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Movie Review – Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

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Little Shop of Horrors, 1986. Directed by Frank Oz. Starring Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Vincent Gardenia and Steve Martin. SYNOPSIS: A little shop becomes exceptionally successful after flower shop assistant Seymour finds an alien plant. But the cost of fame, fortune and love may be a little too high… In an era whereby Avenue Q and Book […]

Jessie Usher joins Liam Hemsworth and Jeff Goldblum in Independence Day 2

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Casting is now officially underway on the upcoming sequel to Independence Day, with Heat Vision reporting that Jessie Usher (Survivor’s Remorse) has joined the follow-up to the 1996 alien invasion blockbuster and will play the son of Will Smith’s character from the original. Smith himself has declined the opportunity to reprise his role as Captain […]

Hugh Jackman thinks “there is a possibility” that Wolverine could join the Marvel Cinematic Universe

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Before the big announcement between Sony and Marvel Studios concerning Spider-Man and his upcoming debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it seemed a pipe dream that we’d ever see the wall-crawler teaming up with the Avengers on the big screen. Well, as we now know, Spider-Man is set to join the MCU in next year’s […]

A response to Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and directors who might be jealous of comic book movies

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Anthony Stokes with a response to Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and directors who might be jealous of comic book movies… We’re in the age of cinema that focuses on comic book movies and as such everybody is talking about them, even big powerhouse directors. Some, like Kenneth Branagh and Paul Thomas Anderson, speak positively of them. […]

Why does Spider-Man have to be black?

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Anghus Houvouras on the casting of the new Spider-Man… The notion of diversity in the superhero world isn’t nearly as black and white as some would have you believe. From the very moment we learned Sony got wise and agreed to share Spider-Man with Marvel, finally placing everyone’s favorite wall-crawler into the shared Marvel Cinematic […]

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel dethrones Fifty Shades of Grey at the UK box office

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UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 27th February to Sunday 1st March 2015… After two weeks atop the UK box office chart, Universal’s Fifty Shades of Grey has been knocked into second place by the comedy sequel The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, which opened with £3,771,852, including £705,000 […]

Dylan O’Brien addresses the Spider-Man casting rumours, “I haven’t heard anything about it”

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When the announcement came that Spider-Man had joined the ranks of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it was only a matter of time before casting speculation started to run its course. The first couple of names to be thrown into the mix by some websites was Logan Lerman (Fury) and Dylan O’Brien (The Mazer Runner), stating […]

The Fault in our Stars writers to pen new John Green adaptation Looking for Alaska

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After having great success with (500) Days of Summer, The Spectacular Now (still criminally without a scheduled UK release) and last year’s box-office hit The Fault in our Stars, writers Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber are hot writing property in Hollywood right now, and the pair have settled on their next gig. The writing […]

Billy Dee Williams reportedly set for “a fun cameo” in Star Wars: Episode VIII

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When the cast of Star Wars: The Force Awakens was announced, one character absent from the list of returnees to the galaxy far, far away was that of Billy Dee Williams, who played Lando Calrissian in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Recently, Williams – who has reprised the role for an […]