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Anya Taylor-Joy set to headline Netflix adaptation How to Kill Your Family

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Anya Taylor-Joy is set to team with Netflix once again for an adaptation of Bella Mackie’s bestselling novel How to Kill Your Family.  Per Deadline’s report the Max Max: Furiosa star is set to play the book’s protagonist, Grace Bernard,  who decides to exact revenge on her absentee millionaire father following her dying mother’s pleas […]

Tactical stealth adventure The Stone of Madness escaping onto PC and consoles early 2025

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Publisher Tripwire and developer The Game Kitchen (Blasphemous and Blasphemous 2) have announced they will be releasing The Stone of Madness, a new tactical stealth adventure onto PC and consoles in early 2025. This new adventure will have players follow five prisoners in their attempt to escape an 18th century Spanish asylum.  Watch the new trailer […]

Trailer for rom-com Plan B starring Jon Heder and Jamie Lee

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Quiver Distribution has a poster and trailer for Plan B, the romantic comedy from director Brandon Tamburri. Jamie Lee stars as Piper, a young woman who discovers she is pregnant after a one night stand she’d rather forget with her awkward neighbour Evan (Jon Heder), and thinks up a diabolical plan to trick a successful […]

Mario Kart comes to LEGO’s Super Mario theme with official set reveals

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Mario Kart is coming to LEGO’s Super Mario theme, and today at Gamescom The LEGO Group has officially unveiled the first six Super Mario: Mario Kart sets, which includes some of  the iconic Nintendo video game franchise’s favourite characters – Baby Mario, Baby Luigi, Yoshi, Donkey Kong, Toad, and Baby Peach, along with customisable carts. […]

Warhammer – Vermintide 2: Versus Open Beta available for all to try

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Fatshark has today announced that the Open Beta for the long-anticipated Warhammer – Vermintide 2: Versus is now available on Steam for anyone to play, even if you don’t own Vermintide 2. Versus is a new asymmetric PvP+E game mode that allows for an entirely new way to play.  Watch the new trailer below… This new […]

Netflix shares trailer, poster and images for The Piano Lesson

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Netflix has shared a poster and trailer for director Malcolm Washington’s feature debut The Piano Lesson. Based on August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize winning play, the drama tells the story of a battle between siblings, and the attempted mediation efforts of their uncle, as they each have their own idea of what should be done with […]

The War Doctor faces Morbius the Mighty in new Doctor Who audio adventure from Big Finish

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Big Finish has announced the release of a new full-cast Doctor Who audio adventure for the War Doctor in The War Doctor Rises: Morbius the Mighty. This is the first box set in the new series, The War Doctor Rises.  In Morbius the Mighty (written by Tim Foley) the Time War between the Daleks and Time Lords continues while a […]

Gaming gets animated with Prime Video’s Secret Level teaser trailer

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Prime Video has shared a teaser trailer and key art for Secret Level, the adult animated anthology series from the minds behind Love, Death + Robots, which tells 15 stories set in the world of beloved video games; check it out here… SECRET LEVEL is a new adult-animated anthology series featuring original stories set within […]

Travis Kelce tapped for cameo in Adam Sandler’s Happy Gilmore 2

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Adam Sandler has always mixed sports with his comedy films, so it makes sense that he’s approaching one of football’s biggest stars for Happy Gilmore 2. The filmmaker and actor is writing the sequel with original co-writer Tim Herlihy, and they’ve tapped the Kansas City Chiefs’ Travis Kelce. Sandler was recently on The Tonight Show […]