Hot off the heels of Pokèmon Detective Pikachu, Ryan Reynolds is back in another video game-based movie about a non-playable character who works as a bank teller and becomes self aware. He soon realises he lives in a video game world.Read More
Sound of Metal is the directorial feature debut by Darius Marder, co-written with his brother Abraham Marder. His past work includes a screenwriting credit for The Place Beyond The Pines, a sometimes overlooked neo-noir masterpiece from 2012 starring Bradley Cooper and Ryan Gosling. The excitement around this film has been building to a substantial buzz […]Read More
Park your broomsticks and fire up your cauldrons, the trailer for The Craft sequel has been conjured. Directed and written by Zoe Lister-Jones and produced by Blumhouse Productions and Red Wagon Entertainment, The Craft: Legacy continues 20 years after the original. Similar to the original, The Craft: Legacy follows Hannah (Cailee Spaeny) as she moves […]Read More
Amazon Prime Video has released a trailer for upcoming horror movie Evil Eye, produced by Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Jason Blum. Adapted by Madhuri Shekar’s audio play of the same name, Evil Eye examines themes of myth and reincarnation through an Indian-American lens. The cast stars Sarita Choudhury (Mississippi Masala, Jessica Jones), Sunita Mani (Mr. […]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
Based on Florian Zeller’s 2012 play La Père, the film stars acting royalty Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman (she was in The Crown, after all). The Father sees Anthony Hopkins play (a handily named) Anthony, who is struggling with the harsh reality of ageing and serious memory loss caused by dementia, while Olivia Colman plays […]Read More
Themes of identity and connection abound in the trailer for Monsoon, released on 25 September. The film stars Henry Golding as Kit, a British-Vietnamese man who returns to Vietnam for the first time since he was forced to leave at age 8. He now finds himself disconnected from the country, a stranger in his own […]Read More
Dune boasts an ensemble cast including Timothée Chalamet & Rebecca Ferguson, and will be released in the UK on the 18th December.Read More
NEON has released a new trailer for Brandon Cronenberg’s sci-fi thriller. Possessor: Uncut follows the elite corporate assassin Vos, who uses brain-implant technology to take control of other people’s bodies and execute high-profile targets. As she sinks deeper into her latest assignment, Vos becomes trapped inside a mind that threatens to obliterate her. Possessor premiered at Sundance Film […]Read More
On 17 August, a trailer was released for the upcoming film Blackbird, produced by Screen Media Films. The drama is directed by Roger Mitchell (Notting Hill, Le Week-End, My Cousin Rachel) with a screenplay from Christopher Torpe (Deliver Us, Rita, The Mist). Blackbird will tells the story of Lily (Susan Sarandon) who, having found out […]Read More
On October 27, 2015, Aziah ‘Zola’ Wells opened a Twitter thread with the infamous words “y’all wanna hear a story?” 148 tweets and five years later, the epic saga of her nightmare road-trip to Florida is coming to our screens. On Thursday 6 August, distribution company A24 released the first teaser trailer for the film, […]Read More
The powerful trailer for the new Shaka King film Judas and the Black Messiah, released last Friday, has already garnered almost one million views on YouTube. The film marks King’s studio feature film directorial debut and centres around Chairman Fred Hampton, the leader of the Illinois Black Panther Party in 1968, and the true story […]Read More
A trip to the cinema might still be an unnecessary health risk, but that doesn’t mean we have to suffer for a lack of quality film releases. Just last week it was announced that director Channing Godfrey Peoples’ debut feature film, Miss Juneteenth, has been picked up by Vertigo for distribution in the UK and […]Read More
Following on from a series of music biopics in recent years including Bohemian Rhapsody, Rocketman and the James Brown-focused Get On Up, the life of the late Aretha Franklin will be given the big screen treatment in the Jennifer Hudson-starring Respect. Due for release in January 2021, Respect will focus on Franklin’s rise to fame, […]Read More
Coming to Netflix this autumn, this new animated musical directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Glen Keane has taken my breath away with the first trailer. Inspired by the Chinese myth of the Moon Goddess Chang’e and with music by Steven Price, this feature film looks like just the kind of thing I would like my future […]Read More
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