before the literal personification of hell that is 2020), if you told me that my favourite film of the year would come from a director I had never heard of and be centered around two lesbians in a forbidden romance, I would have politely said: “Jog on, Endgame comes […]Read More
In space, no one may be able to hear you scream, but you can certainly see some high-quality content. Adam Sandler is the latest star to break orbit with a new Netflix space drama. It’s finally happening. Sandler has been a pair of twins, a cowboy and an Oscar-snubbed actor, so the only next step […]Read More
When it comes to me and the Mad Max: Fury Road director, the similarities start and end with us both being called George. And I won’t lie, I’m happy with that. Fury Road was one of the best films of 2015 with its beautiful art style and high-octane action, making for a triumphant return to […]Read More
The star of hit shows like Grey’s Anatomy and Killing Eve, Sandra Oh, looks to have found her next project in Iris K. Shim’s upcoming supernatural horror film Umma. The film centres around Amanda (Oh) and her daughter who, while living a quiet life on an American farm, receive the remains of her estranged mother […]Read More
In July of last year, before all the horrors of 2020 were unleashed on the world, Amazon released a little show called The Boys. Extreme violence, dark humour, and a subversion of the superhero genre made the show an instant hit and one of the tentpole shows for Amazon Prime. Since its release, The Boys has had everyone […]Read More
Back in April mxmtoon kicked off a two-part EP with Dawn – a project filled with optimism and hope for the future, embracing the unexpected. The artist is now back with second part, Dusk, which subverts those emotions, exploring the cyclical human experience and how everything eventually comes back around. In a year as hectic as […]Read More
When I heard that Steven Yeun was starring in a new film set on a farm, I thought it was a dark return to the less than stellar second season of The Walking Dead. Turns out it’s something much better. Film Twitter darling A24 is back with yet another release, the Korean-American drama Minari. From […]Read More
From the studio that brought you films like Hereditary, The Witch and Midsommar comes A24’s latest delve into the horror genre: Saint Maud, a film that ditches the occult for something altogether more sinister. The directorial debut of Rose Glass, Saint Maud follows reclusive nurse Maud (Morfydd Clark) who, after an unknown incident, begins to […]Read More
In an industry-shaking move, Microsoft has bought ZeniMax Media, the parent company of Bethesda, for a massive $7.5 billion. But just how much does this change things? With the console wars reaching a near fever pitch it is no surprise that both Sony and Microsoft are fuelling the fire in an attempt to get fans […]Read More
After a six-year hiatus, David Fincher (Se7en, Fight Club, The Social Network, Gone Girl) is set to make a return to the big screen with his latest release Mank. Starring Gary Oldman and Amanda Seyfried, Mank follows the life of Herman Mankiewicz (Oldman) as he races to finish the screenplay for Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane. […]Read More
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